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Report | Creating Resilience
UK Residential Market Trends Q4 2023
CBRE’s Q4 2023 UK Residential Market Trends explores the latest developments in the sales and rental market. Activity in the sales market remains subdued. At the headline level, house prices were broadly stable, but performance differs across the country with several regions recording house price falls. In contrast, private rental prices have continued to rise amidst low supply and elevated tenant demand. Explore our full analysis for more.
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Report | Creating Resilience
Prime Central London Residential Market Trends Q3 2023
CBRE’s Prime Central London (PCL) Market Trends presents the latest sales and lettings trends in the market. There were smaller price reductions in Q3 compared to Q2, and homes sold faster this quarter; the average PCL yield is also at its highest level since Q1 2011. Explore more in the full report.
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Report | Creating Resilience
Office to Residential Conversion in London: The Opportunity & Challenge
With a shortfall of 90,000 homes over the last decade, CBRE’s latest report explores the opportunities and challenges of office-to-residential conversions to help boost housing supply in London. Read the report for our full findings.
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Report | Creating Resilience
How is vertical farming evolving as a real estate asset class?
CBRE’s latest report explores vertical farming, a practice that involves multi-level crop production within a controlled environment and is an alternative to traditional farming with the potential to be more sustainable. Learn about the opportunities and challenges vertical farming poses for UK real estate in the full report.
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Report | Creating Resilience
London New Build Market Report September 2023
CBRE's report provides an overview of the latest trends in London’s new build Residential market. Prime Central London sales have been robust in H1 2023, but construction volume continues to shrink, and overseas buyers are making up a greater proportion of new build sales following the removal of Help-to-Buy. Explore our full findings in the report.
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Report | Creating Resilience
How will a changing working age population impact UK real estate?
CBRE’s latest report reviews demographic trends, projecting the UK working age population to decline over the next 20 years. We investigate how this change will impact the real estate sector by examining growth in major cities and Government policy effects. Explore our findings in the full report.
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Article | Creating Resilience
Why are landlords leaving the rental market?
Being a residential landlord has become increasingly difficult in recent years. First, the additional rate of stamp duty for second properties was introduced in 2016. This was followed by the phasing out of mortgage interest relief between 2017/18 and 2020/21.
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Report | Creating Resilience
European Logistics Occupier Survey 2023
The European Logistics Occupier Survey aggregates responses only from the largest logistics occupiers from all sectors, making the findings very useful in understanding the future demand for logistics real estate.
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Article | Creating Resilience
European Residential Regulatory Tool
The tool allows you to compare Residential regulations between countries, find details on taxes, rent indexation, rent price regulation, lease regulation, legal dynamics, social governance and zoning.
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Article | Creating Resilience
Will the proposed Renters Reform Bill reform the rental sector?
The UK Government has introduced to parliament new legislation, the Renters Reform Bill (RRB), designed to make the private rental sector (PRS) fairer.
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Article | Creating Resilience
How do green real estate lending terms affect behaviour?
In this article, we explore how green lending terms are structured, what effect they have, and how such terms might evolve in the future.
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Article | Creating Resilience
What affects the price of a green real estate loan?
The price differential between green loans and traditional loans depends on a range of factors and is changing all the time as understanding of risks evolves. In this article, we investigate why.
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Local Response | Creating Resilience
Has the pandemic permanently changed where commuters want to live?
The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a significant behavioural shift for many households across the country. Working from home became the temporary norm throughout lockdowns which led to many people revaluating the type of property they wanted to live in and where they wanted to live.
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Article | Creating Resilience
Challenges to the HMO market could lead to increased pressure in the PBSA market
Houses of Multiple Occupancy (HMOs) are a key accommodation option for students who are unable to rent a room in Purpose-Built Student Accommodation (PBSA).
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UK Mid Year Market Outlook 2023

UK Mid Year Market Outlook 2023
We entered 2023 under the spectre of a moderate recession, with high inflation and rising interest rates putting downward pressure on growth.
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