INSURANCE INSIGHTS FOR THE GLOBAL REAL ESTATE SECTOR
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At Gallagher Specialty, our Real Estate team’s insights help clients recognise the advantages gained from managing risk strategically. Our regular content contributors span legal indemnities, mergers & acquisitions, warranties & indemnities, tax, property and private equity. Their articles cover hot topics in the sector and discuss the cost of risk across a range of commercial and residential asset classes.
Global M&A Insurance: 2023 Review & 2024 Outlook
In our latest Global M&A Insurance Report, our specialists share their reflections on the market activity of 2023 and their forward-looking outlook for 2024. Taking into account a turbulent 2022, our latest report reviews a challenging 2023 for the W&I market, confronted by high interest rates, geopolitical tensions, regulatory intervention and other macroeconomic headwinds.
ESG & Real Estate: Where are we now?
ESG is now likely one of the top three priorities for all Gallagher real estate clients and prospects. In other words, it is very much here to stay, but the drive to deliver net zero is not linear, and everyone is moving at different speeds due to disparities in appetite, ability and pressure from stakeholders, most notably investors.
Global M&A Insurance: 2023 Mid-Year Market Update
It has been a difficult start to the year for most M&A practitioners. Geopolitical uncertainty and continued high interest rates have caused deal flow to fall year-on-year. However, on the positive side, insurers have used the downtime to innovate and create bespoke solutions in order to differentiate themselves and win business.
Building Resilience: Real Estate and EIL
Traditionally EIL has been used in single property transactions to insure against potential claims and regulatory liabilities. Increasingly, however, real estate owners and investors are acquiring EIL to cover their operational risks and/or property portfolios.
Legal Indemnity Insurance Update
As predicted in our February 2022 update, on account of an increase in claims, we have seen insurance rates within the legal indemnity / title insurance market slowly increasing, particularly with regards to Rights of Light coverage. Simultaneously we are seeing capacity reduce further in the title to shares insurance market -although the title to real estate has not been affected.
Global M&A Insurance
2022 has been turbulent for the wider M&A industry, despite a record breaking year for M&A insurance in 2021. Whilst the global pandemic started to fade at the beginning of the year, other political and economic events have forced deal-makers to stall on some of their investments.
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