Secondary investments in commercial real estate in Kyiv and the suburbs in January-June 2019 amounted to $131 million, while at the end of 2018 this figure was $328 million, according to a study by Cushman & Wakefield consulting company. According to the company, the main areas of investment in the first half of the year were office and retail real estate.
For the nine months of 2019, secondary investments in office real estate in Kyiv and the suburbs increased by 6% compared to the same period in 2018, to $89 million. At the same time, investments in logistics real estate decreased by 58%, to $10 million.
According to the analysis, profitability rates of high-quality facilities in January-September slightly decreased (by 0.5 percentage points), but generally remained at the level of indicators for 2018. Thus, by the end of the third quarter, the indicator for offices was 11.5%, for warehouse facilities some 12.25%.
Cushman & Wakefield (formerly DTZ) was founded in New York in 1917. The company is a consultant in the field of commercial real estate with an annual income of $6 billion. Cushman & Wakefield operates in more than 70 countries, the number of employees is 45,000 people.
Prior to the global merger of Cushman & Wakefield and DTZ consulting companies in 2015, the Ukrainian office worked under the DTZ brand.
