Global Scans · Real Estate · Weekly Summary

• [New] The tokenization of Real-World Assets is gaining significant momentum in 2025, with DeFi platforms incorporating tangible assets like real estate and stocks onto blockchain networks, expected to unlock new liquidity and grow to $16 trillion by 2030. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
• [New] While housing affordability is likely to remain a challenge for the near future, lower interest rates and recovering real income growth should lead to a pickup in housing demand, and mortgage growth is forecast to rebound to 3.2% in 2027 and outpace current growth by 2028. EY
• [New] Following expected growth of 3.2% (net) in 2025, UK mortgage lending is forecast to slow in 2026 (2.8% net growth), as stretched affordability and a squeeze on real incomes drive a dip in housing demand. EY
• [New] Strong public-private collaboration will be required to meet housing targets while balancing affordability and sustainability goals, ensuring the long-term resilience of Australia's residential construction sector. Yahoo Finance
• [New] Armed Forces personnel and their families in Wales will benefit from the most significant transformation of UK military housing in more than 50 years, with more than 40,000 service family homes across the UK to be modernised, refurbished or rebuilt. GOV.UK
• [New] For context, a single hyperscale AI data center can cost $7 billion or more, driven by hardware alone, with total global data center investments projected to hit $7 trillion by 2030 across the value chain (including real estate, power infrastructure, and chips). Medium
• [New] The Canadian Real Estate Association has upgraded its forecast for home sales in 2025, saying it now expects a softer decline in 2025 as activity continues to rebound. BNN Bloomberg
• [New] Indigenous housing and infrastructure: Build Canada Homes, a new federal agency aimed at driving investment and public private cooperation, will work with Indigenous leaders to determine how it can best contribute to Indigenous identified needs and priorities. Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
• Qatar Diar, a subsidiary of Qatar sovereign wealth fund, will invest USD3.5bn in a major tourism and real estate project along Egypt's Mediterranean coastline, marking another wave of Gulf support for Egypt's economic recovery. MUFG Research
• Gartner: 80% of top real-estate developers will run portfolio twins by 2028. Logiciel Solutions
• Unconditional permanence could spur a surge in immigration and strain housing, healthcare and transport infrastructure. / Switzerland VisaHQ
• The £9bn Defence Housing Strategy will see more than 40,000 military homes modernised or replaced. Last Week in ConTech
• Canada's federal budget will include a C$ 50 billion ($35.65 billion) local infrastructure fund to pay for housing, transportation and health projects. Last Week in ConTech
• A comprehensive land and real-estate titling reform will convert roughly 90% of Nigeria's land that currently carries defective or no titles into legally recognised assets, releasing an estimated $900 billion of dead capital and enabling collateralised lending. The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News
• The rapid growth of the semiconductors, automotive, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, and renewable energy equipment industries, collectively seen as part of a projected $1 trillion manufacturing industry boom, have resulted in evolving requirements for industrial real estate. Charlton Media Group
• Asia Pacific's manufacturing revolution is reshaping industrial real estate requirements as four key growth industries will rely on sophisticated facilities to support future demand. Charlton Media Group
• Already the second-largest employer after agriculture, real estate supports 71 million jobs, expected to rise to 100 million by 2030, with over 250 industries linked to its demand. The Wire
• Qatari Diar, the real estate arm of Doha's sovereign wealth fund, will invest $29.7 billion in the Alam Al-Roum project, featuring golf courses and marinas along a 7-km undeveloped coastline northwest of Cairo. Guidely
• The Housing Acceleration Fund, administered by New York State Homes and Community Renewal, will provide low-cost, construction loans to fill financing gaps in the construction of mixed-income housing developments. Governor Kathy Hochul
• Widespread adoption of internet-ready housing could add $25 billion annually to support diversification and Nigeria's agricultural output. Prime Progress NG
• The Australian construction industry is expected to grow at an average annual rate of 3.2% from 2026 to 2029, supported by public and private investment in energy infrastructure and housing projects. Yahoo Finance
• Ottawa plans to attract investment to unlock AI data centers for the next generation of infrastructure, supercharge housing construction and further develop a defence industry. BNN Bloomberg

Last updated: 22 November 2025