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Real Estate

[New] New housing projects in emerging economies are expected to provide new opportunities for construction globally, with around 270 million new homes needed in China and India alone by 2025 to meet the needs of growing population growth and urbanization trends.
[New] On infrastructure the Lagos-Ibadan Railway, which is to commence in the third quarter of 2020, showed positive impacts on disposable income, growth, external reserves and real estate.
[New] The U.S. economy is expected to sustain its long expansion in 2020, and the commercial real estate market will follow suit.
Chinese steel demand, buoyed by the real estate sector, continued to grow through 2019-however, domestic supply has still outpaced demand, and early projections expect a drop in domestic demand in 2020.
Residents will demand appropriate housing infrastructure, secure public spaces, and modernized public services.
Chinese steel demand strengthened in 2019 because of growth in the real estate sector, but is forecasted to slow down in 2020.
Cambodia's economic growth is projected to reach around 7% by 2020 due to growth in exports, foreign investment inflows, tourism, and construction and real estate, sectors which are expected to enjoy continued growth.
With the IPO releases of a number of tech companies this past year, the real estate industry has predicted a new surge of tech wealth.
The UK Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has pencilled in house growth of 2% for 2020 - but it believes rents will increase at a faster rate of 2.5% as the rental sector struggles with a lack of housing supply.
The World Bank predicts that 40 percent of the world's population will need new housing and basic infrastructure in the next 14 years.
Like many other major cities in the 2020 US housing market, Charlotte is currently suffering from a lack of supply and limited housing inventory: Home prices could continue to rise over the months ahead and into 2020.
Schroders expects the commercial real estate market in the UK to remain strong in 2020, despite some investor and occupier hesitancy as a result of Brexit and the slowdown in economic activity.
Despite US housing market predictions 2020 seemingly pointing to a significant shift in the market to favor buyers, real estate experts do not forecast a buyer's market.
US housing appears poised to take a leading role in real GDP growth over the forecast horizon for the first time in years, further bolstering our modest-but-solid growth forecasts through 2021.
City of Edinburgh Council is the 6th largest landlord in Scotland, providing affordable housing to nearly 20,000 tenants, and has a plan to deliver 20,000 new affordable homes by 2027.
A bounce in UK growth post Brexit could pose policymakers a problem, as it implies higher interest rates which could hinder a housing market recovery.
MLSD announced a plan to nationalize and create jobs for Saudis in three main sectors during 2019-2020, with 80 thousand jobs in real estate and construction and 40 thousand jobs in health, and 15 thousand jobs in IT.
A recent simulation showed that, by 2029, most US middle-class people who are age 65 and older will be unable to afford the housing and health care they need.
Alliance Investments' real estate tokenization plan to tokenize approximately $640 million of real estate projects will occur over the next several years in all parts of the UK with projects ranging from residential and student accommodation to commercial and hospitality properties.
By 2050, over two-thirds of the global population will be urban, challenging cities to meet accelerating demand for affordable housing, well-connected transport systems and other infrastructure and services, as well as jobs.
Going forward, China plans to introduce a new property tax law that could go into effect as soon as 2019, and could decrease the attractiveness of real estate as an investment, depending on its concrete formulation.
The Housing and Development Board (HDB) will start installing Digital Display Panels in housing estates starting next year as part of Singapore's Smart Nation drive.
Modular construction could scale to an industry that represents more than $100 billion in US and European real estate, delivering $20 billion in annual savings.

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Last updated: 15 February 2020