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Capital Gravity
Coming out of lockdown: Global investment hot spots
As we finally emerge from lockdown, it’s time to consider where the best opportunities lie for investors. The uncertain environment of volatile equity markets, and $18tn worth of negative yielding…
3 years ago
Age of Uncertainty
How investors are capitalising on our life online
Global mobile data traffic grew by 49% during 2019, and it’s predicted to expand by 32% per annum until 2025 – when the average person is expected to interact with smart devices 5,000 times a day. On…
3 years ago
Building Resilience
For borrowers in Europe, Covid-19 won’t be the same as the GFC
By Lisa Attenborough, Partner, Capital Advisory Amid global uncertainty, I am regularly asked about the potential distress in the debt market; when is it going to happen; how much of it will there…
3 years ago
Age of Uncertainty
Four real estate transactions in Europe that show the impacts of Covid-19
With the onset of Covid-19, we’ve faced an unexpected shock. Though the pandemic has challenged certain sectors such as hospitality and retail, it has also proven the resilience of core assets, driven…
3 years ago
Capital Gravity
How are global capital flows changing?
Global capital flows for H1 2020 were 23% lower than the same period in 2019 as the economic effects and physical restrictions imposed by the pandemic spread. Just over 26% of transactions were…
4 years ago
Age of Uncertainty
Heightened uncertainty: Covid-19, localisation and the inflation debate
Covid-19 has plunged the world into one of the most uncertain periods on record. Gold has hit record highs, equity volatility is elevated and government bond yields around the world remain low.
4 years ago
Building Resilience
What is a resilient investment?
In an uncertain environment with a backdrop of a health-led global economic shock, positioning for resilience is key for real estate investors.
4 years ago
Latest News
2020
Which types of real estate will investors target post-Covid-19?
Asset resilience, geographic resilience and market resilience are inextricably linked and will help support commercial real estate investment decision making and performance in the next stage of the…
4 years ago
Building Resilience
What is innovation? And why does it matter to investors?
Innovation can be described as the combination of labour and capital employed in new ways to drive growth or do more with a given set of factors of production or inputs. This is distinct from…
4 years ago
Capital Gravity
Where will capital flow in 2021?
Using a bespoke ‘capital gravity’ model, we have been able to forecast the likely flows of capital between countries, as well as their estimated sizes for 2021.
4 years ago
Capital Gravity
What will influence capital flows in 2021? From oil to geopolitics
As models carry an inherent amount of uncertainty, the task of predicting the future when the market is faced with a major shock, such as Covid-19, is even more difficult. While our capital gravity…
4 years ago
Age of Uncertainty
What the vaccine, the US election and stock market surges mean for real estate investors
Since launching Active Capital, the world has undergone a further series of shifts. From summer recoveries to stock market surges, from the US election to news of vaccines.
4 years ago
Building Resilience
Where are the world’s innovation-led cities?
Knight Frank’s research into innovation-led cities has collected over 100 different indicators, including data on almost 100,000 research institutions globally. From a long-list of 750 cities, these…
4 years ago
Age of Uncertainty
The macroeconomic backdrop of Covid-19 – and the role of tech
Knight Frank’s Victoria Ormond, CFA, Partner, Capital Markets Research, zooms out on the global macro-economic backdrop of Covid-19. Here’s how the landscape has shifted over the past few months and…
4 years ago
Building Resilience
Going green: What's behind the rise of sustainability in real estate?
The sustainable real estate movement is often viewed as a nascent or fringe alternative investment choice mainly focused in Europe, but as our research shows, the reality is quite different.
4 years ago
Capital Gravity
How modern real estate investors are making decisions during Covid-19
The dramatic impact Covid-19 has had on global mobility is bound to shift global capital flows. In the coming year, real estate investors will be thinking twice about where they invest and what they…
4 years ago
Capital Gravity
How is cross-border investment evolving in Europe?
Our capital gravity model has predicted that in 2021, five of the top 10 destinations for capital will be in Europe, including the UK, Germany, France, the Netherlands and Finland. Likewise, five of…
4 years ago
Building Resilience
15 green building hotspots around the world
There are more than 120,000 green-rated buildings worldwide, giving investors a wide choice of sustainable assets. But which cities should they consider first? We highlight 15 top choices from the…
4 years ago
Capital Gravity
How is investment appetite in Asia-Pacific changing?
With global capital flows to safe haven locations as well as between near-neighbour countries expected to dominate in 2021, Emily Relf, a Director in Knight Frank’s Asia-Pacific Capital Markets team,…
4 years ago
Building Resilience
Q&A: How leverage influences market resilience
What impact could Covid-19 have on bank lending to commercial real estate? What are the implications for non-bank lenders? And what impact is sustainability having on commercial real estate lending?
4 years ago
Building Resilience
Q&A: How is the pandemic changing the real estate debt markets?
How has lender appetite been impacted since the pandemic? Are there specific property types that lenders are more willing to lend against? And as debt funds raise more capital, will the environment…
4 years ago
Capital Gravity
The globalisation of real estate: The view from Asia
There’s been a step change in the globalisation of real estate as an asset class over the past few years – globalising the asset class has become increasingly important. Nick Holt, Knight Frank’s Head…
4 years ago
2020
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2020
Welcome to Active Capital
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