The property market in Switzerland has enjoyed capital appreciation for nine consecutive years. The IPD Switzerland Annual Property Index reports a 1.4% increase for 2010. Learn more about this in the full article by PropertyWire.
Switzerland’s property market has continued its unbroken streak of nine consecutive years of capital appreciation, with 1.4% in 2010, according to the latest IPD Switzerland Annual Property Index.
Switzerland, Europe’s most resilient market during the global financial crisis in 2008 and 2009, delivered an improved annual total return of 6.1% last year, 60 basis points ahead of 2009’s 5.5% and matching the return of 2008.
The principal driver of capital growth was squarely rental growth across each of the four main sectors, with modest yield compression. Over the year, rental growth was 1.3%, while yields compressed by 10 basis points to 5.9%.
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The best and worst performing parts of the market were separated by 180 basis points, with the retail sector topping the table, with annual returns of 6.8%, while the industrial sector returned 5.0%. Overall, the commercial sectors (retail and offices) performed better than the market with residentials posting a below-average performance.
The Switzerland property market has a track record of low volatility. This is primarily determined by the large weight of the residential sector in the index coupled with limited asset supply and a dominant stock ownership, local pension and insurance funds and other institutional investors, which take long term positions in the market thereby creating genuine market stability, the report says.
As a result, annual capital growth and total returns tend not to suffer the volatility seen in other real estate investment markets, it adds.
Two of the three retail districts outperformed the all property 6.1% average, with shopping centres underperforming by 10 basis points, at 6%, while retail in major cities and other retails returned 7.7% and 6.7% respectively.
Of the six major office districts, Geneva was the top performer, at 7.3%, while Berne was the worst performing office segment, returning 3.4%, driven by a -1.9% capital depreciation.
Only two of the five residential segments outperformed the all property market average, Zurich, at 6.3%, and Lausanne, at 6.7%. The residential district of Berne delivered the weakest performance across all market segments, at 3.1%.
This article was republished with permission from PropertyWire.
