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A commercial property rental downturn looms

Since our previous Commercial Property Analyst was published back in November, dark clouds have gathered over the outlook for the occupier market. We have revised down our forecasts for nominal all-property rental value growth from 1% in both 2008 and 2009 to -2% and -3% respectively. In real terms, those falls would be about 5% each year.

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