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Inside: Cheyne’s Ravi Stickney on preparing for a decade of opportunity; How the lending slowdown is affecting your pay; A 36-page special report on alternative lending, including our ranking of Europe’s 30 biggest lenders; Plus much more…

CREFC sentiment survey: Market mood remains mildly optimistic

Hopes that interest rates may have peaked are cheering survey respondents.

Term Sheet: A £500m financing for London’s West End, Castlelake provides €489 million loan to SBB, Spring conference season reveals anticipation of forced sales

Ares Management expands its European loan book with a £500 million loan in London’s West End; Castlelake issues €489 million of debt to help embattled Swedish residential landlord SBB; Blackstone scoops $1 billion of senior commercial mortgages from Germany’s pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank; a round-up of the spring conference season reveals pressure building for lenders to resolve stressed situations; and more in today’s Term Sheet, exclusively for our valued subscribers.

Term Sheet: Blackstone’s $1bn portfolio buy; RFR and Kushner’s Brooklyn extension; Deutsche’s Miami moves

Blackstone is expanding its commercial real estate lending market share via a $1 billion pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank loan portfolio acquisition; RFR and Kushner Companies scored a four-year extension on the $480 million loan backing a Brooklyn mixed-use campus; Deutsche Bank taps into Miami’s momentum with a $120 million refinancing package on the $6 billion Miami Worldcenter development; and more in today’s Term Sheet, exclusively for our valued subscribers.

Pressure builds to resolve stalled loan situations

Lenders face troubled debt positions as final maturity dates set out in loan agreements approach.

Analysis: Urgency rises around restructuring stressed loans

Lenders will have ‘no choice’ but to enforce if these conversations do not start soon, according to restructuring specialists at accountancy PwC.

Term Sheet: A €750m data centres financing, German banks get behind Hamburg scheme, Savills highlights growing lender competition

A major data centres debt deal shows the burgeoning asset class suits infrastructure lenders as well as real estate financiers; German banks demonstrate demand for prime financing deals with the backing of a Hamburg asset; Savills suggests some lenders are prioritising financing volume over return; and more in today’s briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.

Lenders may be opting for volume over return, says Savills

Debt providers are converging on favoured types of real estate, the consultant said at its latest Financing Property event.

CBRE IM raises capital in the Danish bond market

The manager says the transaction enables it to free up capital for future deals.