Nick Kelsall: Watch these spaces

Commercial property view

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With the post-referendum fall-out and growth of e-commerce driving big changes in the commercial property sector, Nick Kelsall highlights some of the likely beneficiaries

In what now seems like a distant memory, the chaos that ensued following the decision to leave the European Union has all but diminished … though we should immediately make clear we are writing purely in the context of the commercial property sector. There, predictions of largescale permanent declines in central London offices have proved to be overdone while investment into the sector as a whole remains at healthy levels. There are still remnants of the fallout, however, with a number of the larger open-ended property funds still pricing at the lower end of their valuing range and holdi...

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