Commercial Investors Blog

The latest commercial mortgage market news, advice and views from our resident experts at Mortgages for Business

• Prepare for “green crunch” King Sturge expert warns commercial property professionals

  A raft of new “green” regulations mean the property sector should brace itself for a year of “double crunch,” according to a leading expert

  Dr Angus McIntosh, head of research at international property consultants King Sturge, warned an audience of office developers and occupiers in Bristol that the effects of the global “credit crunch” would be compounded in April by the introduction of stringent new government environmental standards.

• Market conditions force lenders to withdraw

  The onset of the credit crunch has limited the number of lenders in the commercial and business mortgage marketplace. New securitised lenders such as Commercial First have temporarily suspended all new lending. The problems relate to conditions in the global finance markets rather then the strength of the businesses themselves. The lenders cannot find new funding at an appropriate price from the money markets and therefore have withdrawn until this situation has been remedied.