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Office vacancy has reached a record high for properties in central business districts. Forms of compensation to attract people back to offices could include improved mass transit and reduced travel time.  

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Cities that ride booms and busts in commodity prices have in the past achieved strong outperformance in commercial-property returns during booms. Has the recent surge in commodity prices had a similar impact on returns? 

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As a long-time champion of market transparency, MSCI has sought to shed light on real estate for institutional investors, portfolio managers and risk professionals across the globe.

MSCI Real Estate Portfolio Services provides global market and portfolio analytics that fit your view of the real estate investment world, allowing you to see and evaluate the total performance of your entire real estate portfolio, and how you’re managing it.

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Student housing continues to evolve as a distinct asset type. The sector outperformed the rest of the U.K. residential sector as well as the retail and office sectors over the three, five and 10 years ending December 2022.

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MSCI Global Annual Property Index tracks the unlevered performance of over 57,000 property investments in 27 countries, with a total capital value of USD 2,144.7 billion.

The quarterly markets of USA, UK, Australia, Netherlands, Canada and Ireland have higher weights in the samples.

A comparison between the 12 month Mar 2022 Total Return and Dec 2021 2-year annualized Total Returns indicates a trend of widening spreads.