Although UK property investors have seen their holdings decline on average 11.4 per cent in the last five years, there is a growing belief that commercial returns in 2013 and beyond will be more impressive. Tens of thousands of investors lost considerable amounts of cash following the property crash in 2007 and 2008 and with that came plummeting property values...

A recent seminar on the future of the Midlands property market has predicted a new wave of demand for quality office space in Birmingham, with the prospect of a 'perfect storm' now a realistic possibility. Rates of demand are expected to increase within the next two years but Jonathan Carmalt, director of Jones Lang LaSalle, believes it could be another...

Despite wavering economic growth, improving demand for office space in key regions of the UK is providing a welcome boost for the commercial property market. Total office space take-up volumes across six key markets, Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds and Manchester was up four per cent in 2012, and is expected to develop further, according to Jeremy Richard, director at...

2013 is expected to mark the bottoming-out of the UK commercial property market, with recovery expected towards the end of the year, according to the latest real estate predictions from Deloitte. The downward trend of the nation's commercial capital values is forecast to be no more, as investors seek to focus their attention outside of their core markets for the...

New research from BNP Paribas Real Estate has indicated the total take-up of office space from new tenants in London increased by 10 per cent in Q4 2012 compared with the previous quarter. Although take-up in a number of London submarkets throughout the final quarter of 2012 declined, the City continued to prosper, where take-up rose by an impressive 45...

A new report indicates the quantity of new office space under construction in London has grown from seven million sq ft in the third quarter of last year to nine million sq ft in the same period in 2012. The Drivers Jones Deloitte Crane survey found the amount of new office space in the City rose 15 per cent, going...

The latest report from the UK's largest property lending survey from De Montfort University, Leicester, indicates the UK's commercial property sector is paying back its debts from the previous 'boom' years at a slow but steady pace. Loans held against commercial property across the United Kingdom fell by 4.3 per cent in the first six months of 2012, to a...

Chancellor, George Osborne's Autumn Statement last week revealed some promising news for the UK commercial property market, with increasing hope for growth according to global real estate services firm, Jones Lang LaSalle. They claim the decision to exempt all newly built commercial property in the UK completed between October 1st 2013 and September 30th 2016 from empty property rates for...

London has continued to outperform its rival global cities as the city of choice for global capital, according to Jones Lang LaSalle in the annual Central London Office seminar held this week. However, despite being the most dynamic and desired of the influential cities across the world, it has been made clear the English capital must not become complacent and...

Despite a fall in confidence across the UK commercial property sector as a result of the weaker economic backdrop and the continued Eurozone crisis, the country's major business investors remain committed to funding the sector by sourcing opportunities that add long term value, according to a new survey. The latest Commercial Property Confidence Monitor produced by Lloyds Bank Wholesale Banking...