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Vietnam’s residential and logistics real estate markets are gaining with investors. Thailand may lose out in this race if the tourism-reliant economy remains conservative travel policies.

The total investment volumes of 2022 in real estate and hospitality markets in the region may reach around US $200 billion and US $9 billion respectively.

Housing prices have shot up across cities in Asia Pacific this year, fuelled by record low interest rates. Optimism has also gained steam as vaccination rates increased and some countries moved toward a post-Covid recovery.

Home prices continued rising across the region. New chances for new hotel developments and rebranding appeared. UNWTO predicted that international tourist numbers could plunge up to 80% in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, back to levels of 30 years ago.

Global house prices are rising at the fastest rate since 2006 with a double-digit pace annually. Asia Pacific hotel investment remained flat in 1H 2021 with US $3.7 billion in sales.

Fears of possible bubbles rose. Hospitality companies were pushing into the rental housing sector including private houses and villas. Covid-19 related stimulus, ultralow rates and changes in buyer behaviour are turbocharging housing markets from Europe to…