This paper examines the evolution of the commercial property investment market over the last thirty years. The empirical core of this paper will quantify the changing nature of liquidity and transactions activity in the commercial property investment market in the UK since 1981 based on the IPD...

The last three decades have seen substantial change in real estate portfolios of financial institutions. This paper begins by first charting this restructuring of the institutional real estate portfolio between industrial, offices and retail classes over the last thirty years in the UK. This...