Residential investment biggest chunk of commercial real estate last year
A new report by Sherry Fitzgerald finds that institutional landlords invested more than €1.7bn in Ireland’s residential sector last year – mostly to forward fund the construction of apartments. As such, residential investment was the largest segment of commercial real estate in 2021, with 34% of funds going to buy or fund homes to rent. The figures show that there was €5bn in investment last year, with €1.5bn going to…