Deloitte's latest CFO Survey offers compelling evidence of corporate expansion and, importantly, future employment growth. This will play a crucial role in the next stage of the property market cycle as businesses expand their workforces and their commercial property requirements.

Over a third of respondents state that introducing new products or services or entering into new markets will be a strong priority over the next 12 months, while appetite for risk is at the highest level since the survey began in 2007.

The results back up our view that the drivers of property performance are shifting from capital growth, fuelled in recent years by strong yield compression, towards a greater contribution from rental growth. Indeed, we are already recording rising office rents in a number of the locations that we monitor, and these positive messages from UK corporates raise the likelihood that this rental growth will spread to other markets across the UK.

The Deloitte CFO Survey is essential reading for anyone interested in the outlook for the UK economy. The survey is distributed each quarter among major companies in the UK, and is the only survey that measures attitudes to valuations, risk and financing of these major corporate users of capital. Among the 118 CFOs who participated in the Q3 Survey – the 29th edition - were 28 from FTSE 100 companies.

Click for more information on the latest survey, including a video by Deloitte's chief economist Ian Stewart, a slide pack and the survey data itself.

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