Banks

Property lenders must create late-cycle strategies to avoid the “profitability black hole” of previous cycles, a debt working group has urged.

In this 13-page downloadable presentation, Real Estate Capital provides a snapshot of the leading organisations offering debt liquidity to the European property sector.

In the second of three instalments, Real Estate Capital examines the leading lenders in Europe today.

More organisations than ever before are aiming to provide debt across Europe’s commercial property markets. In the first of three instalments, Real Estate Capital profiles those making the biggest impact.

Lower bank lending volumes, the dominance of investment banks in emerging markets and growing pools of capital in the non-bank sector; clear trends emerged while compiling the latest Europe’s Top 40 Lenders.

Robert Johnson, managing director for Asia-Pacific real estate at JPMorgan Global Alternatives, tells our sister publication, PERE, why Japan is in a healthier lending environment today than 10 years ago.

On the 10th anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the real estate debt industry is in better shape, but lenders can never become complacent again.

The impact of the global financial crisis for the real estate sector was first shocking, then painful and, finally, educational.

When Lehman Brothers failed, banks’ real estate lending units pulled down the shutters. The implications are still being dealt with a decade later.

The banker will replace Mark Titcomb following his retirement from the banking industry.