Trying to understand how recovery from the pandemic will play out across our property industry is a fast-moving sport right now. Offices? Will anyone ever want to go to one again or will we be back at pre-pandemic occupation levels before the summer is out? What will happen to house prices when the stamp duty holiday is over and all those who stampeded out of London start heading back up the M3, realising that ‘back to normal’ in their market town is not quite what they expected?

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