Interest rates

As a new economic reality comes into focus, real estate companies will be working with much uncertainty in the months ahead.

The financial services firm is advising investors to refrain from buying as property prices fully adjust.

REC Europe’s most popular stories of the year included in-depth analysis of the impact of rising interest rates and the refinancing challenge facing the industry.

Patrizia senior portfolio manager Falvio Casero says the tool is a primary reason for the firm’s ability to close deals this year.

A debt funding gap looms across Europe’s property markets. Yet banks and debt funds are well capitalised. Will their funding end up where it is most needed?

The country’s real estate financing market is much better positioned to weather this economic crisis than the last one, argue the participants in Real Estate Capital Europe’s Spain roundtable.

Providers of loan-on-loan finance are pricing in higher interest rates.

Panellists at CREFC Europe’s London conference said uncertainty around interest rates and property values is making debt transactions difficult to underwrite.

The region’s well-developed banking market and strong macroeconomic features are creating a stable lending environment.