Current Drivers of Real Estate Investment Demand
In the present market, real estate investment demand is an evolving story – a story we’re living and a story we’re dissecting in real time. Capital Square exists in a unique position to seize upon this moment, and the recently published 2024 Midyear Outlook from Clarion, recently shared on WealthManagement.com, identified several key structural themes that highlight Capital Square’s competitive advantage.
Three Themes of Real Estate Investment Demand in 2024
- Demographics
The U.S. is expected to grow to 400 million people by 2060 with the strongest growth anticipated in the Sun Belt, Mountain region and urban fringe/suburbs.
Capital Square focuses on submarkets showing the most favorable demographic fundamentals driven by several factors, most notably cost of living and quality of life. These structural trends are integral to Capital Square’s market selection and steer our living investment thesis.
- Housing Shortage and Affordability
Over the past decade, the U.S. median home price has risen by 84%, attributable to a decade-plus of underbuilding following the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-2008. Over the next five years, the housing shortage is estimated to be 3-4 million homes, the majority of which are single-family homes.[1]
Capital Square addresses this gap through its living investments, most notably its recent investments in build for rent (BFR). Capital Square is building and acquiring single-family rental communities as homeownership becomes out of reach for countless households.
- Resiliency
Market and asset-level resiliency, impacted significantly by operational and environmental factors, is critical to providing consistent and repeatable cash flows through cycles to investors.
Capital Square’s opportunity zone developments are premier, Class A mixed-use builds with environmentally conscious features that are expected to outperform in the long-term. In particular, the Scott’s Addition amenity-rich neighborhood offers long-term growth potential for new developments in this burgeoning live/work/play community.
Additional Considerations
While less pertinent to investments in multifamily and build-for-rent, innovation and shifting globalization are also key to forming a diversified, durable real estate portfolio. Capital Square is investing in markets such as Knoxville and Chattanooga, where workforces are largely driven by tech and healthcare industries, and Glendale, where workforces are bolstered by over 20 million square feet of logistics space thriving on ecommerce growth and the U.S. government’s CHIPS act, sparking Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s $65 billion investment in semiconductor facilities in Arizona.[2] [3] [4]
In summary, Capital Square’s investment thesis seeks to capitalize on the structural themes driving long-term real estate investment demand, as identified by Clarion Partners.
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[1] Clarion and CBRE, 2024.
[2] Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024.
[3] Phoenix Business Journal, 2022.
[4] TSMC press release, 2024.
