FRANKFURT—The property market is a “key vulnerability” for eurozone banks as the rise of remote working since the pandemic dents demand for offices and households take on more debt to buy expensive homes, the European Central Bank said on Wednesday. Central bankers have been ringing alarm bells about the eurozone’s booming property market that has a decade of ultra-low interest rates and light-touch prudential regulation have helped create. In the latest warning, the ECB’s supervisors said commercial and residential real estate had become a cause for concern, and they planned to take a closer look at banks’ exposure to it. “ECB Banking Supervision identified banks’ exposures towards the commercial and residential real estate sectors as a key vulnerability,” the ECB said in its newsletter. It announced plans for a “targeted review” of a sample of banks with material exposure to commercial and residential real estate. “The commercial real estate (CRE) …
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