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What is the real estate market size report?
What is the real estate market size report?
We’ve been estimating the size of the global professionally managed real estate investment markets since 2004, bringing transparency to the market with 14 years of historical and global data.
These estimates aim to shed light on how the real estate market is changing year over year and are fundamental to the creation of the MSCI Global Annual Property Index and a range of other multinational indexes and benchmarks.
Key highlights 2019
Key highlights
- Overall market size rose by 4.7% from $8.5 trillion to $8.9 trillion
- China and Germany once again switched places, meaning China replaced Germany as the fourth-largest market
- Following a decline in 2017, the U.S. weighting within the MSCI Global Annual Property Index (Unfrozen; Weighting: Market Size) increased in 2018
- Currency movements decreased the size of the global real estate investment market by approx. -2.6% in U.S. dollars (USD) vs their positive impact in 2017
- MSCI’s index coverage increased by 20 bps globally and by 30 bps within the MSCI Global Annual Property Index (Unfrozen; Weighting: Market Size)
More detailed and user-friendly analysis of the market size estimates over a longer time series is available on MSCI Global Intel.
Real Estate Market Size 2018 report
Real Estate Market Size 2018 report
Annual update on the size of the professionally managed global real estate investment market
Valuations & Sale Price Comparison Report 2018 Results
Valuations & Sale Price Comparison Report 2018 Results
MSCI computes and discloses fair indicators comparing valuations and prices for assets that have come to the open market. Read this year's report
MSCI Global Intel
MSCI Global Intel
Read more about one of the most extensive private real estate databases in the world.