Industrial real estate investment in Mexico has successfully managed to overcome the ravages of the pandemic and is one of the sectors that has been able to take the most advantage of the rearrangement of supply chains worldwide.

Due to a combination of factors such as the proximity to the United States, which represents the greatest potential demand, together with an important evolution of more than two years since T-MEC started, they create the market and legal conditions for the relocation to flow successfully. of new production processes that would be more onerous and require longer compliance terms if they continued to be developed from Asia.

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Opportunities are on the table for the relocation of foreign companies to be promoted together with the push for investment by national companies. The national logistics system has been able to strengthen itself in recent years, favoring the arrival of new investments, although the largest proportion is concentrated in expansions.

Between January and June of this year, the country would have received around 27 thousand 511 million dollars for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), which represents an increase of 12% compared to the same period of 2021, according to the Secretariat of Economy.

Industrial investment sets the standard in this investment figure and more than 242 companies signed a contract to establish themselves in some industrial space, of which 78% corresponds to planned expansions in Mexican territory. The qualification of the workforce, the strategic location and the existence of a developed industrial environment in the midst of an institutional market are some of the advantages that have motivated these companies to settle in the country.

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When the figure of the gross industrial demand accumulated between January and August 2022 is analyzed, it almost reaches 4.5 million square meters, which represents 12% above what was registered in the same period of 2021.

On the risk side, the increasingly evident inclination towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as a universal call to protect the planet, among other purposes, and which affects developers and tenants going after the search for clean water and sanitation, affordable and non-polluting energy, together with the development of an industry that maintains elements of innovation and an infrastructure in accordance with the demands of industrial activity.

In the Mexican case, the issue of security and water are the biggest obstacles for investments that come to the country. Insecurity includes not only physical insecurity for the protection of people and goods, but also financial security that allows guaranteeing the profitability of investments on Mexican soil.