Against the backdrop of a still dynamic commercial real estate investment market, new lending to real estate professionals stood at EUR 73.1 billion in 2017, or a 9.8% rise on the previous year. Growth in new lending was particularly robust in France (+13.1%), which accounts for 64% of new issuance, and in the rest of the world (+23.8%), whereas in the rest of the European Union (EU) new lending slowed down by 7.3%.