Nuveen. Perspective on today’s real estate market. 2021 outlook

Nuveen’s real estate team believes the current market offers opportunity for strategic allocation of private real estate for long-term investment benefit and outlights themes taking shape that will impact the opportunity throughout 2021.

Sector themes
• Alternative sectors are set to outperform traditional sectors
• Selectivity is key in traditional sectors

Rethinking urban centres and suburban life
• Strong conviction: U.S. sees demographic shifts in favour of suburbia, sunbelt cities and home working
• Subtle changes in Europe as culture, language, planning and transport support urban locations and Northern
European living
• Large coastal U.S. cities are most at risk from home working; demographically older commuter cities are more exposed in Europe, while we are convinced that the office is unlikely to lose allure in Asian cities

Capital flows convictions
• Global central banks policies will remain very supportive for real estate flows and values
• We are set to see a sector rotation in the U.S., Europe and Asia

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