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Remuneration growth has slowed in European real estate debt markets. But non-bank lenders have narrowed the gap with the big payers in the investment banking sector.

Regional bank failures and vacant offices are causing concerns about the US financial and real estate sectors. Europe’s property finance professionals are watching and considering the implications for their markets.

Panellists at CREFC Europe's Spring Conference discussed Europe's looming debt funding gap.

Banking fortunes are again connected to those of real estate, but any suffering should not be worse during the global financial crisis, suggests Tony Brown, global head of M&G Real Estate.

The multipurpose loan is expected to finance expansion plans of London-based data centre business AtlasEdge.

The Swedish property company’s chief executive says alternative lenders will be thwarted in their attempts to break into the bank-dominated market.

The London business school’s latest UK lending market survey reveals origination was only slightly reduced in 2022 despite economic upheaval.

The listed company, which owns UK assets including popular theme parks, addressed near-term maturities in a bumper refinancing.

With stresses appearing in the financial system, the property sector may become a cause of these as well as suffering the consequences, writes Kiran Raichura, deputy chief property economist at Capital Economics.

The sector is vulnerable to rising interest rates due to low debt yields and cashflow constraints, says the credit rating agency.