JLL Nordic Outlook Report
In this edition of the JLL Nordic Outlook, we cover the Nordic office, logistics, retail and residential markets and review developments in investment and capital markets.
2020 will be known as the year with personal tragedies and when global lockdown paralyzed the global economy. We are still living in an extended second wave lockdown but since COVID-19 vaccines are being rolled out, we expect markets to open in full during 2nd half of 2021.
The year ended with a stronger than expected investment market fueled by mergers and acquisition (M&A) transactions and a strong equity market in which discount valuations were wiped out or substantially reduced related to the more troubled segments: Hotel, Retail and Office type of property companies. Yield requirement in the direct market continued to support asset values mainly within Logistics and Residential transactions but there were pockets of lower yield requirement also in Office transactions both in the Nordics – Oslo and in Europe -London, Hamburg and Frankfurt.
In this edition of the JLL Nordic Outlook, we cover the Nordic office, logistics, retail and residential markets and review developments in investment and capital markets. The theme for this edition of the report is residential rental properties: exploring how stable returns and low operational and financial risk clearly underpin attractive risk reward.