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Real estate professionals across Europe expect debt to remain liquid into 2018, amid a riskier market, reports Doug Morrison

Investors are more upbeat about the near future for the UK market, according to the results of the latest Colliers International and Real Estate Capital Investor Pricing Survey.

An uptick in liquidity of development finance in the UK looks likely to fall far short of demand, as lenders remain cautious when it comes to construction schemes.

The European property industry remains cautious but positive on the coming year, bolstered by an improving macroeconomic outlook for the eurozone and real estate’s continued attractiveness as an asset class, according to the Emerging Trends in Real Estate Europe 2018 survey.

Real Estate Capital’s data on the latest UK and continental European real estate lending deals.

The report shows a raft of organisations keen to originate debt, but deals more difficult to source.

Sales of real estate loans and lender-owned properties look set to surpass the €85.9 billion 2015 market peak this year, on the back of large-scale loan sales and securitisations of non-core debt in the Spanish and Italian markets.

Average lending margins across European real estate finance markets have increased in the last six months, while leverage has crept up in selected cities, according to new research by Cushman & Wakefield.

Germany surpassed the UK as Europe’s most active market for investment in commercial real estate in the first half of 2017, according to a report by property services firm Colliers International.

Non-performing loan sales in Portugal look set to ramp up to almost €2 billion in 2017, according to the latest research from consultancy firm Prime Yield, which is based in the country.