Marc Giuffrida, Executive Director, Global Capital Markets Asia added, "Last year was an important year for cross-border real estate investing--we saw the deployment of capital accelerate as a convergence of structural and cyclical factors encouraged pockets of new capital to enter the market. This is a key trend we expect will continue into 2015. The second half of 2014 saw Chinese and Taiwanese insurers begin to feature prominently in global real estate markets.