Entries for the 'Property Forecast' Category

An assessment of the emergency Budget proposals and their likely impacts on property in particular

Inevitably there have been wide variations in the reaction to the emergency budget. From a property market perspective it is a mixed picture

Consumer confidence and spending are likely to be undermined in the medium-term. The question is: by how much? Are we in for a double-dip or just a lengthy period of mild contraction?

The final IPF-commissioned report on European property depreciation confirmed that despite all of the thought and analysis on the subject, the answers are not sensible and data quality so poor as to be meaningless

Gordon Brown didn’t like using the word but cuts, repeat CUTS, are the order of the day not only for Big Government, which is to see its branches painfully pruned, but for most businesses and families too

The Con-Lib coalition government may have many conflicting views but on the issues of the environment and sustainability they at least appear to be reading from the same book, if not the exact same page

It is ironic that the recent announcement from the FSA heralding much tighter checks on the ‘disposable income’ of those seeking a mortgage, coincided with some relatively good news from the Bank of England’s Trends in Lending report

Alex Neal of Colliers CRE explains why the Government has decided to allow the time limits for planning permission to be extended

Lawrence Telford, director of Coffer Corporate Leisure, gives a round-up of prospects in the leisure property sector, which has suffered more than most in the current recession.

The government and the commercial property sector both must look harder at the needs of businesses, argues Mark Dixon, founder and CEO of Regus