CBRE’s EMEA Investor Intentions Survey 2015, released during MIPIM, indicates that 58 percent of 280 respondents expect to buy more than they did in 2014, while 46 percent think they will sell more. London turned out to be the most desirable EMEA city to make investments in (over 30 percent), followed by Madrid (15 percent). Warsaw, by comparison, fell to below 3 percent. Offices remain, by far, the most attractive sector to invest in, followed by industrial and logistics. With yields increasingly difficult to achieve on appropriate property, increasing numbers of investors are looking to alternative forms of real estate investment. The most popular of these, favored by 34 percent of respondents, was real estate debt, followed by student living and entertainment and leisure.
