Insights   |   April 22, 2024

Pan-European Real Estate Credit: An immediate, compelling and expanding investment opportunity

A whole loan real estate credit strategy provides investors with a compelling and sustainable long-term investment thesis. Supported by an existing €2.0 trillion market, real estate credit looks particularly attractive at this stage of the market cycle.

The fundamentals which make the strategy appealing are:

  • An expanding opportunity set due to mainstream bank funding supply constraints
  • A wave of impending borrower refinancing requirements (forecast to total over €200 billion5  over the next 2 years) which provide for longevity and liquidity of investment thesis
  • Superior risk adjusted returns in the current heightened interest rate environment
  • Downside protection in the current climate of volatile valuations
  • Portfolio diversification benefits

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