The starting point for this paper is the argument that increased weight of money into commercial property in this decade has led to a convergence of UK provincial city office yields. The paper begins by reviewing the concept of a property yield cycle and the notion of a city risk premium, and...

Interest in international property investment can be traced back to the early 1970s with the collapse of the Bretton Woods fixed exchange rate system, the oil price shock of 1973 and the need to recycle petroleum wealth, all of which marked a sea-change in the global economy (Worzala, 1994:...