The trendy European market: U.S. lenders have set their sights on the European commercial real estate market. Though facing competition on all flanks and a minefield of different tax regimes and entrenched regulations, the market's appeal is luring waves of new players from across the Atlantic

Impeccably dressed executives overheard speaking English (with distinctive British and American accents), German and French--at the annual Marche International des Professionnels de l'Immobilier (MIPIM) property market/conference in Cannes, France, in [...]