The trend in Asia and around the globe has been that upstream and downstream proponents of real estate investment trusts have been working hard to promote REITs as an investment of choice in an era of swaying equity markets. REITs are strengthening liquidity for owners, transparency for all, governance and management, financial discipline, and tax efficiencies. The global REIT market has been growing as a result of the convergence of strong and powerful supply and demand factors where attractive yields and capital growth opportunities are being created out of short and long-term demand for income-based investments that have stable characteristics in an expanding universe of opportunities for real estate.