Emerging markets real estate: moving in for the long run

Property continues to be popular. The big sovereign wealth funds appreciate the long-term prospects of developing countries, and have the flexibility to chase opportunities across structures, markets and cycles.

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A Shanghai residential estate

Emerging market real estate is sometimes seen as the playground of speculative capital: the soar and plunge of apartments in Shanghai, São Paulo or Dubai, a regulatory arbitrage here and a fleeting new opportunity there. But what about the investors who are in it for the really long term – the professionals who can ride out the peaks and troughs and look for what the asset class can represent if approached properly?

There are plenty of them.

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