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Natixis aims to capitalise on property investors’ international activities by operating an originate-to-distribute model across continents. Emmanuel Verhoosel, the French bank’s global head of real estate and hospitality, discusses market conditions.

Most did not exist a decade ago. Now, the UK’s emergent property debt providers, including challenger banks, peer-to-peer platforms and specialist lenders, are raising their profiles and their ambitions.

The German bank has launched a green lending initiative which grants reduced pricing for loans to assets that hit agreed sustainability criteria.

An increase in lending activity, a retreat by the German banks and a drop in residential development finance are among the key trends highlighted by the business school’s latest report on UK property lending.

Our annual rundown of Europe’s most important commercial real estate lenders will be published in September. Now is the time to pitch for your organisation to be considered.

The Qatar Investment Authority has signed a debt facility with a syndicate of six banks to refinance its global headquarters in the Canary Wharf financial district.

European banks’ growing interest in funding non-bank lenders illustrates how the continent’s property debt market is coming to resemble its US counterpart.

Christian Aufsatz, head of European structured finance at rating agency DBRS, expects market dynamics to support a continued revival of Europe’s commercial real estate securitisation market.

The results of Link Asset Services' latest lending market survey show growing caution among debt providers.

With high levels of property debt liquidity across Europe, opportunities where competition is less fierce are becoming more appealing, MIPIM attendees told Real Estate Capital in Cannes.