Real estate is one of the few asset classes to provide reasonable positive returns year to date, but is this sustainable? asks Simon Kinnie, senior real estate analyst Standard Life Investments.
Long-held investment beliefs have faced some major challenges in the current environment. The risk-free rate, commonly thought of as the yield on government bonds, is not as risk-free as once presumed in some markets. Heightened volatility in equity markets has meant equity market moves that would have been synonymous with significant corrections in the past are no longer considered unusual daily movements. In this environment, reasonable quality real estate is looking like a positively safe haven for investors. According to the latest Investment Property Databank (IPD) real estate index...
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