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The mortgage REIT is building out full-service lending platform.

The latest report by Bayes Business School reveals loan origination reached £23.3bn in the first six months of 2021 as lenders tackled a deals backlog.

Lenders need to work better with data in order to drive operational efficiencies, says Mike Sroka, CEO of Dealpath, a San-Francisco-based deal management platform for commercial real estate debt and equity investors.

While there is some potential for operational issues, all systems are go for the shift.

With a looming threat of inflation, the sector is starting to feel like a safer bet.

The company is seeing more conventional lenders entering the market.

The firm's model is to bring borrowers directly to lenders for a flat fee.

Berkadia, which arranged the financing, wants to carve out a niche in the sector.

Market participants foresee some potential integrational and operational issues when lenders step away from LIBOR on December 31.

The bank is allocating the bulk of its capital to opportunities in the sector.