THE IMPACT OF E-COMMERCE ON THE INVESTMENT ATTRACTIVENESS OF WAREHOUSE REAL ESTATE

Intensive development of information technologies and e-commerce in recent years contributes to the rapid increase in demand for warehouse space. Starting from 2021, the growing interest of potential investors in warehouse real estate confirms the relevance of the chosen topic and the conducted research. In the article was used methods of synthesis, analysis of scientific literature on the selected research topic, correlation analysis, concretization, comparison. The article reveals the influence of e-commerce on the investment attractiveness of warehouse real estate. The hypothesis about the growth of rental rates for warehouse real estate objects depending on the growth of the e-commerce market on the example of the real estate market of St. Petersburg has been proved. For this purpose, a vertical and horizontal analysis of the e-commerce market in Russia was carried out, and the main trends in the warehouse real estate segment were identified. A correlation analysis was also carried out correlation analysis, which revealed the dependence of rental rates of warehouse rental rates to changes in the online commerce market.