Jones Lang LaSalle’s UK Property Index for the third quarter shows total returns of 1.3% compared with 0.4% in the previous quarter. The firm notes this is the largest quarterly increase since Q4 2011, but points out that annual returns for 2012 so ... Read more
Jones Lang LaSalle has highlighted in a recent report that the latest Bank of England quarterly lending figures show that UK bank exposure to property fell to its lowest since 2002 in the third quarter. The proportion of lending to property as a ... Read more
Total property returns reached 1.3% in Q3 2012, according to the Jones Lang LaSalle property index, compared with 0.4% for Q2. Although this was the biggest quarterly increase since Q4 2011, annual returns for 2012 so far are still significantly ... Read more
Jones Lang LaSalle does not expect normal patterns of speculative development completions to return to the European commercial property markets for the next five years. It notes in new research that the vast majority of new equity players and ... Read more
Lloyds Banking Group and the Co-operative Group have today announced that they have finally signed heads of terms on the purchase by the Co-op of more than 600 Lloyds bank branches. Lloyds was required to sell off these assets by European regulators, ... Read more
