Europe Commercial Property Outlook Euro-zone property at a turning point The economic backdrop to euro-zone commercial property markets continues to deteriorate. Our forecasts, that all member states will experience some falls in economic output next year, appear to be on... 8th November 2012 · 1 min read
Europe Commercial Property Outlook Euro-zone property to underperform The unfolding recession in the euro-zone has considerably further to run. And it does not bode well for commercial property. Occupier demand will weaken and most markets will see fresh falls in rental... 8th August 2012 · 1 min read
Europe Commercial Property Outlook Recession to act as a drag on occupier markets and rents Over the past few months we have seen little reason to alter in either direction our euro-zone commercial property forecasts. With no resolution in sight to the region’s debt crisis, we think that all... 2nd May 2012 · 1 min read
Europe Commercial Property Outlook On the cusp of a fresh downturn The recovery in capital values seen in most euro-zone property markets over the past year or so, looks set to be reversed in 2012. As the economy slides back into a deep recession, occupier demand... 26th January 2012 · 1 min read
Europe Commercial Property Outlook Capital values to fall back in 2012 and 2013 We expect the euro-zone to fall back into recession in 2012 and 2013. We have therefore cut our commercial property forecasts to reflect the weaker economic backdrop. Over the next two years, we... 10th November 2011 · 1 min read
Europe Commercial Property Outlook Europe’s fiscal crisis will dent the occupier market recovery The weakening economic outlook for the euro-zone economy is likely to act as a brake on the recovery in commercial property markets over the next year or two. Rental value growth will moderate in most... 5th August 2011 · 1 min read
Europe Commercial Property Outlook Too soon to look for a recovery in peripheral markets Since our previous Analyst we have become a little more optimistic about the potential for returns in some of the core euro-zone commercial property markets such as Germany, France and Belgium, as... 20th April 2011 · 1 min read
Europe Commercial Property Outlook Commercial property recovery to run out of steam in 2011 Much of the coverage of the wider fall-out from the crisis in Egypt has focused on the potential impact on oil prices, but this threat to the global recovery is almost certainly exaggerated. Instead... 28th January 2011 · 1 min read
Europe Commercial Property Outlook Income returns hold the key for the next two years (Q4 10) We suspect that euro-zone commercial property yields may fall a little further by the end of this year. However, the bulk of the investment market recovery may well be behind us. Subdued economic... 6th October 2010 · 1 min read
Europe Commercial Property Outlook Mixed economic growth prospects point to divergent property returns (Vol 2 2010) The euro-zone commercial property market outlook has been clouded by the sovereign debt crisis, but some markets are more exposed than others. Our latest forecasts envisage a growing divergence among... 1st July 2010 · 1 min read
Europe Commercial Property Outlook Falling yields to bring an end to capital value declines in 2010 (Vol.1 2010) The euro-zone commercial property outlook improved markedly during the second half of 2009. It now seems probable that almost all markets will experience positive total returns in 2010, with Spain and... 4th January 2010 · 1 min read
Europe Commercial Property Outlook Euro-zone commercial property yields still have some way to rise (Q2 2009) Our forecasts for euro-zone commercial property markets have not been altered significantly from those we released in March. (See European Commercial Property Focus, “Euro-zone capital values to fall... 13th July 2009 · 1 min read
Europe Commercial Property Outlook Smaller markets to outperform during the correction (Q1 2009) Over the next two years, falling capital values, generated by rising yields mean that total returns are likely to be low or even negative in many Euro-zone property markets with the smaller markets... 10th December 2008 · 1 min read
