Confident Investors Want To Pile $135B More Into Real Estate

Large institutions are at their most confident about the prospects for the real estate sector since 2014, and want to pump an extra $135B into the sector over the next few years.

According to the latest annual Institutional Real Estate Allocations Monitor produced by Hodes Weill, global institutional investors that control $12.3 trillion in assets want to increase their average allocation to real estate to 10.5%, from a current average of 9.4%. That means they want to put a combined $135B into the sector...