South Korea is experiencing a surge of interest in real estate debt as the country continues another record year in outbound real estate investment. Real Capital Analytics (RCA) has revealed that net acquisitions by South Korean investors was likely to have hit US$4.6 billion last year, with additional real estate transactions worth US$2.5 billion finalised when 2016 wrapped up. And 88 percent of South Korean investors are already planning to invest in real estate debt in the next 12 to 18 months according to a recent survey done by ANREV as bond yields remain compressed. “As governments around the world...