Savills Shares Latest China Investment Figures
Outbound investment volumes fall in the first half of 2017
Outbound investment volumes totalled RMB75.25 billion in the first half of 2017, this represents a decline of 4.1% YoY and accounts for only 36% of last year’s total deal consideration.
In terms of the deals that have been concluded or announced to date the many of the larger deals have focused on US assets, indeed the US accounted for 45% of the investment deals concluded in the 12 months to June 2017. There have also been a number of portfolio deals announced typically targeting logistics portfolios / platforms or hotel and healthcare assets. CIC has been one of the most active investors recently concluding a number of the most high profile deals, other significant investors have included HNA, Anbang and China Life.
Chinese investment volumes on track for record year
China’s investment volumes reached RMB106 billion (US$15.45 billion) in the first six months of 2017 according to provisional data from Real Capital Analytics, a record start to the year having exceeded figures recorded in 2015.
The record first half added to the strong second half of 2016, to bring investment volumes for the last 12 months to RMB279 billion (US$41.2 billion). Once again investment volumes focused on Shanghai, with the country’s most active market transacting 168 properties for a total of RMB112 billion according to RCA figures.
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