All Commentary articles – Page 169
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Brexit and its impact on the UK Property Market
The impact of the EU leaving the UK is difficult to ascertain with precision given that there is no historic precedent.
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Global Economic Overview: Spring 2016
The world economy stumbled in 2015, amid weak aggregate demand, falling commodity prices and increasing economic volatility in major countries. The world GDP grew by 3.1% vs. 3.4% in 2014.
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UK Economy Overview
The UK finished 2015 ahead of many developed economies with the economy growing by 2.2%pa. Going forward Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) forecasts close to the long-term average economic growth of 2.0% in 2016 and 2.2% in 2017.
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European Real Estate Summary: Edition 2 2016
Since the beginning of 2016 global capital and financial markets have been on a roller coaster. On the back of slowing economic growth in Emerging Markets (EM) many European sentiment surveys moved southward, suggesting a slowdown in European economic activity as well.
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Market Report: Photovoltaics H1 2016
Anyone reading various media publications on the European photovoltaics industry during the first quarter of 2016 might have concluded that photovoltaics was on a downward slope.
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Investment Case for UK PRS
The UK private rented sector (PRS) has doubled in size in the past decade and is now increasingly attracting the attention of pension funds, insurers and other institutions.
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Tomorrow's office markets
Not all UK cities are equally well equipped to cope with 21st century economic conditions, in particular the ongoing shift to a knowledge-based service economy facilitated by technological developments.
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European Real Estate Market: Brexit Update (April 2016)
A vote to remain continues to be the more likely outcome and GRE research believes that the likelihood of this has increased marginally after Cameron achieved his reforms in Brussels.
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Perspective: Global Volatility, The Real Economy, and Real Estate
Bouts of financial market volatility likely to return
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UK Real Estate Outlook: 1H16
Expectations for UK economic growth have undergone some fairly significant downward revisions over the past six months.
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Eurozone Real Estate Outlook: 1H16
The economic outlook for the eurozone has become increasingly polarized between the relatively positive domestically driven recovery, which drove GDP growth above expectations in 2015, and the decidedly negative global economic headwinds and geopolitical risks that have risen in prominence over the past six months.
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UK Debt Real Estate Market: February 2016 Update
Interest Rate Volatility, Fair Value and Underlying Portfolio Performance
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China’s property market in transition
As China transitions to a service-based economy, this paper looks at the potential implications for commercial real estate and identifies which areas of the market are likely to prosper as a result.
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Market Report: Aviation H1 2016
Continuous growth and oil prices at their lowest level since 2004 are creating an encouraging climate for the aviation sector.
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China Real Estate Market: Taking stock and looking ahead
Long-term structural gains in property sector dynamics amid ongoing noise and idiosyncrasies
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UK Real Estate Market: January 2016 Update
As prime yields hit record lows, is there relative value in secondary in the UK?
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European Real Estate Market: January 2016 Update
How low oil price may impact Middle East investments into commercial European real estate
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Real Estate Market Outlook UK - January 2016
The UK economy looks set to record a healthy pace of growth in 2016, continuing to expand at a much faster rate than the majority of advanced economies.
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Global Real Estate Securities – 2015 Performance Review and 2016 Market Outlook
2015 was a challenging year for the broader markets overall as macro-economic and political events dominated news headlines causing lackluster investment performance across most asset classes around the world. The collapse in oil prices (-30.5%) played havoc on countries and currencies reliant on energy exports.
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Key risks for global real estate in 2016
Aided by extremely loose global monetary policy, capital values have experienced a strong recovery since the crisis. We believe this period of very strong capital growth has largely run its course and the window to capture significant yield compression is passing quickly, says Sandip Bhalsod.