Retail investors are racing back into the sector. As a result, retail investment volume has never been stronger, proving that reports of retail's demise were overblown, according to Colliers' Q4 Capital Markets Snapshot.

Total volume topped $30 billion for the second time ever. Sales volume has shown consistent improvement throughout 2021, with Q4 exploding. 

And unlike Q3 2018, when investors traded $31.9 billion, there was no single massive portfolio to drive volume. Instead, it is a more broad-based uptick in overall activity. Part of that is due to improving cash flows. 

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