Most of this borrowing was re-cycled by the banks into property loans.

The floor for fully appraised commercial property loans is $1 million.

At 30 June 2009, property loans were $414.2 million.

Cultural property loans are normally protected from seizure, he explained.

However, the lender can require this on a commercial property loan.

Commercial property loans that have gone bad as there are plenty of empty shops and offices.

Chase Manhattan, for example, once carried nearly $10 billion in commercial property loans.

In the near future, a new mortgage law will enable purchasers to take out property loans.

Do we not urgently need to open the way for cross-border competition in property loans?

There were ten property loans greater than $10 million.