Commercial Investment Activity Review – April 2011
“Aside from two major deals, transaction activity in Q1 2011 was well down on previous quarters, continuing the trend of limited major deals propping up a subdued commercial property market. .”
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Commercial Investment Activity Review – January 2011
“Increased investment activity in Australian commercial property assets in Q4, while pleasing to see, was predominately due to only a handful of high value transactions. Large “one-off” deals continue to prop up .”
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Commercial Investment Activity Review – 2010 Q3
“Investment activity in Q3 was generally in line with Property Intelligence forecasts, with the steady as she goes market being punctuated every now and then by a large “out of the blue” transaction.”
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Commercial Investment Activity Review – 2010 Q2
“While the potential for many high value sales to occur in the second quarter of 2010 was discussed adnauseum in the media, few transactions were actually sealed. Continued uncertainty over Australia’s economic position, debt concerns in Europe, the impact of proposed mining taxes along with the growth of China, have caused investors to pause for a breath. Whilst many investors understand that assets can be picked up at comparatively low values, an upswing in demand is some way off. The uncertainty in economic confidence was illustrated by the minimal improvement in general market activity from Q2 over Q1.”
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Commercial Investment Activity Review – 2010 Q1
“Post the scurry of transactions in late 2010, activity in the commercial property sector has remained relatively sedate during the first quarter of 2010. Even in the light of a rapidly improving economy, access to funds to either purchase assets or pay down debt has been difficult. The larger REITs have raised capital to bolster coffers, while smaller trusts (listed and unlisted) have had to jump through hoops in order to find refinancing sources with the “Big Four Banks” continuing to reduce their exposure to commercial property. The few large transactions that occurred in Q1 2010 were notable by the change in purchaser type and purchaser origin from the preceding 12 months.”
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Commercial Investment Activity Review – January 2010
“The impact of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) continued to thwart commercial property investment in the first half of 2009 as negative sentiment persisted in undermining any form of certainty over the timing of the market bottoming. Towards the middle of the year a sense of stabilisation began to appear as the Australian economy showed signs it was amongst the first of its major trading partners to emerge from the financial crisis. The latter portion of the year was majorly influenced by successive Reserve Bank cash rate increases that gave all a sense that the worst had passed and that we would now be in the early stages of a growth phase”
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