Despite a slow start in investment activity worldwide to the beginning of 2012, Cushman & Wakefield expects the sector will end up recording a 20 percent increase in global investment by the end of December. That would see 2011’s €568bn total strengthen to €576bn in 2012. The activity will be encouraged by stronger demand as well as increased investment supply stemming from bank loan restructuring and the need for project recapitalizations. EMEA investment rose 14 percent in 2011 to €144.1bn, with Central & Eastern Europe up 76 percent and Western Europe up 8 percent. Czech investment volumes exceeded expectations because of pent-up demand from 2010.
