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April 14, 2020

Lessons For Real Estate From A Market Coming Out Of Lockdown
[Webinar] Fear Stress, Coronavirus & Finding The Silver Lining April 14

For real estate in the U.S. and UK, Asia is a vision of the future.

Having been hit by the coronavirus first, places like China and Hong Kong were among the first to implement quarantine and stay-at-home measures, sometimes as early as January.

Now, those measures have started to have an impact, with the number of new cases dropping to levels where it is now possible for people to slowly begin to leave their homes and resume their daily lives. 

On a Bisnow webinar, Hong Kong-based Collin Lau, founder of private equity firm BEI Capital and former global head of real estate for sovereign wealth fund China Investment Corporation, spoke to JLL UK head of capital markets Alistair Meadows about what a real estate market emerging from lockdown looks and feels like. Some long-term trends have persisted. But, as much as it is a cliché, some things will never be the same for how real estate is used and operated. 

Here are the key takeaways. You can find the recording here.

Lessons For Real Estate From A Market Coming Out Of Lockdown

People Want To Feel SafeRight now in the markets where BEI operates, like Hong Kong and mainland China, it is not enough to have property that people want or even need to go to: People must feel safe going there. “People are concerned about gathering together in the immediate future,” Lau said.…

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What to do with your building while it is unoccupied is a challenge currently vexing owners and property managers across the UK, and retail is at the forefront. What are the liabilities of leaving a store unoccupied for weeks, possibly months on end, while it is full of stock?

No Advice From The PoliceJoules and White Stuff are staples of the British high street. They have roughly the same number of stores, appear on roughly the same selection of high streets and chose roughly similar premises. The White Stuff demographic might be slightly younger and funkier (and their prices…

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