Occupiers more concerned about Brexit, but taking space anyway
Each year CBRE conducts an extensive survey of our major occupier clients in Europe (main findings here). For the last three years we have included a question about the impact of Brexit (in all its guises) on clients’ operations. This blog reveals the results for the...
Finding Value for Geared Investors
Where can investors use gearing to achieve stronger returns? We have talked previously of the changes in pricing of debt over 2018. Here we examine the extent to which required capital growth has changed, and whether investors are likely to achieve...
Commercial Property Lending Terms in 2018: A Retrospective
This blog looks at how the cost of debt changed across Europe during 2018. The cost of borrowing fell in most European countries in 2018, the latest information from CBRE’s European Debt Map confirms. Using terms for senior lending on prime offices as...
Offices
Regional office market expectations in 2019
2018 was an outstanding year of office take-up across the UK regional and SE office markets. Can 2019 reach the same dizzying heights? CBRE’s new UK Office Property Perspective reveals record breaking take-up activity (of nearly 7.5 million sq ft) in...
Smarter Cities 2025
The term “smart” can be a prefix for a whole host of things: phones, motorways, tickets, cards, buildings. And also cities, many of which are making concerted attempts to become smarter as a way of generating a range of economic, social, cultural and...
UK offices: the return of the public sector
Over the past three years, HMRC have taken over 2.2 million sq ft of new office space across 11 regional centres. But have these deals been pivotal to the success of the UK regional office markets or have they simply added to the already growing...
Retail
Outlet centres outperform wider retail market
The outlet sector is continuing to outperform wider retail. In this blog we outline the key themes of this success. The outlet sector is continuing to outperform wider retail. The flexible lease structure, with strong landlord controls and the capacity...
What’s behind UK Retail’s Perfect Storm?
We recently published a new report describing the “perfect storm” that UK retailers are currently facing. The adverse circumstances contributing to this perfect storm are a combination of structural, cyclical and temporary factors. In this blog I...
Budget 2018: Chancellor papers over the cracks in the high street
The Chancellor’s main announcements on business rates, high streets, and a digital services tax amount to a concerted attempt to rescue the high street. Or do they? The Chancellor’s latest Budget contained, on the face of it, a range of useful measures...
Industrial
Big Becoming Less Beautiful
This blog explores what CBRE’s three different industrial rental indices tell us about the changing pattern of supply and tenant demand across the UK industrial market over the last seven years. CBRE produces a range of indices of performance on the...
Is Brexit stockpiling driving warehouse demand? Part two
In this blog (the second of two) we explore different concerns raised over future trade disruptions and the potential consequences of Brexit for logistics space demand. How Brexit finally affects logistics demand in the long term will mainly depend on...
Is Brexit stockpiling driving warehouse demand? Part one
In this blog (the first of two) we look at claims that the UK logistics sector is running out of warehouse space as companies stockpile goods in case of a ‘no deal Brexit’. Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, recently told the Treasury select...
Residential
2018 UK Market Outlook: Residential Investment
There’s been a significant increase in investment into the UK Build to Rent (BtR) in 2017. But what’s the outlook for 2018 and beyond? In previous blogs I’ve written about the significant increase in BtR investment in 2017, and the changing distribution...
UK Build-to-Rent investment 2017 – where did the money go?
Investment into the UK Build to Rent (BtR) has been booming – but where was the money invested in 2017? I’ve blogged in a previous post about the burgeoning BtR investment market, noting some of the key deals. But 2017 was also a change from 2016 in...
UK Residential investment 2017 review
As we move into 2018, we look back on investment into the Build to Rent (BtR) sector in 2017. How much was invested? Where was it invested? And what’s the outlook for 2018? CBRE recorded a total £2.4bn of institutional investment into the residential...
Investment
Finding Value for Geared Investors
Where can investors use gearing to achieve stronger returns? We have talked previously of the changes in pricing of debt over 2018. Here we examine the extent to which required capital growth has changed, and whether investors are likely to achieve...
Commercial Property Lending Terms in 2018: A Retrospective
This blog looks at how the cost of debt changed across Europe during 2018. The cost of borrowing fell in most European countries in 2018, the latest information from CBRE’s European Debt Map confirms. Using terms for senior lending on prime offices as...
PBSA: Application’s What You Need
In this blog, we explore the relationship between student applications and PBSA asset performance, in light of the most recent UCAS statistics on student applications for 2018/19. When we released the CBRE Student Accommodation Index covering...