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Increased use of rental incentives to set back office rent recovery

An increase in rent-free periods on typical office leases in some European markets helps to explain why headline rents have recently been less responsive to changing occupier demand conditions than might otherwise have been expected. These incentives will need to be unwound before headline rents start to rise meaningfully. But that is still some way off given that occupier demand is still softening.

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