Property Economics
Amy Wood

Amy joined Capital Economics in 2018 to work on the UK Commercial Property Service. Previously, she worked as a senior economic analyst at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. She also spent one year on a work secondment at the Bank for International Settlements in Switzerland.
Amy holds an Honour’s degree in Economics from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Articles published by Amy Wood
- Scandi & Swiss: Rising interest rates to hit values
- Office rent growth to slow, but quality gap could arise
- Emerging Europe: Rental growth steps up
- Slower yield compression weighs on capital growth
- Italian capital values to take a hit
- Office yields most vulnerable to rising interest rates
- War impact reinforces investment slowdown
- Euro-zone property yields to rise sooner
- Completion delays prolong Budapest office market dip
- Rising costs an upside risk to German industrial rents
- Amsterdam and Rotterdam retail to trail
- Has Prague industrial pricing gone too far?
- Emerging Europe: War reinforces weak values outlook
- Scandi & Swiss: Rising pressure on property yields
- War in Ukraine adds to uncertainty; retail most at risk
- Most industrial markets overvalued in Q4
- Russia-Ukraine and the risks to commercial property
- Emerging Europe: All-property values jump in Q4
- Will prime rents offer inflation protection?
- Good times over for industrial rents in major ports
- Pandemic not the only risk to Stockholm property
- Gradual flexible office recovery underway
- What’s in store for retail this year?
- Our key calls for European property in 2022
- Diagnosing the opportunity in European life sciences
- Scandi & Swiss: 2021 as good as it gets for returns
- Omicron poses near-term downside risk to property recovery
- Valuations worsen, but office and retail still fair value
- Scandinavia & Switzerland: Values to rise further
- Rental recovery picks up pace
- Consensus still underestimating impact of remote work
- German retail vacancy to remain elevated
- How pandemic changes will affect European cities
- Investment to peak later next year
- Near-term upgrades to German office rental growth
- Why are prime industrial rental values not taking off?
- Did Europeans leave cities (and have they returned)?
- Oslo property returns have peaked
- Scandi & Swiss: Returns to converge further ahead
- Sector fortunes to shift
- Zurich office returns rank poorly over next five years
- IPF Consensus Forecasts (Aug.)
- Spanish retail rents to rebound from next year
- Retail yield stabilisation not a sign of a turning point
- Longer-term prospects poor for Italian offices
- A primer on European residential property
- More competition a risk to flexible office activity
- Is our weak outlook for Lisbon office rents justified?
- Has Athens been pushed off track by COVID-19?
- Vaccine passport no silver bullet for prime high streets
- Consensus catching up to the view of a weak recovery
- Rise in bond yields weighs on property valuations
- Hamburg office rental growth set to outperform
- In which cities will WFH have a larger impact?
- Stockholm prime offices on track to outperform
- Rents in German industrial markets to be kept in check
- Office vacancy in Copenhagen close to its peak
- Where is there scope for conversions to residential?
- Southern European underperformance to continue
- Bond yield rise won’t cause property yields to spike
- Temporary halt to Amsterdam office rental growth
- Calling time on Italian prime retail rental growth
- Where might industrial yields fall most this year?
- Can Oslo office yields continue to edge lower?
- Investors in Europe moving down the risk curve
- Are we too pessimistic about Spanish office rents?
- Our key commercial property trends for 2021
- Is Turkish retail property roasted?
- Only 15% of European markets overvalued
- Higher online share to boost logistics demand by 15%
- Higher online share to boost logistics demand by 15%
- Higher online share to boost logistics demand by 15%
- Higher online share to boost logistics demand by 15%
- Higher online share to boost logistics demand by 15%
- Weak investment to drag into 2021
- Will German ecommerce accelerate post-COVID-19?
- Imminent rise in bankruptcies to weigh on values
- What do recent sales data imply for the retail sector?
- What to make of recent moves in REIT prices?
- Emerging Europe: The tables turn on retail
- Remote working poses significant downside to rents
- Oslo offices to suffer despite economic outperformance
- Revising our 2020 European investment forecasts
- Strength of Romanian industrial take-up to wane
- Slow consumer recovery to hold back Polish retail rents
- Is investor interest in Portugal justified?
- Relative strength of Swiss job creation won’t help rents
- Luxury retail and tourism hit double whammy for Paris
- Scandi & Swiss: Yield rises to reverse, except for retail
- Property values will fall sharply, but won’t reach GFC lows
- How has office output fared?
- Southern Europe leads valuation deterioration
- Scandinavia & Switzerland: Value slump on the way
- Large pre-let pipeline in Milan won’t prevent rent falls
- Which retail markets are most exposed to COVID-19?
- Impact of WFH on European office demand
- Investor sentiment turns sour
- Property values in Southern Europe to fall the most
- Looser measures won’t stop retail rent falls in Stockholm
- Pricing more vulnerable in CEE markets
- What do equity price falls imply for European property?
- What do equity price falls imply for European property?
- Good times won’t last for Milan prime offices
- German office rents to hold up despite boost to supply
- Any boost to Dublin industrial rents will be temporary
- How might coronavirus impact European high streets?
- How might coronavirus impact European high streets?
- Solid domestic demand won’t help Budapest retail rents
- Signs of growing preference for European real estate
- Signs of growing preference for European real estate
- High rents and softer economy weigh on Spanish retail
- Key predictions for European property in 2020
- What do equities suggest about euro-zone property?
- Elections, Brexit and Property
- IHS Markit/CIPS Construction PMI (Oct.)
- IHS Markit/CIPS Construction PMI (Oct.)
- RICS Commercial Property Market Survey (Q3)
- Lending to commercial property (Sep.)
- How prolonged will the downturn in retail rents be?
- Shopping centre rental value growth to worsen
- IHS Markit/CIPS Construction PMI (Sep.)
- Impact of CVAs to further weigh on retail rents
- Why is lower vacancy not pushing up office rents?
- Office-based employment growth may have peaked
- IPF Consensus Forecasts
- IHS Markit/CIPS Construction PMI (Aug.)
- Lending to commercial property (Jul.)
- What does the health of tenants suggest for investors?
- A cross-check on our all-property yield forecast
- No rebound in investment activity expected this year
- Overseas demand to be soft regardless of £ moves
- RICS Commercial Property Market Survey (Q2)
- RICS Construction Market Survey (Q2)
- Bank of England highlights risk to commercial property
- A wider ‘new normal’ property to bond yield spread?
- How our Brexit scenarios could impact UK property
- Logistics road traffic points to lower industrial demand
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