PREDICTION season is nearly over and generally forecasters have been pretty gloomy in their outlook.

Jones Lang LaSalle’s head of offices Jon Carmalt predicted that take up in the Birmingham city centre office market this year is likely to be between 550,000 and 600,000 sq ft compared to 670,000 sq ft in 2011.

Now Jon’s a West Brom fan and they do tend to be glass half empty merchants but it’s hard to argue with his reasoning on this one. As he says, occupier sentiment is weaker than it was 12 ......for the full story register now for free or login below...