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Ending government forbearance, inflation fears and heated marketplaces were top discussions items during affiliate title PERE’s first all-virtual Global Summit.

Among the past week’s most noteworthy items, Link Group’s latest debt survey found that most UK debt providers expect to increase loan originations in 2021 despite the persisting pandemic.

According to the advisor’s fifth UK debt survey, lenders are gearing up for a recovery but remain cautious about market conditions.

A €296m construction financing in the German capital, led by Deutsche Hypo, was among the week’s more eye-catching items.

The Canadian pension investor’s expansion efforts including doubling its lending book in the coming years.

Oaktree’s substantial deployment of its latest property fund is not indicative of dealflow in the market overall, but rather that it is ahead of the pack.

The London-based asset manager, which has a special situations background, is raising for a senior property loans strategy.

Among the past week’s most noteworthy items, manager Oaktree emphasised the importance of credit-related deals to its new opportunity fund.

Tony Guthrie, a property receiver with consultancy Gerald Eve, says lenders in the UK are unlikely to enforce loans during the extended eviction moratorium, but that they need to be ready for its end.

In a busy start to March, a UK leisure platform attracted £1.8bn of finance, banks re-upped on a London office tower loan and sponsors demanded speculative logistics debt.