Opinion

Receiverships at Docklands office buildings in London suggest even prudent senior lenders will be impacted by problems in the office sector.

Debt providers can take steps to navigate complex situations in this challenging market, comments Ali Khaki, insolvency practitioner with FTI Consulting.

But some investors had reservations about the Nordics even before Sweden’s property market woes became headline news.

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.

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.

Here are five ways the bank crises in the US and Europe will make it more challenging for transaction activity to bounce back.

Lenders at MIPIM were sanguine about Silicon Valley Bank, but the Credit Suisse situation will amplify concerns.

Two of the biggest names in private real estate were engaged in conversations with their lenders about loans that are now due.

Users of loan-on-loan financing may want to provide their lenders additional protections in this period of uncertainty, say Richard Hanson and Julius Maximilian Rogenhofer of law firm Morgan Lewis.

Trimont’s Michael Delaney says lenders should focus on loan events, cashflow and covenants to mitigate current risks.