The Finance Market:
The high profile problems being experienced throughout the financial world continue to be a preoccupation for the whole business community.  The Bear Stearns situation earlier this year, the rumours surrounding other banks and the stubbornly high costs of borrowing despite the Treasury’s best intentions have done nothing to quell these fears.  However, even [...]

King Sturge View:

The slowdown that had been evident nationally has spread to the Central London market in recent months. Prime Central London (PCL) pricing fell by 1% in the year to June.
Super-prime stock (£5m or more) saw price growth of 13% compared to a 4% fall in the rest of the market.
We now anticipate that [...]

By the end of 2007 as the credit crunch spread to all corners of the capital market; the downward re-pricing of commercial real estate assets had begun. The transparent nature of the UK market has been quick to reflect this. In New York, the initial impact of the credit crunch resulted in a curtailment of [...]

The Knight Frank View: Our opinion is that professionally managed student accommodation will provide one of the most excitingprospects in the UK property market over the next three years; we believe that the potential for both capitaland rental growth is well above the level we are anticipating for the mainstream residential and commercialproperty sectors.
Set against [...]

Red Chilli Structured Finance specialises in property finance for Development or Investment in Residential or Commercial Property in UK and Europe.
With strong relationships with over 500 key lenders offering senior debt, mezzanine finance, bridging finance loans as well as joint venture partners and equity finance assures clients always receive a speedy and effective route to [...]

Activity in the housing market is slowing sharply as the credit crunch continues to hamper demand. This has led to house prices falling; so far there have been eight consecutive months of declining house prices with a total fall of 7.3%.
The combination of falling house prices and a weakening economy has led to confidence falling [...]

Five months into the year the German Open-ended Fund sector has received a total €3.7 billion net cash inflows. However, the net May inflows of €128.6 million were well below the €984 million monthly average received over January-April 2008.
This cash-flow slowdown in May is almost exclusively due to a net -€780 million withdrawal from HAUS-INVEST [...]

Property’s Yield Gap over Bonds Falls to 100bp. Following a modest decline in Q1, All Property rents were broadly flat in the second quarter of 2008 and over the first half of the year.  However, a loss of momentum in the UK occupier markets has meant that annual rental growth has slowed from 7% in [...]

Investment into UK Property fell to a 7 year low in the second quarter; with the lack of transaction evidence resulting in a yield shift of just 20bp over the quarter, half the rate of Q1.  Compounding the yield impact, rental values actually fell in thesecond quarter compared to moderate growth in Q1.  Nonetheless, All [...]

Lone Star sealed the financing for the sale & leaseback with banks Eurohypo, Natixis, DekaBank and Societe Generale, yesterday. It provided the remaining €300m (£238m) itself.
The fundraising comes after the global private equity investor and fund manager agreed a deal to buy the 1,267 strong portfolio in April in the biggest commercial property deal seen [...]

There was further evidence of a deteriorating housing market in the UK as government data showed annual house price growth slowed to its weakest in over two years during May.
The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) found that annual house price inflation fell to 3.7 percent in May from 4.9 percent in April, the [...]

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, [...]