State of the property market in quarter 4 of 2005

The following are significant findings or conclusions made in this issue of Rode’s Report:

• Capitalization rates continued their decline
• Leaseback escalation rates seem fair
• Income-stream growth of listed funds holds key to future returns
• Real decentralized office rentals continued to decline
• Rentals in most of the major industrial conurbations continued to grow
• Flat-rental growth still not beating building-cost inflation
• House-price growth still has some momentum
• Building-cost inflation expected to remain robust

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