Debt markets remain tight, but REITs may ride to rescue

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Source: © LIAM BAILEY 2009

Writing in Property Week six months after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, I suggested that, given the banking crisis, equity might need to replace debt as a means of funding, as in the 1980s (professional, 13.03.09). We are in the middle of a European sovereign debt crisis.

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