Investors may well have expected a decline in real estate pricing and an increase in distressed opportunities due to the economic impact of 2020’s global lockdowns. But the hit to pricing was mostly negligible, and the flood of distressed assets never came.

A robust, reliable overview of the sector in changing and challenging times. MSCI began systematically estimating the size of professionally managed real estate investment markets in 2004.

MSCI began systematically estimating the size of professionally managed real estate investment markets in 2004. These estimates are fundamental to the creation of the MSCI Global Annual Property Index and a range of other multinational indexes and benchmarks, and they provide insights into the coverage of MSCI’s direct property indexes. This paper sets out the 2019 market size estimates and explains the main changes between 2018 and 2019.