Real estate equities down 40%: will property prices follow suit?

In our view, there is no reason to believe that just because real estate equity prices have fallen by 40% since the start of 2007 IPD capital values will eventually fall by a similar amount. In fact, the slump in real estate equities is actually broadly consistent with our current forecast that capital values will fall from peak to trough by 15%.

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