Net lending to property turned negative in February, as investors held back in the face of falling capital values. But the decline was small and even though the recent banking crisis will lead to some tightening of credit conditions, with the ratio of UK bank commercial property debt to capital values still low by past standards the risk of commercial property triggering a banking crisis here is low.
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