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Real Estate Market Outlook 2019 of CBRE says that in 2018 distressed credit deals have been of a face value 100 billion of euros, this figure is in line with market analysis that BeBeez released in January and highlighted the closure of 72 deals worth above 101 billion (see here a previous post by BeBeez). According to Credit Village’s Osservatorio Nazionale NPL Market, which included in its report about the same matter also small transactions, market participants closed 398 deals worth 106.4 billion. Almost one third of these transactions involved the secondary market that, however, has still a limited size of 6.2 billion. Market participants said to BeBeez that distressed credit portfolios amounting to 21 billion are about to g