Asia-Pacific property market scenario post-pandemic

Singapore remains the top investor preference, as in last year’s report.

GOVERNMENT efforts across the Asia-Pacific to contain the spread of Covid-19 has helped limit its impact on local real-estate markets, according to the executive summary in the Emerging Trends in Real Estate Asia Pacific 2021 report.

At the same time, however, there is a sense that asset values have been propped up by a combination of transient factors – government support programmes, bank forbearance policies and healthy corporate balance sheets – that are unlikely to last.