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The Real Estate Finance business of consultancy Link Group, which is launching its fourth annual survey of the UK real estate debt market, expects to see greater supply of debt from German and other continental European lenders.

Randeesh Sandhu, chief executive of residential development lender Urban Exposure, argues that the UK government and the real estate industry must work together to tackle the undersupply of housing.

The investment manager has provided its largest UK build-to-rent development loan to date to developer Apache Capital Partners.

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Through its latest vehicle, focused primarily on investing in whole loans secured against UK commercial property, the firm has already committed £455m across 10 transactions.

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The UK’s regional cities are attracting lenders looking to diversify from the capital’s increasingly hot market.

The mandate will establish an evergreen fund to invest in a wide variety of debt instruments including real estate debt.

Although the H1 2019 survey recorded an increase in origination, it also highlighted areas of concern for debt providers.

The latest Cass report on UK real estate lending found new loan origination to have increased by 4% to £23.4bn in H1 2019 despite fewer property transactions and increased political risks.