The key messages about the state of the UK’s property investment market are unchanged on the back of the results from the January IPD Monthly Index: office rental growth is accelerating, retail rental growth is softening and the investment market remains robust, albeit slightly weaker than in the middle of 2006.
The annual total return on the IPD Monthly Index ticked down from 18.1 per cent in December to 17.7 per cent in January thanks to a marked fall in the monthly total return from 1.5 per cent to 0.7 per cent.
