"The story of the commercial property investment markets in 2012 has undoubtedly been the widening gaps between prime, secondary and tertiary yields, with the latter now comfortably over 1,000 bps in some sectors."

"We expect that the full year total for take-up in Manchester this year will exceed last year's take-up of 699,000 sq ft."

"Four transactions over 30,000 sq ft leave year to-date take-up just 6% below average"

"Take-up this quarter pointed to improving occupier demand in line with the outlook noted in our Summer report. Prime core demand (based on deals over 3,000 sq ft) was double that seen the previous quarter with take up of 78,800 sq ft, 11% up on the same period last year."

"UK commercial development activity grew at its strongest rate for 32 months in October. This was driven by a sharp pick up in private sector development across all sectors and regions."

"The deterioration of the country’s economic climate is having a direct knock-on effect on the capital’s office market. Take-up continues to fall, although the take-up figure for Q3 (almost 70,000 sq m) has exceeded expectations, thanks to the completion of several large transactions (space over 5,000 sq m)."

"The structure of the market has changed over the past five years, and house price forecasts will need to respond to an increasingly wide range of factors."

"Our new house price forecasts project forward to 2017. But how do the five years post-credit crunch inform us about the five years ahead?"

"There are wide regional differences across the UK housing market."