European commercial property markets are on the cusp of a funding revolution that could make securitisation largely irrelevant, one of Europe’s most experienced real estate finance experts said on Monday.
Neil Lawson-May, co-head of asset manager Palatium Investment Management, said banks were no longer dependent on issuance of commercial mortgage backed securities (CMBS) to replenish capital, [...]

Amidst further bad news of bank write-downs and losses, the major Banks are clearly still wary of lending to each other and the 3-month LIBOR rate remains stubbornly high. The Bank of England’s latest Credit Conditions Survey gives little cause for optimism with regard to lending activity for the next few months, although the recently [...]

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Bank of England’s lending figures for Q1 2008 were quite sound and surprising. (Albeit the addition of Building society data for the first time gave it more of an upside).
Kelvin Davidson from Capital Economics remarked: ”Looking ahead, it seems likely to us that over the medium term a positive financing gap will exist between commercial property income returns [...]

Prime Residential Property Extract: The prime residential markets showed remarkable performance in the first three quarters of 2007. They were relatively insulated from the affordability issues which dogged the mainstream markets but this all began to change in October. The markets had to contend with the global credit crises and, as a consequence, reduced demand [...]