An Overview of the Role of Logistics Real Estate Europe

Abstract

Logistic real estate has unique features with respect to the other sector of real estate and it includes different type of assets that typically fit into distribution and storage purposes. This chapter presents a definition of logistic real estate market and provides the main differences among distribution centers, fulfilment centres, warehouses and manufacturing/production facilities. The analysis presented considers also the dynamics of the demand and the supply for logistic real estate describing the location attributes, the macro-determinants and clusters that may affect the performance of the asset.