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Term Sheet: Owner of Belgium’s Finance Tower sues CBRE Loan Services, Patron issues its first loans, Stoneweg appoints head of credit in real estate debt push

Owner of Belgium’s Finance Tower sues CBRE Loan Services over a valuation dispute with lenders to the office building; Patron Capital Partners makes its first direct loans; Stoneweg appoints head of credit and the firm outlines plans to deploy €500 million of real estate debt; and more in today’s briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.

Term Sheet: US 10-year Treasury on watch; Industrial Realty and Sachem’s blend; Värde’s $1bn securitization

Private real estate credit managers are keeping sights fixed on the US 10-year Treasury with mid-term outlooks potentially needing to be retooled; Industrial Realty Group and Sachem Capital are merging to form an industrial sector origination and ownership platform; Värde Partners closes its largest commercial real estate collateralized loan obligation to date in $1 billion transaction; and more in today’s Term Sheet, exclusively for our valued subscribers.

Loans in focus: Brookfield’s Hudson Yards refi; UBS’s Chelsea boost; New York Life’s Chicago backing

Brookfield is securing a $1.9 billion CMBS SASB loan for an office tower in its Hudson Yards development portfolio; UBS is funding a $161 million loan to refinance an office building in Manhattan’s Chelsea submarket; Hines lines up a $141.82 million financing for a multifamily property in Chicago’s River North submarket; and more in our round-up of stateside loan deals from the past week.

Värde Partners closes $1bn collateralized loan obligation

The transaction comes as the CRE CLO market is seeing robust origination momentum in 2026.

‘A lot of unnecessary risk’: Lagging performance puts managers’ losses under scrutiny

The PERE Podcast spotlights the metric every investor is asking for and what it suggests about market sentiment, with StepStone Real Estate’s Jeff Giller.

King Street appoints senior adviser to European real estate business

The move to bring Sujan Patel aboard follows the departure of real estate co-head Paul Brennan.

Loans in focus: Aareal issues €406m loan for European hotels, Grainger receives £540m refinancing, Värde issues €275m in Germany

Aareal Bank provides a €406m loan to Pandox secured by a 13‑hotel portfolio across Europe; AIB, Barclays, HSBC and NatWest issue a £540m refinancing loan to Grainger; Värde Partners provides €275m of debt for a German logistics asset; the latest additions to the Real Estate Capital Europe lending database; and more in our round‑up of European loan deals from the past week.

Owner of Belgium’s biggest office sues CBRE Loan Services in valuation dispute

The Korean owner of Belgium’s largest office building alleges the building’s lenders placed undue pressure on valuers to trigger a cash trap event.

Term Sheet: BNPP AM Alts amasses €3bn for real estate debt, EBRD invests in distressed loan programme, Aareal provides €406m for hotel portfolio

BNP Paribas Asset Management Alts amasses circa €3bn for a European real estate debt strategy; APS Group and the EBRD partner on a €250m programme to acquire distressed loans; Aareal Bank provides a €406m financing for a European hotel portfolio; and more in today’s briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.