While patronage-reliant property sectors such as hotel and purpose-built retail were severely battered by the Covid-19 pandemic, the industrial sector continues to be the bright spot in the otherwise gloomy real estate market, said CBRE | WTW group managing director Foo Gee Jen during the virtual press launch of the property consultancy’s Real Estate Market Outlook 2021 report, titled “Restart the Uneven Recovery”, on Jan 25.
According to Foo, regional logistics and warehousing will be a primary prospect for the sector in the long term. “The growing demand for last-mile delivery facilities is in line with the expansion of e-commerce and the expectations of an increasingly sophisticated market,” he said.
At the launch of Rahim & Co’s 2020/2021 market review earlier this week, Rahim & Co real estate agency chief executive officer Siva Shanker said the recent spike in Covid-19 cases has pushed all hopes of a strong market recovery to 2022, at best WITH the recent spike in Covid-19 cases, any projected recovery that had been slated for the local property market for 2021 will likely have been deferred.
However, that is not to say that there aren’t any opportunities to be tapped in a soft property market. At the launch of Rahim & Co’s 2020/2021 market review earlier this week, Rahim & Co real estate agency chief executive officer Siva Shanker said the recent spike in Covid-19 cases has pushed all hopes of a strong market recovery to 2022, at best.