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UK commercial property investments suffered a record fall in the last three months of 2007, according to IPD.

While the release of further UK property housing stock over the last decade has helped to control the ongoing property boom, demand still far out weighs supply - especially in the more affluent south of England, where the majority of overseas investment is applied. Shrewd investors also need to keep a watchful eye of the state of the government's new home information pack system.

However, over the last few years we have seen areas such as Edinburgh and Glasgow in Scotland; continue to increase their profile which has resulted in some fairly large property price rises in these areas.  This pattern has been repeated in a number of the more business central areas of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.  

 

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the UK) is a    made up of four countries of immense diversity, tradition and culture. Beautiful countryside, islands, moors, craggy mountains and cliffs, rolling hills, shorelines and beaches, it has scenery as varied as its people. The UK investment property may include any one of the four individual countries that make up the United Kingdom: England; Scotland; Wales and Northern Ireland. There are also a number of islands, in particular the Scottish island groups of the Shetlands and the Orkneys, the English Scilly Isles and Isle of Wight and the Welsh island of Anglesey. The British Isles are to be found off the western extremity of continental Europe, separated from it by the English Channel and the North Sea. 

Prior to the election of the present Labour Government, the UK property market had tended to move in very cyclical patterns with significant (short term) boom and busts episodes.  Over the last 10 years this particular trait has faded and the UK property investment market has been on a general upturn for some time.  The release of significant numbers of social housing over the last decade has helped to flatten the natural boom and bust curve.