Europe Commercial Property Update Is Warsaw's office market facing a period of excess supply? Agency estimates of a huge development pipeline seem to suggest that Warsaw’s office market faces a period of excess supply. After all, economic sentiment in Poland is deteriorating, and occupier... 1st October 2012 · 1 min read
UK Commercial Property Data Response Lending to commercial property (Aug.) August was the ninth consecutive month of negative net commercial property lending flows. Unfortunately, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that tough conditions in the property lending market are set... 1st October 2012 · 1 min read
UK Commercial Property Update Survey highlights downside risks to London office rents in 2013 On past form, the weakness of today’s CBI/PwC Financial Services Survey suggests that, over the next nine to 12 months, Central London office rental values could fall by as much as 10%. To us, that... 1st October 2012 · 1 min read
UK Commercial Property Update Survey highlights downside risks to London office rents in 2013 On past form, the weakness of today’s CBI/PwC Financial Services Survey suggests that, over the next nine to 12 months, Central London office rental values could fall by as much as 10%. To us, that... 1st October 2012 · 1 min read
Europe Commercial Property Update Cheap relative rents driving Frankfurt retail occupier appeal Recent evidence shows that the Frankfurt retail market is seeing very strong occupier demand. But this demand seems to be driven more by the low level of Frankfurt retail rents relative to the... 27th September 2012 · 1 min read
Europe Commercial Property Update Amsterdam headline office rents still insulated by incentives Increased use of rental incentives seems to have had a powerful dampening effect on the response of headline office rents in Amsterdam to swings – both up and down – in the vacancy rate. The... 25th September 2012 · 1 min read
UK Commercial Property Data Response Institutional Investment in Property (Q2) Official data show that a run of net buying of property by UK investing institutions came to an end in Q2. And Property Archive data show that this net selling continued in July and August. Experience... 25th September 2012 · 1 min read
UK Commercial Property Update Downside risks to Central London office rents in 2013 dominate A simple projection for demand, supply and vacancy rates suggests that our forecasts for 5% falls in Central London office rents in both 2013 and 2014 remain on track. There is a risk that those falls... 20th September 2012 · 1 min read
Europe Commercial Property Focus In which German city is the office rental outlook best? Over the next five years we think that, with regard to the outlook for rental values, the composition of its occupier base and its low level of rental values means that, on average, Frankfurt is... 20th September 2012 · 1 min read
Europe Commercial Property Update What is the outlook for Istanbul retail rents? Reports that retail rents in Istanbul have fallen by about 6% over the past year seem consistent with the sharp slowdown in consumer spending and the large boost to supply last year. But if we are... 19th September 2012 · 1 min read
UK Commercial Property Focus The Central London shop boom: when and how will it end? The current boom in Central London standard shop capital values will eventually be put into reverse by a rise in yields. The most likely catalyst for this is shaping up to be a resolution of the euro... 19th September 2012 · 1 min read
Europe Commercial Property Update Will office take-up continue to rise in Amsterdam and Brussels? The sharp rise in office take-up seen over the past six months in both Amsterdam and Brussels is unlikely to be sustained over the next 15 months or so. In fact, we think that take-up will fall as... 14th September 2012 · 1 min read
UK Commercial Property Data Response Financial and business services sector jobs (Q2) The number of financial & business services (FBS) sector jobs hit a new record high in Q2. With new development completions set to be high next year and in 2014, fresh falls in Central London office... 12th September 2012 · 1 min read
Europe Commercial Property Update Will Prague retail rents continue to rise? The rise in Prague retail rents seen over the past year or so is unlikely to be sustained over the next 18 months. But even though we think the consumer spending outlook will remain weak, the... 12th September 2012 · 1 min read
UK Commercial Property Update No need to panic about recent surge in transactions-based yields Property Archive’s transactions-based all-property yield recently rose to its highest level since mid-2009. However, not least because the office sector has comparatively high yields and its share of... 11th September 2012 · 1 min read
UK Commercial Property Data Response IPF Consensus Forecasts (Q3) The latest IPF Consensus forecasts contained few revisions from the previous survey. Capital values are still expected to drop by up to 5% this year, edge a little lower next year and then start to... 7th September 2012 · 1 min read
