"It is a significant turnaround for an asset class that had plumbed to record lows at the start of 2024, weighed down by a slowing economy and a confidence crisis in the country’s real estate sector.
The Asia Pacific Real Assets Association, or APREA, says despite a challenging economy and a property sector plagued by over levered developers, C-REITs have bucked overall economic trends in China.
According to the CSI REITs Total Return index, the 14.2% that C-REITs have notched in the six months through June in 2025 outperforms the SSE Composite, which rose 2.8% in the same period. It is also ahead of the wider REIT universe in the Asia Pacific, which returned 8.5%, according to the GPR/APREA REIT Composite.
