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Colm Lauder: Why there are new signs of life for investors in UK property

British real estate investment market conditions improving in early months of 2024

Average rents jumped almost 3 per cent for offices in London’s west end in March 2024

Investors got their first sense of how the UK commercial property market is performing in the early months of 2024 with the release of the industry benchmark MSCI/IPD dataset.

The much-watched monthly index, which contains over £26 billion of professionally managed and independent valued property, recorded an encouraging uptick in performance in March, with capital value declines trimmed to less than 0.2 per cent nationally, indicating one of the best monthly performances since the onset ...