Real Estate € Supply Outlook 2025

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Real estate bond supply has exceeded our expectations so far in 2024, with total €-denominated real estate issuance at c€19bn as of October 2024. We had initially forecasted supply of €15bn for the year, which was already a large increase compared to 2023 (€8bn). However, supply has been even stronger than expected, with many companies having taken advantage of improving capital markets and substantial demand in 2024.

We expect supply to pick up meaningfully again in 2025, pencilling in €30bn for real estate. While €30bn is significantly higher than recent years, it is still a lot lower than 2020 and 2021, and more in line with 2018 and 2019. We see five main reasons for the 2025 increase:

  1. Redemptions start to pick up
  2. Transaction volumes likely to improve
  3. Bond market conditions improve for more issuers
  4. Real estate turns the corner
  5. Green bond supply remains strong

For 2024, redemptions and supply are set to be broadly similar, with the potential for net supply to be marginally positive. This follows the -€11bn of net negative supply in 2023, a real outlier as the chart below shows. For 2025, we think net positive supply is c€6bn, which is still low in a historical context.