Real estate survey 2010: It’s all about Asia

Asia’s property markets avoided the worst of the global financial crisis and Chinese buyers are leading the way in global commercial real estate turnover, even as the country’s domestic property market struggles with the fallout from overheating. Joti Mangat reports.

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CHINESE BUYERS ARE driving global commercial real estate turnover, albeit in their local markets. Chinese funds make up more than 90% of the top 10 most active buyers by global deal volume, with $48.3 billion of reported acquisitions, according to Real Capital Analytics, a US-based data provider. Blackstone is the only western fund to feature in the Real Capital Analytics Most Active Buyers table, with $4.1