RICS survey shows upturn in commercial sector

摘要

Rents in the UK commercial property sector have started rising for the first time in three years, according to research by the RICS. Rental growth rose 2.2 in February, with the biggest growth recorded in the retail sector. In the office sector - the sub-set of the commercial sector that has been worst hit by the economic downturn - rents in the quarter to February 2005 flattened out for the first time since January 2002.