The recent strength of net lending to commercial property can’t be explained by a rise in investment. Instead, we suspect some investors are borrowing against older assets to provide additional equity when refinancing newer acquisitions whose loans are now underwater. If that is correct, that implies net lending will eventually fall back and that the risk of a surge in defaults and distressed sales has been reduced.
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