Investors from the Gulf Cooperation Council, or GCC, are choosing to increasingly look beyond Africa’s traditionally attractive sectors – including energy and agriculture – to focus on the opportunities available in its property markets, which are characterised by a great deal of volatility, but also the potential for massive returns. The GCC is comprised of…
GCC investors have continued their steady stream of European real estate acquisitions despite the market destabilisation caused by Brexit and recent terrorist attacks on European soil. Investors from the small, oil-rich nation are focused mainly on hospitality assets in key markets. They have been dubbed “the hottest source of investment funds for the acquisitions of…
Middle Eastern investors remain active in the US real estate market, but are turning their focus away from the traditional investment magnets of Manhattan and Los Angeles to focus on non-mainstream opportunities in gateway and secondary markets, where both the prices and the competition for good opportunities are relatively low. This was recently exemplified by…