Global investors shrug off Evergrande’s woes and welcome a new link to China’s onshore bond market.

A consensus that Evergrande’s failure will be more like the LTCM unwind than the Lehman bankruptcy could underplay ongoing challenges in hedging Chinese exposure.

Global investors want to know if troubled Chinese developer Evergrande can meet its bond repayments – but far bigger risks exist, from local government bond defaults to badly run banks exposed to overleveraged developers.

Evergrande is in trouble, drowning in debt and besieged by angry investors. It is bad news for shareholders, but it also raises harder and darker questions about investing in China.

Covid-19-fuelled supply chain disruption is helping to funnel global real estate demand to residential, life sciences and logistics.

Ever since the launch of Vision 2030, housing has been a key priority for Saudi Arabia. Along with the home building has come a vibrant mortgage market, the formation of a secondary liquidity provider and the building blocks that will lead to a new securitized asset class in global markets.

Real estate investment trusts are the mainstay of Singapore listings, a rare example of liquidity and foreign interest in an otherwise dull local bourse. Two contrasting mergers tell intriguing stories about where the Reit market goes from here.

Nothing in China is straightforward, but everything happens for a reason.

The Euromoney Real Estate Survey 2020 is our 16th annual survey of the global real estate markets and canvasses the opinions of the leading firms involved in the real estate sector worldwide.

The long lines that have appeared outside reopened retail stores will not be enough to stave off the inevitable crisis in commercial real estate.

China has moved closer to approving its first onshore real estate investment trusts. When tax and gearing issues are overcome, the market could overtake the US to be the world’s largest, bankers say.

Mindspace hopes to raise more than $150 million in IPO slated for the end of March; more Reit sales to follow in Mumbai during the next 18 months.

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The Euromoney Real Estate Survey 2019 is our 15th annual survey of the global real estate markets and canvasses the opinions of the leading firms involved in the real estate sector worldwide.

OUE real-estate investment trust (Reit) merger follows Viva-ESR; hope is to create better liquidity in stocks.

India’s first real estate investment trust is being fast-tracked to IPO before the end of February. Bankers expect the primary offering to raise more than $1 billion, giving a much-needed fillip to the country’s capital markets.

After a few years of underperformance, India’s property market is back on form. Prices are rising in commercial and residential real estate, with demand driven in large part by inward investment from blue-chip US corporates. The next big step is listed onshore real estate investment trusts, set to hit the market in 2019.

Thirty-year mortgages on houses in cyclone, wildfire, flood and drought zones? Systemic risk is building.

Banks and non-banks are battling for market share in a property market that finally seems to be slowing down in the face of multiple headwinds.

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Private real estate debt is growing, as is the range of approaches that funds are taking to this asset class.

As we drift towards the end of the year, conferences seem to be full of panels on asset allocation for the 12 months ahead: sometimes a bold investor will go so far as to say what they invest in themselves; sometimes that’s a surprise.

As jitters about the future of high-street retail in the US and beyond prompt property investors to pare their exposure to the sector, Brookfield Property Group, one of the world’s largest, is busy ramping up.

Investment in logistics assets is on the up, while interest in retail properties seems to be on the slide, dragged down by the sense that they are the past, not the future. But bricks and mortar may yet have some bounce in it.

Euromoney magazine has released the results of the 2017 Real Estate Survey.

Find out which companies are rated the best developers, advisors and banks in global real estate in the latest instalment of Euromoney’s Real Estate Awards.

UK councils are investing in commercial real estate in an attempt to plug their budget gaps, driven by cheap borrowing from central government. It could spell trouble for the sector.

UK commercial real estate’s post-Brexit shock has proved short-lived, and high-profile gating of investors in a number of UK real estate funds did not precipitate a flood of copy-cat behaviour. But the long-term outlook for investors and lenders in UK real estate remains extremely uncertain.

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CBRE remains top for advisers, Blackstone takes the lead for investment managers and Goldman Sachs is number one in the banks category