NEW YORK CITY—Lending activity showssignificant improvement in peripheral European markets as pricingbegins to stabilize, with the number of active European RE lendersup 47% since Q1 2012. Alternative non-bankfinancial institutions continue to take up a moresignificant share of an increasingly diversified mix of activelenders in Europe, while the drive into non-core markets includingSpain, Portugal and Italygathered pace during the first half of 2014.

This summation comes from Cushman &Wakefield's European Real Estate Lending Update,published Tuesday.

C&W's corporate finance team analyzed the activity of182 European lenders of which, alternativelenders, including insurance companies, property companies, privateequity and debt funds now account for 40% of the total (16% in Q12012).

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