A fine summer on the South Coast seems to highlight the excellence of the commercial property market - where rents have reached new highs and take-up been healthy.
It makes for a positive scenario in which industrial property has been outstanding with constant heavy demand for sheds, reflecting the reality of online shopping needs for warehouses as well as an expanding economy.
This is only part of the picture. It is the widespread recognition of the vital importance of new technology that pervades the market that is so welcome. Indeed, there is no lack of clever tech companies setting up or expanding in the region, partly helped by the local universities.
There are natural advantages for local businesses that can feed off well-established marine companies as well as the presence of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth, where a new era has opened up with the arrival of the Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier and the growing need for sophisticated technology at the naval base to service the ships.
Unusually for the UK, Southampton city centre appears to have bucked the trend for retailing and according to agents, is a favoured location for many national groups. That does not apply in many places in the UK.
The positive mood in the region within the business and property communities is a boost for growth and is, perhaps, illustrated by the merger of Vail Williams and Hughes Ellard to create a large agency.