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Mideast investors buy more into Europe real estate in Q2
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 11 - 09 - 2012

JEDDAH – Middle East real estate investors accounted for 12 percent of the European market in the second quarter of 2012, according to the latest research from CBRE, the world's largest commercial real estate services firm with head office in Los Angeles, California.
Non-European real estate investors, in total, accounted for 25 percent of the European market in the second quarter of 2012 (Q2 2012), the highest proportion since Q2 2007, before the financial crisis.
The amount of buying activity from North American real estate investors remains high, but 2012 has also seen a significant increase in activity by buyers from Asia and Latin America, particularly in Q2 2012.
Total real estate investment activity contracted slightly to €24.3 billion in Q2 2012, a drop of 5 percent compared to Q1 2012 and 9 percent below the total for Q2 2011. Despite this, the amount of cross-border investment was higher, both as a percentage (making up 46 percent of the total) and in absolute terms. Although the level of investment flows between European countries increased slightly, the big driver of the growth in cross-border investment was acquisitions by buyers from outside Europe.
Nicholas Maclean, Managing Director, CBRE Middle East, said: “European property markets and infrastructure continues to prove interesting for Middle East investors. What we are likely to see going forward, however, is co-investment activity particularly involving Middle Eastern sovereign funds and Chinese state or quasi state investors."
The significance of direct real estate investment by non-European buyers is in the relatively small number of markets that they have tended to target, with 62 percent of the cross-regional investment in H1 2012 going to the United Kingdom (UK) and a further 27 percent going to France and Germany.
North American investors were more diversified than other cross-regional buyers, with London accounting for only 28 percent of acquisitions while markets in Germany, France, Sweden as well as the rest of the UK accounted for most of the remainder.
Investment from Asia has been steadily increasing since 2011, but has been limited almost entirely to London and Paris, with a small number of direct transactions elsewhere in Europe.
Capital flows between European countries remain high despite the eurozone crisis. However, it is notable that the UK was the largest single destination for this intra-regional investment and Germany accounted for nearly half the total, showing a strong bias in favor of ‘safe haven' destinations.
Non-European investors also targeted the largest lot sizes available in Europe. Whereas the average transaction size in Europe was around €27 million, domestic investors were over-represented in the smaller transactions, with an average deal size of €22 million. The average transaction by a Europe-based, cross-border investor was significantly larger at €56 million, while non-European investors typically targeted the very largest transactions, with an average lot size of €79 million.
Jonathan Hull, Head of EMEA Capital Markets, CBRE, said: “Non-European real estate investors are currently dominating the markets in which they are active. All of the ten largest transactions in London in H1 2012 went to foreign investors, with nine of those deals from outside Europe. Cross-regional investors now have a significant influence on pricing in the European market, particularly for the prime product that is in demand." – SG


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