Capital Markets ANZ Capital meets $ its new maker by Anneke ompson, National Director | Research Rather unlike any other major market around the world, Australian commercial property investors and developers have traditionally 2013. The turnaround in lending by sourced debt from the major foreign branch banks is particularly Australian banks. dramatic when you consider that The peak of this trend was felt in their lending to commercial property late 2013, when 87 per cent of borrowers actually decreased by all commercial debt funding by almost $2 billion in the 3 years Australian Deposit-Taking Institutions to 2013. Between 2013 and 2016 (ADIs) was provided by major banks. however, lending by foreign branch This proportion has now fallen to 83 banks for Australian commercial per cent. In terms of ADIs, the gap property has increased by $16.2 has been made up by foreign branch billion, or 162 per cent. 04 A Colliers International publication 00