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The firm plans to introduce its first real estate debt offering after rebranding its property business this month.

UBS' real estate and private markets business analyses the areas of private real estate that will bear the biggest short-term impacts of a world under lockdown.

Disciplined lending throughout the cycle should stand the non-bank lending space in good stead, according to Simon Wallace.

The sector has seen one of the sharpest drops in performance since the outbreak, according to data unveiled at a Cushman & Wakefield webinar.

The UK specialist lender says its latest mortgage securitisation sets it up well for a “rocky period”.

Industry professionals in the quarantined country insist no one is panicking yet – both because of strong fundamentals and the hope the lockdown is short-lived.

The German insurer will remain active in the asset class but will be reevaluating its underwriting and the types of investments it pursues.

The covid-19 pandemic represents uncharted territory for Europe’s commercial property lenders.

‘In the current situation, it’s really tough to underwrite something,’ Rainer Komenda, the €80bn Bavarian pension investor’s head of real estate funds, tells sister title PERE.

Lower-for-longer conditions are driving capital into property markets. But persistently low interest rates are also a concern for real estate investors and lenders.