Given that official data have already shown that construction output fell in Q4, the negative headline balance from today’s RICS construction survey was no surprise. More interestingly, the sector data suggested that commercial property developers are increasingly cautious about the outlook, which squares with our own view that rental values will soon start to fall again.
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