Real estate: A false sense of security

Investors can’t get enough of real estate. But property developers should get ready for the wall of money to shift to emerging markets.

The amount of money in property is staggering: the total invested stock of real estate worldwide is $7.98 trillion. But despite the sector’s size, the total investment allocated to it exceeds the amount it can digest by some margin. Investors simply can’t get enough of this asset class.

The reason for this happy situation is straightforward: real estate has outperformed just about every other asset class by any measure in recent years and has acted as an attractive alternative for institutional money looking to move out of equities.

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