Europe Commercial Property Chart Pack Further slowdown in capital value growth ahead Although euro-zone rental value growth slowed in 2019, further falls in property yields supported capital values. Despite the soft economic backdrop, capital value growth should hold up in coming... 21st February 2020 · 9 mins read
Europe Commercial Property Update Prague offices to still outperform CEE Despite softer occupier activity and an increasing pipeline of supply, we think that demand will be strong enough to prop up office rental growth over the next two years. That said, given that we now... 18th February 2020 · 3 mins read
Europe Commercial Property Update Euro-zone property investment to hold up in 2020 The latest data revealed that commercial property investment in the euro-zone held steady at a record high level. And with favourable relative pricing and capital readily available, we think that... 6th February 2020 · 2 mins read
Europe Commercial Property Update Euro-zone property yield falls to continue We still think that the ECB will loosen policy this year, albeit by a little less than we had previously pencilled in. But with interest rates and bond yields still set to remain at historic lows... 31st January 2020 · 3 mins read
Europe Commercial Property Update Softer employment growth to drag on occupier activity After holding up despite the slowdown in economic activity, we expect jobs growth in office-based sectors to lose momentum over the next two years, weighing on occupier demand. This underpins our... 22nd January 2020 · 3 mins read
Europe Commercial Property Update Weakness to spread across Nordic retail sector As the slowdown in household spending and the growth in e-commerce weighs on prime retail rents, we think that rents will fall in all Nordic cities this year. 15th January 2020 · 3 mins read
Europe Commercial Property Update How did our predictions for 2019 stack up? While we could have been bolder with our forecast for rental growth in Europe, in particular Nordic offices, on the whole our forecasts for 2019 proved to be correct. 7th January 2020 · 3 mins read
Europe Commercial Property Update Paltry office rental growth in Turkey Despite a weaker lira, Istanbul prime office rents have, perhaps surprisingly, held up in the last two years. We expect them to hold steady over the next two years, but beyond 2021, we forecast... 23rd December 2019 · 2 mins read
Non-Euro Europe Commercial Property Outlook Weaker outlook for occupier demand A weaker outlook for bond yields in Scandinavia and Switzerland means that falls in office and industrial yields are likely to extend into 2021. However, with rental prospects weak and yields rising... 13th December 2019 · 33 mins read
Europe Commercial Property Outlook Lower yields to support capital values We expect a further slowdown in euro-zone economic growth in 2020 to weigh on rental growth. However, with interest rates set to be cut next year and remain at this low level, there isn’t likely to be... 5th December 2019 · 30 mins read
Europe Commercial Property Update 2021 to mark last year of falls in CEE property yields We think that while yield compression across CEE markets has further to go in the next two years, property yields will rise beyond 2021 as tighter monetary policy in the region feeds through. 29th November 2019 · 3 mins read
Europe Commercial Property Update Still some upside for German prime industrial rents While the manufacturing downturn has not helped the industrial sector in Germany at a national level, growing e-commerce means that prime industrial rents will still muster some growth over the next... 22nd November 2019 · 3 mins read
Non-Euro Europe Commercial Property Chart Pack Low rates supportive of further yield compression Despite the softness in economic activity, occupier demand generally held up in Q3. And while there are signs that the cyclical slowdown in the euro-zone is starting to hit CEE markets, given their... 15th November 2019 · 9 mins read
Europe Commercial Property Chart Pack Falls in yields support capital value growth A fall in office and industrial yields supported all-property capital value growth in Q3. However, the slowdown in the retail sector weighed on all-property rental growth. With economic growth... 15th November 2019 · 10 mins read
Europe Commercial Property Update Nordic offices to outperform despite lower withdrawals Office-to-residential conversions in the Nordic capitals have started to lose their appeal given the pick-up in office capital values and softening in house prices. However, we don’t think that this... 1st November 2019 · 3 mins read
Europe Commercial Property Update No upside for Dublin retail rents While the risk of a no deal Brexit has diminished, lingering uncertainty and structural headwinds are likely to put downward pressure on prime retail rents in Dublin over the next two years. 29th October 2019 · 3 mins read
