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Do office and retail property share a common fair-value benchmark?

One simple assumption that we have employed to date in our analysis of European commercial property markets is that, in any given market, the fair-value property/bond yield spread for office and retail property can be assumed to be the same. Evidence from major European markets generated by the unfolding correction suggests that, in many cases, this simple rule of thumb is not unreasonable, but there are exceptions.

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