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COVID-19 spurs change in non-listed real estate

Insights from the INREV Annual Conference 2021

With its theme of Reinvention for resilience: getting ready for the new normal, one of the most important questions for the INREV Annual Conference 2021 was how the COVID-19 pandemic would impact non-listed real estate in the longer term.

Early in the conference and setting the scene for much of what followed, one session was devoted entirely to this question, asking what structural changes will follow the pandemic and what the implications could be across the real estate sectors.