Commercial property bust building as well?

Advertisement

Via the AFR:

Commercial property returns across offices, malls and warehouses will halve over the next five years as weaknesses in leasing markets are “exposed” and rising bond and interest rates push down property yields and values, a new report says.

In Sydney, total returns generated from office investments are forecast to fall from an average of 18 per cent per achieved over the past five years, to just over 8 per cent between now and 2023.

The full text of this article is available to MacroBusiness subscribers

$1 for your first month, then:
Cancel at any time through our billing provider, Stripe
About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.