Offices are the top choice for Asia-Pacific property investors in 2021

SINGAPORE — Real estate investors in Asia-Pacific are most likely to put money into offices in 2021, with 31% of respondents choosing the sector over other market segments in a recent survey.

That’s despite huge changes to workplaces following the coronavirus pandemic, such as work-from-home arrangements becoming the norm last year.

More than half of the respondents in Sydney and Melbourne said they like offices as an investment opportunity this year, along with 42% of Singapore’s survey respondents, according to property investment firm Colliers International’s Global Capital Markets 2021 Investor Outlook.

“In this uncertain environment, investors will prefer to deploy capital into lower…