Southeast Asia's real estate market in August, 2017

Consumer demand continues underpinning the rise of retail space in Phnom Penh where grade A and grade B shopping malls only occupy a total land area of about 104,000 sq m. In Vietnam, the Chinese and Japanese investors are showing interest in the real estate market via an increasing number of M&A deals in the recent time.

In the meantime, one quarter of Myanmar’s population who are living in low-quality homes with inadequate living conditions need a total of 3.8 million new accommodation units. However, foreign investors are afraid of developing megacity projects in this country since Myanmar lacks government guarantees and effective investment policies for the real estate market.