Are pandemic changes in property markets temporary or permanent?

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The question most relevant to global listed real estate at present is whether the pandemic temporarily or permanently changes the way the economy utilises real estate and/or simply reinforces pre-existing secular trends?

While this may be interminably complex, overall we feel it's more the latter. Through necessity, many of us have rapidly incorporated existing technologies to communicate and complete tasks, accelerating what otherwise would have taken several years to adopt. The global listed real estate investable universe offers exposure to a wide range of underlying property types including emerging sectors such as life sciences, logistics, data centres and cell towers which are benefiting from ‘new economy' secular growth trends.  Another protected type of office space is life sciences, with prop...

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