Gráinne Gilmore
Director of research & insights
Gráinne is director of research & insight. Before joining Cluttons she held positions at Zoopla, as head of research, and at Knight Frank where she was head of UK residential research, leading the teams producing insights on all aspects of UK sales, lettings, residential development and the specialist BTR, student and later living housing sectors. Gráinne started her career at The Times, where she was an award-winning finance and economics journalist.
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Commercial market update Autumn 2023
Will they? Won’t they? This is the key question around whether the UK’s base rate will exceed 5.75%. There have been enough mixed messages to muddy the waters – inflation data released in June showed that inflation was stuck at 8.7% in May, which prompted forecasts that the base rate would peak at 6.5% from the current rate of 5.25%.
Office market update Autumn 2023
UK office vacancy rate continues to climb. Weak demand and strong supply are resulting in an ever-rising vacancy rate for offices across the UK, which has hit 7.7%, up from less than 5% before the pandemic.
Retail market update Autumn 2023
The retail environment remains challenging. The rising cost of living, and recent disappointing weather have led to a further tick down in overall sales.
Industrial market update Autumn 2023
Vacancy rate remains low. Net absorption of industrial space dipped into negative territory in Q2 2023 for the first time in 11 years as take up fell back to levels last seen before the pandemic.
Commercial market update Q2 2023
The UK’s economic mood music has been more upbeat so far this year than many would have anticipated in the wake of the mini-budget last year. This culminated in the IMF, traditionally circumspect about the UK’s economic outlook, confirming in late May that the country would not enter recession this year, contrary to its earlier forecasts.
Office market update Q2 2023
Office take-up gained some momentum towards the end of Q1 as employees continue to return to the workplace in greater numbers. But overall demand for office space remains muted compared to historical norms.
Retail market update Q2 2023
Retail sales fell back in May after rising slightly in April, according to a survey from the CBI, but the overall outlook is slightly more upbeat than at the beginning of the year as consumer confidence continues to climb and the prospect of lower energy bills is factored in.
Industrial market update Q2 2023
Average industrial property yields, according to MSCI, which softened sharply last year remained largely unchanged in Q1 2023, as the market absorbed the new economic landscape in the UK.
UK economic outlook Q2 2023
Higher than expected inflation dampens expectations for UK economy. Inflation data was higher than expected in May, which has weighed on business confidence, and has pushed interest rate expectations, and the cost of borrowing, higher.
UK & London lettings market update Q2 2023
Rents continue to rise, but the pace of growth is beginning to ease in many regions. Tight levels of supply are still underpinning rental growth.
UK & London sales market update Q2 2023
March marked the seventh consecutive month of monthly price falls in house prices across the UK, taking the annual decline to 3.1%.
Commercial market update Q1 2023
The bond vs property yield spread ticked up in Q4 but remains nearly the narrowest in a decade.
Retail market update Q1 2023
Retail sales ticked up slightly in January but are still down on a three-monthly basis from the post-pandemic highs in the summer of 2021.
Industrial market update Q1 2023
The strong performance in this sector over the last few years mean that the upheaval caused by rising interest rates and the September’s mini-budget, which caused a surge in gilt yields, was more pronounced than other sectors.
Office market update Q1 2023
UK office vacancy rate rises, but masks a two-tier market.