Australia can provide an exciting and potentially lucrative market for experienced non-bank lenders who can carefully assess the available opportunities and achieve the optimum risk-adjusted returns.
- The country’s commercial real estate debt market looks as though it will continue its healthy pace of growth as it benefits from the country’s rapid post-Covid recovery.
- The Australian non-bank lending market has experienced significant growth as it continues to mature towards the US and European markets.
- Despite increasing their market share from 10-15% over the past decade, non-bank commercial real estate lenders market share in Australia is still well below the US and European markets.
- We estimate a debt funding gap in the Australian commercial real estate market at circa A$11bn annually.