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Top Cities for Investment to Spread by 2020

CHICAGO-JLL will release a study at today’s World Economic Forum in Switzerland that claims that globalization will dilute the top 30 cities for world CRE investment.

By Robert Carr | Updated on January 26, 2012

CHICAGO-A Jones Lang LaSalle study being released this afternoon at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland says that the top 30 cities, which now account for half of all commercial real estate investment in the world, will see dilution by a decade from now. The top 10, however, will likely remain mostly the same, though Chinese megacities could push some names off the list.

The study is part of the locally based company’s “World Winning Cities” research program launched in 2002 to understand trends in urbanization and asses impacts on global real estate markets. One of the first things learned, says Jeremy Kelly, the author of the recent “New World of Cities” study, is that the top markets don’t normally change much over time. “The top 10 stay pretty consistent,” he tells GlobeSt.com, and says even the other 20 haven’t given much ground.

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