To support a major real estate market player in determining where to focus investment over the coming decade, Chris partnered with a European multinational to identify the strongest global growth opportunities. Concentrating on sectors such as renewables, commercial and industrial and healthcare, Chris conducted research to assess the size and future potential of multiple sub-sectors across 16 international markets.

The project relied primarily on secondary research, drawing on international and national reports published by public agencies, government bodies and private-sector organisations. This work enabled the establishment of a robust base year showing investment in each sub-sector, along with an assessment of historical performance and forward-looking growth expectations. The outcome was a set of detailed country profiles, each illustrating sector and sub-sector dynamics and highlighting the most attractive current and emerging opportunities.

Not all sectors were able to rely on secondary sources of information. For the industrial manufacturing sector, where reliable data on process, hybrid, and discrete manufacturing is rarely published, AI-assisted research and analysis was also employed. This enabled more efficient identification and, where necessary, estimation of market sizes within these specialised sub-segments.