Future research opportunities for Asian real estate

ABSTRACT

Recent years have seen considerable growth in the Asian real estate markets; for both the developed and emerging markets. This has given rise to exciting research opportunities in many areas of Asian real estate; where often these markets have unique real estate characteristics that need to be more fully understood. This has been further supported by the improved quality of real estate information for these Asian markets. This paper will review some of these research opportunities for Asian real estate; these opportunities will cover real estate market dynamics, alternate real estate sectors, REITs, development sites, real estate transparency, real estate in emerging markets, infrastructure, sustainability and the changing nature of work and real estate. The critical research issues in achieving this research agenda are also identified.

KEYWORDS:

• Asian real estate
• emerging markets
• developed markets
• research opportunities
• critical research issues

Acknowledgements

I would like thank my many real estate colleagues from Asia for showing me that research into the Asian real estate markets is important; this includes my colleagues at the University of Hong Kong, National University of Singapore and Western Sydney University. Also thank you to APREA and ANREV for being proactive and assisting my research agenda into the Asian real estate markets.

I would also like to thank the International Journal of Urban Sciences for sponsoring this paper at the 2018 Asian Real Estate Society (AsRES) Conference in July 2018 in Incheon, South Korea. Also thank you to the panel members at the AsRES conference, Jung Won Son (UCL), Qiulin Ke (UCL), Rose Lai (University of Macau) and Kwan Ok Lee (NUS) for their helpful and constructive feedback on the paper.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.