Real Estate Today: A Market Transformation

whitePaper | June 30, 2022

Post-COVID, real estate teams around the world are confronting enormous uncertainties around building occupancy, new usage patterns, and changing employee expectations. Following the massive remote work experiment caused by the pandemic, most employees now want the option to work from home at least part of the time. And especially at the high end of the labor market, employees have never had more leverage than today.

whitePaper | May 31, 2022

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whitePaper | May 24, 2022

As with some other real estate property categories, that reliable performance hit an extended rough patch after the onset of COVID-19. Operators halted or severely restricted property tours and move-ins; prospective residents, worried about serious illness, elected to remain in their homes. The industry’s valuation shrank from $475 billion at the end of 2019 to an estimated $437 billion as of the third quarter of 2021, according to Beth Mace, NIC’s chief economist & director of outreach. Profitability has also declined between 4 percent and 8 percent during the pandemic, estimates Mel Gamzon, principal at Senior Housing Global Advisors.

whitePaper | April 21, 2023

For generations, public markets have been the beating heart of capitalism, reaching their zenith in the latter part of 20th Century, when stock markets in Wall Street, the City of London, Hong Kong, and others were the great centers of capital raising, corporate investment and growth.

whitePaper | December 21, 2022

It was a year that brought market upheavals, geopolitical instability and economic conditions that few could have foreseen. Although 2023 is expected to bring with it some turbulence, at BlackRock Alternatives the outlook for the new year is one of cautious optimism. Near-term uncertainty presents an opportunity for investors to achieve their long-term objectives, by continuing to invest in durable global trends such as the transition to a lowcarbon economy, ever-expanding technology adoption and emerging demographic shifts.

whitePaper | September 15, 2022

With inflation hitting multi-decade highs, central banks in major developed markets have finally been forced to abandon the long-running era of easy monetary policy; interest rate hikes rather than cuts characterise the new regime. At such times, when government bonds are less of a safe haven, investments offering resilience and stable returns are hard to find. Real estate long income offers the potential to deliver on both counts.