SLP at the forefront of changes in Vietnam's industrial property market

Speaking at the first panel of Vietnam Industrial Property Forum (VIPF) 2024, Dinh Hoai Nam, director and head of Business Development, SLP Vietnam, said, "Over the past four years, more professional investors have ventured into Vietnam's industrial real estate market, setting a new bar on the industry. It is expected that they will shape the competition focusing on quality products, which will benefit secondary investors and final investors in terms of product quality and price. This trend will improve the Vietnamese real estate market and optimise costs for new investors in the market. We will be able to enjoy better products at good costs, which will invisibly make the Vietnamese market more attractive in the long term."

When SLP invested in Vietnam in 2020, the company successfully raised $1.1 billion to invest in the Vietnamese market. At that time, our focus was on warehouses and logistics facilities for rent. During the implementation process, the company sees that the demand for warehouses still exists. However, it is subject to the domestic consumption market and objective factors globally, which including a decline in production and output.

"Overt the years, SLP has shifted its focus towards rent-built factories," Nam said. "In light of the relocation trend driven by the China Plus 1 strategy and unpredictable geopolitical environment, we forecast the factory segment, especially ready-built factories will explode in the next 2-3 years. Meanwhile, the warehouse segment has a certain delay. When manufacturers enter Vietnam, Vietnamese consumption is expected to gradually recover. Thus, the absorption rate of warehouses is expected grow better in the next 2-3 years."

The representative of SLP also pointed out new types of products arising from both objective and internal factors. Objectively, the investment cost in Vietnam's industrial infrastructure is quite high. Thus SLP and some investors are thinking about building high-rise buildings to optimise project efficiency. This leads to the wave of multi-story factories and warehouses.

The market has recorded better absorbtion for this product. Another new product is built-to-suit factories instead of ready-built factories. These new products serve large investors shifting production to Vietnam and renting large warehouses and factories with customised requirements. The new wave of built-to-suit products, including factories or warehouses, will serve tenants in the fields of electronics, e-commerce, and pharma, he added.

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