December’s snow may have distorted the data, but the latest RICS survey nevertheless showed that commercial property, driven by London’s office market, was the only sector to see a rise in construction activity in the final stages of last year. But even here, given general uncertainty and the soft outlook for the economy, we doubt that development pipelines will rise significantly further.
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