James Wright, head of real estate finance at Link Asset Services, said that one way in which lenders had adapted<\/a> to the political risk environment was by “doubling down on low-risk senior finance”.<\/p>\n He added: “We have seen margins lower on senior debt, but rising on riskier lending products. In addition, this year lenders want to do relatively more lending in commercial sectors in comparison to residential, where they see greater risk<\/a> to values in the year ahead.”<\/p>\n The time it takes to get a commercial property loan now, according to the Link Asset Services research, is 53 days, whereas it took an average 43 days a year ago. This is largely down to the latest regulatory changes linked to property financing, which is slowing the processes down.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Commercial property lenders in the UK are confident about the year ahead, even though the country’s upcoming exit from the European Union is at the forefront of most lenders’ minds at the moment. The latest research from Link Asset Services has revealed that almost three quarters (72%) of commercial property lenders predict that the volume… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":13427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,26],"tags":[344,341],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6097166,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13414\/revisions\/6097166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}