We believe that debt-backed retail and international investors will remain a permanent fixture in the UK’s commercial property market. Their presence will make abrupt yield shifts, like that which we are currently seeing, more common. Shorter and sharper market adjustments will not necessarily affect average future total returns, but they will make them more volatile relative to their own past and to their historical position against other asset classes.
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