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Corporate bonds comparison suggests property not necessarily cheap

Tenant default and loss of rental income are now perhaps the foremost concerns for commercial property investors. As such, it is far from clear that property is undervalued, even though yields are now a record 400bps or so above government bonds. Indeed, the risk of tenant default priced into property yields seems broadly consistent with the corporate default risk priced into corporate bonds.

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