Coronavirus

The refusal by tenants to pay rent under a covid-19 lockdown has raised the fear of creating a ‘cascading effect’ among related contractual parties.

Otherwise, US private real estate mogul Tom Barrack says, widespread margin calls could trigger the next financial crisis – and it’s hard to disagree.

Colony Capital’s CEO calls for lender leniency to avert a mortgage market collapse, triggering a financial crisis.

The Colony Capital boss says the US property loan market is on the brink. Lenders in Europe should take note.

The firm plans to introduce its first real estate debt offering after rebranding its property business this month.

UBS' real estate and private markets business analyses the areas of private real estate that will bear the biggest short-term impacts of a world under lockdown.

Disciplined lending throughout the cycle should stand the non-bank lending space in good stead, according to Simon Wallace.

The sector has seen one of the sharpest drops in performance since the outbreak, according to data unveiled at a Cushman & Wakefield webinar.

The UK specialist lender says its latest mortgage securitisation sets it up well for a “rocky period”.

Industry professionals in the quarantined country insist no one is panicking yet – both because of strong fundamentals and the hope the lockdown is short-lived.