Diversification throughout commercial property portfolios, by private and institutional investors, is a long-standing tactic but has tended to centre around a select number of core commercial real estate classes.
That has changed in the post 2008 environment, as the industry has seen a growing appetite from investors in ‘alternative commercial property assets’ and the rise in levels of investment in these asset classes across the UK and Ireland is starting to be felt north of the border here in NI.
Figures announced for the UK mainland at the start of this year show that in the first quarter of 2019 investment in these alternative real estate assets, such as hotels, private residential, student accommodation and care homes, reached a record 42 per cent share of the overall UK investment market for the quarter.
Conygar Investment Company PLC (LON:CIC) is an AIM quoted property investment and development group dealing primarily in UK property.
