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MANCHESTER Contents 2020 FORECAST UNITED KINGDOM MANCHESTER Contents Ten trends you need to know about for 2020 #1 Lower for longer p4 #8 AI p18 How investors are dealing with a low inflation, low interest rate world – and Augmented intelligence? Your new best friend could be your cobot, a whether they should be concerned about the possibility of a downturn. collaborative robot who will make your life easier by helping you work quicker – and smarter. #2 Power to the people p6 #9 Wishing well p20 Landlords, developers and occupiers need to pay increasing attention to local Wellness is the new front in the war for talent, and buildings have a huge part political activism, as today’s street protests increasingly signal tomorrow’s to play in supporting companies’ efforts to look after their staff. policy initiatives. #3 (De)globalization p8 #10 Heavy lifting p22 The pace of globalization is slowing, and in some areas is starting to reverse as Logistics is currently a labor-intensive business, and the sector is facing the nearshoring and the localization of supply chains gathers momentum. twin challenges of staff shortages and a growing volume of e-commerce product returns. #4 Building resilience p10 And finally… Future growth p24 Cities across the world are leading the charge in responding to climate change, With political and social easing over cannabis leading to policy changes to ensure economic, social and environmental sustainability. worldwide, medical legalization presents the real estate industry with new opportunities in 2020. #5 (Place)making an impact p12 Sources p26 Placemaking creates great environments for people, organizations and communities. It is becoming the focus of socially responsible investors looking for impact investment opportunities. National and local property market outlooks #6 The rebirth of retail p14 United Kingdom market outlook p30 Urban design initiatives, an explosion of technology-fuelled experiential retail Despite a number of years of Brexit-related uncertainty, fundamentals around and the emergence of new omni-channel strategies give an insight into the the office and industrial sectors continue to be robust. Meanwhile the future of physical retail. search for income becomes increasingly challenging, with investors bidding aggressively for assets that offer long-term secure income. #7 Let’s talk about flex p16 Manchester market outlook p36 Forget what you may have read in the newspapers, flexible offices are here to Our 2020 Forecast for local real estate market activity, examining key drivers stay and will remain one of real estate’s hottest growth areas in 2020. and likely trends across the major commercial real estate sectors. © 2020 AVISON YOUNG (CANADA) INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. So, what’s the answer for real estate? Avoid investing at these They bring new challenges, but also new opportunities to historically high prices? We think not, for several reasons. create sustainable long-term value in the built environment8. Those who accurately detect the current shifting of the tides, First, while risks are apparent, a significant recession does and swim with the stream rather than against it, will prosper. not look imminent. Downturns are most often triggered by interest rate rises, following a bout of inflation due to The search for yield continues. Indeed, further yield excessive growth, which is hardly the case at present6. Shocks compression is expected on secure, long-duration assets are always a possibility – but the risk of an all-out trade war that still look attractively priced relative to fixed income. But seems to be receding. Markets may fluctuate, but a huge investors need to enter the market with their eyes wide open pool of Asian capital lies waiting to invest in good quality to the potential downsides, and with clear strategies in place to assets when the opportunity arises, which will help provide weather the turbulence that may be lurking over the horizon. a floor for values7. Conditions hardly appear “set fair” but the external drivers pushing investors towards real estate are likely to remain in place for a while yet. Second, in most markets there are few signs of overbuilding or “irrational exuberance” On the surface it’s a great in the structuring and financing of real estate transactions. The environment for property triggers for the periodic self-destruction that characterised many previous real estate cycles are largely absent. Real estate investing; low interest #1 remains vulnerable to economic and political events, globally and at home, but the same is true of other asset classes. Income rates offer a warm bath is king, so investors should go “back to basics” with a laser focus for real estate, keeping it on managing properties and tenants well, and stress-testing their financing against future turmoil in the credit markets. competitive against other Lower for Third, savvy investors are seeking out new channels of asset classes opportunity. Climate change, impact investing, placemaking, the technological revolution and a host of other issues are longer reshaping our economies and cities. 