New deals between Canary Wharf, Blackstone, and HSBC all of which are premium property players suggest that the commercial real estate market is quickly heating up. However, at the same time that the market may be looking better, the low end of it is still stale. This is a result of funding that is coming from outside countries and legal issues.

Until the last few months of 2009 the banking crisis hit the commercial property values in London, causing the market fall in the face of a flailing finance and banking sector as well as the fall of property prices.

In the wake of these troubles however, a new market has emerged especially for premium rent a desk office space properties. The reason for the rising demand is due to legal issues that involve regulatory factors and breached covenants added to a weakened credit market.

Loan documents are causing property owners to face breach of contract charges that are impending or already actuated causing property prices within London by more than half the value they held before the credit crunch hit London.

Since the normal loan to value ratio is around three quarters this placed many companies in the position of breaching their loan covenants.

In fact, HSBC estimates that around 86% of all bank debt since 2004 that was secured using commercial property may now have fallen into default.

With these facts in mind it should not be surprising that sellers are now willing to sell leaving most of the major banks with no choice but to try to sell the foreclosed properties to recoup losses.

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