In 2016, One Trillion Plus Dollars is expected to be the Global Real Estate Market.

Real estate investors worldwide remain strongly expansionary in 2016, with more than $1 trillion of planned expenditures anticipated to enter global real estate markets--6 percent higher than in 2015.The 2016 survey was conducted between January and early February, and captured negative sentiment arising from volatility in China's stock market at the time. The survey asked investors how much capital they would deploy in real estate purchases this year.

The results reveal there is approximately $1.16 trillion of capital targeting property investment in 2016--an increase of 3 percent from 2015 levels in local currency terms. The majority of investors (82 percent) indicate that their buying activity will increase or remain the same compared to 2015. While these results are down slightly from the last two years--86 percent in 2015 and 93% in 2014--this is not indicative of widespread concern about the short- or medium-term performance of real estate as an asset class.

More likely, it reflects some concerns about pricing, the direction of U.S. interest rates and current volatility in equities.