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2021 Real Estate Trends to Watch
Jan 12, 2021 Will RobsonCOVID-19 has caused a severe and rapid economic contraction and accelerated secular changes already hitting parts of the real estate markets. Investors face a fundamental question: How will real estate evolve as a sector and asset class? Here are our 2021 real estate trends to watch.


COVID-19 and Office Income: What Could Lie Ahead?
Nov 25, 2020 Fritz LouwWith new COVID-19 lockdowns and swaths of white-collar workers working from home, many office tenants are contemplating whether the future of work includes office space. This could have significant impact on office demand and income from leases.

MSCI Real Estate Research Snapshot Part 1
Nov 5, 2020Part 1 of this year’s MSCI Real Estate Research Snapshot is a compilation of our research published through the first half of 2020. At the start of the year we suggested that 2020 may prove to be a watershed year in terms of the way investors consider real estate as an asset class. On the face of it, it seems that due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic we may have been right, albeit for entirely different reasons.

Was Infrastructure Solid During COVID-19?
Oct 27, 2020 Will Robson, Niel HarmseInfrastructure investments have not been spared the effects of the pandemic. A closer look across investment types, subsectors and risk levels over time may provide useful perspective as private-capital firms and their investors manage through.

Myths Debunked - Listed and Private Real Estate: Putting the pieces back together
Oct 14, 2020 TEUBEN Bert, LOUW Fritz
Could COVID-19 Topple Global Cities' Dominance?
Oct 13, 2020 Niel HarmseProperty investors turned to global gateway cities to diversify portfolios and generate capital growth in the years since the 2008 global financial crisis. We assess whether COVID-19 could jeopardize the relative dominance of these power cities.

Missed Rents’ Impact on Real Estate
Sep 11, 2020 Bryan Reid, Niel HarmseSome commercial tenants have stopped paying rent amid COVID-19. Without rental income, property funds are not able to pay distributions to shareholders and borrowers cannot service their debt. We analyzed property-fund data to assess the impact on investors.
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