Report from Europe: Rethinking real estate credit underwriting

Vincent Nobel, Head of Asset-Based Lending at Federated Hermes discusses his latest Private Markets Real Estate Newsletter, in which he considers the case for rethinking real estate credit underwriting. Vincent explores why traditional metrics such as LTV can distort true risk when relied on in isolation. Real estate isn’t homogenous, and neither are the risks behind each asset, which is why he advocates for the inclusion of abductive reasoning in credit underwriting — with a little help from AI. (04/26)