Politics

"The incoming Welsh Minister for Enterprise, Connectivity and Energy, Adam Price, has already established a new economic target that aims to halve the gap in GVA between Wales and the UK. "

"Following Senedd elections on 7 May 2026, Plaid Cymru emerged with the most seats (43 out of 96, six short of a majority) and formed a minority government with Rhun ap Iorwerth at the helm as first minister of Wales. "

"Despite many of the measures in today’s budget having been heavily trailed before Rachel Reeves gave her speech, there were still a few ‘rabbit out of a hat’ moments and important points of clarification which came out of it."

"At the start of the year the Labour party quoted that a new deal for farmers had to be delivered as over 6,000 agricultural businesses had ceased since 2017."

"We expect the pace and scale of interest rate cuts to have a more significant impact on the market than the timing or outcome of the general election, not least because of the short odds on a change in government."

"2024 will be dominated by election politics. We analyse what Great Britain’s major political parties are pledging that could impact agricultural land values"

"An uncertain global and domestic political climate has led us to push out the recovery in the prime central London market by a further 12 months"

"It depends largely on the stage of the property cycle they inherit."

"Commercial property remains attractive despite the Scottish independence referendum, an EU referendum and two general elections since 2014."