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The manager has raised €1.2bn for European-focused debt opportunities as volatility persists

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 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.

The board member for the German bank believes the industry will adjust to higher rates and argues parts of the market continue to perform well.

The US manager has sourced debt including €310m of mezzanine for 15 hotels.

The question of where values sit is hanging over the market, made harder to answer by a lack of trades.