Real Estate Survey 2016: Brexit – mortal blow for bricks and mortar?

UK commercial real estate’s post-Brexit shock has proved short-lived, and high-profile gating of investors in a number of UK real estate funds did not precipitate a flood of copy-cat behaviour. But the long-term outlook for investors and lenders in UK real estate remains extremely uncertain.

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The shock of the UK’s vote to leave the European Union on June 23 had barely sunk in when panic began to grip the country’s commercial property market. 

A number of retail funds suspended redemptions as market participants swapped fears of steep declines in asset prices. Spurred on by a sharp drop in the pound, foreign investors, including US private equity funds, were said to be circling, anticipating a deluge of forced selling at cut-down prices.

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