![Canadians were the top foreign source of capital to U.S. industrial real estate, investing about $5.5 billion (39% of all cross-border industrial deals. Chinese sources were a close second, having spent roughly $4.5 billion in 2018.](https://img.forconstructionpros.com/files/base/acbm/fcp/image/2019/04/foreign_investment_in_US_real_estate.5cc1e5e19a90d.png?auto=format%2Ccompress&fit=crop&h=288&q=70&rect=471%2C126%2C951%2C537&w=512)
Foreign investors were behind 21% of the total industrial real estate investment volume in the U.S. in 2018, according to a recent CBRE report. The activity translated into an aggregate $14.4 billion in acquisitions. Investments originating from Canada, China and Singapore accounted for roughly $10 billion of the investments.
The billions of dollars foreign investors spent on purchasing industrial assets in 2018 marked a 152% jump over the 2017 total.
“Deal volume has increased by 68% for the past five years, even when excluding the large entity-level transactions,” Matthew Walaszek, senior research analyst with CBRE and report co-author, told Commercial Property Executive.
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