Bahrain has unveiled a series of new infrastructure initiatives in a bid to bolster current transport capacity and fuel the country’s wider economic growth.
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Articles & Analysis | Urbanisation and growing populations incentivise emerging markets' governments to solve housing deficits from The Report: Colombia 2019
Urbanisation is a mega-trend redefining contemporary life in both developed and emerging markets across the world. According to the UN, in 1950, 751m people lived in urban areas; however, by 2018 this number had risen to 4.2bn, equivalent to roughly 55% of the world’s population. By 2050 the UN estimates that this figure will rise to 68%. This...
Interviews & Viewpoints | Roberto Moreno, President, Amarilo: Interview from The Report: Colombia 2019
Articles & Analysis | Colombia increases focus on subsidised and free housing programmes from The Report: Colombia 2019
Although it is affected by a slowing economy, the construction sector remains one of the country’s most important industries. The sector posted negative growth in the first quarter of 2019, contracting by 5.6% year-on-year (y-o-y) compared to a decrease of 0.9% in the same period of 2018. Despite government efforts to subsidise low-income...
Articles & Analysis | Colombian real estate market shows beginning of a revival of sustainable growth from The Report: Colombia 2019
Following a challenging three-year period characterised by an oversupply of new homes and a growing housing deficit, data from late 2018 and early 2019 indicate the beginning of a revival in the Colombian real estate market. While inventories from the pre-2016 construction boom underscore the old mismatch between developer interests and the...
Articles & Analysis | Private equity spending drives changes in Colombia's retail ownership from The Report: Colombia 2019
The real estate industry in Colombia and wider South America has undergone substantial change in recent years, driven by an influx of private capital investments from local and international fund managers, sovereign wealth funds and Canadian pension funds.