12 MONTH ROLLING GLOBAL INVESTMENT VOLUME 1.2 Investment volume LIVING WITH LOW INTEREST RATES (U.S.$ trillion) Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 1.0 With inflation seemingly nailed to the floor across most of the western world, there are few signs that interest rates are set to rise any time soon1. “Lower for (even) longer” remains the mantra for investors. 0.8 On the surface it’s a great environment for property investing; A slowing global economy, with few signs of a sustained low interest rates offer a warm bath for real estate, keeping pickup in global trade, will impact occupier demand. it competitive against other asset classes2. Capital continues Productivity growth has been low and while unemployment 0.6 to flow into the sector, as investors seek out the unique levels have fallen sharply in many countries, inflation has not combination of income return and capital preservation that real risen meaningfully4. 3 estate offers over time . 0.4 Central banks currently have little ability to raise interest But with the real estate cycle slipping into its second decade, rates, robbing them of room to manoeuvre if – or more likely the uncertainty felt by many investors about whether current when – a slowdown turns into a recession5. With governments pricing is sustainable seems justified. Real estate might be seemingly devoid of effective policy initiatives, the impact on 0.2 enjoying an extended period of popularity, but in large part rental income in the event of a protracted recession could be this is due to the backdrop of economic weakness (hence low significant and prolonged. interest rates) and heightened political uncertainty across the 0.0 globe – issues which also bring risks for the property sector. 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Source: Real Capital Analytics 4 | AVISON YOUNG 2020 FORECAST | TEN FOR TWENTY © 2020 AVISON YOUNG (CANADA) INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Where the shift in position is measured, thoughtful and Economists may continue to debate the effectiveness of such strategic in nature, this process should be welcomed. However measures – the research evidence is mixed6 - but landlords are unpalatable the rhetoric may be to some, this is democracy in left dealing with the immediate impact on the market. action: politicians responding to the “will of the people”. But Cities will also continue to take the lead on climate change, problems can arise when knee-jerk policies are introduced to bypassing central government inertia on the topic. CDP, a tackle specific issues, not recognizing – or wilfully ignoring – non-profit organization, which supports environmental the unintended consequences that may follow. reporting by cities and corporates, notes that five cities Real estate often finds itself caught up in this process, which is including Paris, San Francisco and Canberra have set 100% increasingly playing out on the local rather than national stage. renewable energy targets city-wide, while thirteen cities City authorities are stepping in where central governments including Boston and Sydney plan to be climate or carbon fear to tread. Housing affordability is a case in point: Berlin has neutral by 20507. #2 already announced a residential rent freeze for five years and Whatever their views on the issues concerned or the New York has expanded its housing rent controls to cover effectiveness of particular policies, landlords, developers around one million units4. In London, Mayor Sadiq Khan intends and occupiers need to pay increasing attention to local to make rent controls a cornerstone of his 2020 re-election political activism, as today’s street protests increasingly signal campaign5. Power to tomorrow’s policy initiatives. Landlords, developers and occupiers need to pay increasing the people attention to local political activism, as today’s street protests increasingly signal tomorrow’s policy initiatives HOW POPULISM IS CHANGING THE WORLD AVERAGE VOTE SHARE OF POPULIST PARTIES IN ELECTIONS ACROSS EUROPE 23 % With the U.S. in election mode, Britain still struggling with Brexit negotiations and discontent still rife across huge 22 swathes of the global political landscape, 2020 will be another year when the fallout from populism will be distracting 21 governments from attending to some of its root causes. 20 When the Developed World Populism Index concluded in 2017 This explains why populism often creates coalitions which 19 that populism was at its highest levels since the late 1930s1, transcend conventional political divides; the far Right and many feared an impending avalanche of political extremism. far Left coalesce around something they have in common, 18 The successes of U.S President Trump and Nigel Farage, leader albeit for different reasons - politics does indeed make strange 17 of the U.K.’s Brexit Party, gave new impetus to the populist bedfellows. If anything, the range and strength of populist 16 coalitions emerging across a range of countries – but a series groups is increasing.
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