Recent Study: Thailand Real Estate Report Q4 2014

Thailand's commercial real estate sector holds considerable long-term growth potential, with a vibrant tourist industry and growing consumer base providing scope for growth in demand. However, the country's recent political problems have affected growth, weighing on both demand and levels of investment.

The Thai commercial real estate sector has a number of strengths, including an investor-friendly business environment as well as the country's advantageous location and its status as a significant exporter. The market is relatively developed, boasting with a number of major players and a recently launched real estate investment trust (REIT) market, although development and transactional activity remains overwhelmingly focused on the capital, Bangkok.

While the long-term prospects for growth of the commercial real estate sector remain favourable, the sector has not escaped the effects of the country's political upheaval, which led to the coup in May 2014. Though the country has enjoyed a return to relative stability over recent months, following the ascension of the military junta to power, economic growth had been affected; there have been wider repercussions for tourist arrivals and foreign direct investment. Economic growth contracted in Q114 and while growth has resumed, our Country Risk team forecasts GDP to expand by a relatively modest 2.0% over 2014, a noticeable slowdown when compared to the past two years.

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However, on the positive side, Thailand's attractions include its location in the heart of South East Asia. From 2015 the ASEAN Economic Community is set to create a single market for the countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). This should particularly support office and industrial real estate.

Meanwhile, Thailand is an enduringly popular holiday destination, and as such hospitality-related real estate is thriving. We are expecting an increase in the number of tourist arrivals into the country over the next few...

The Thailand Real Estate Report features Business Monitor International (BMI)'s market assessment and independent forecasts of major construction projects in the residential and commercial markets, plus rental prices and yields in major cities. The report critically analyses the prospects for real estate within the broader economic and financial context - both domestic and global - via our econometrically-modelled and clearly explained banking and economic forecasts and follows this through to evaluate the implications for REITs.

BMI's Thailand Real Estate Report provides industry professionals and strategists, sector analysts, business investors, trade associations and regulatory bodies with independent forecasts and competitive intelligence on the real estate industry in Thailand.

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