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Cerberus refinances three UK student accommodation assets with £63m loan

The debt was provided to real estate credit manager Zenzic Capital and developer Torsion Group.

Alantra collects €60m for first close of European real estate debt fund

The Madrid-based manager is seeking a total of €200m for its second property credit vehicle.

Loans in focus: Apollo issues €900m logistics loan, Castlelake and Atlas back Nordic and Baltic shopping centres, bank lender club extends RCF to UK housebuilder

Apollo Global Management finances urban and mid-box logistics in a €900 million deal; Castlelake and Atlas issue a €520 million loan for shopping centres in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Estonia; HSBC, Lloyds, NatWest and Santander refinance UK housebuilder The Hill Group; 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.

Apollo issues €900m loan to refinance industrial platform

The debt is secured by 92 industrial and logistics assets across Europe.

Term Sheet: Fed’s rate review; Invesco’s ex-Nuveen senior hire; NYSTRS’ SL Green allocation

Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell affirms a hold on interest rate changes as private real estate credit managers look for more stability; Invesco is bolstering client relations lines with the addition of Carly Tripp, former global CIO of Nuveen Real Estate; SL Green and a pair of other real estate debt fund runners pick up commitments from New York Teachers’ Retirement System allocation wave; and more in today’s Term Sheet, exclusively for our valued subscribers.

Term Sheet: The year’s first CMBS is upsized, Just Group makes its mark, Pluto writes first loan through Blackstone tie-in

The first European CMBS deal of 2026 has priced, having been significantly increased in size, reflecting strong investor demand; UK life insurer Just Group writes a large loan as it increases its lending market presence; Pluto picks Ireland for the first loan through its tie-in with Blackstone; and more in today’s briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.

Loans in focus: Wells Fargo’s Queens re-entry; Bank OZK’s Florida expansion; X-Caliber’s Utah ski trip

Bank lenders are again making a splash in US commercial real estate financing with Wells Fargo this week closing a $223.4 million bridge deal for a mixed-use residential tower in Long Island City; Bank OZK is expanding its Southeast US lending book further with a $132.5 million financing for a luxury residential development in Coral Gables, Florida; affiliates of X-Caliber Capital Holdings are blending C-PACE and construction capital to fund the creation of a ski resort in Park City, Utah; and more in our round-up of stateside loan deals from the past week.

Oaktree-backed data centre developer sees strong lender appetite

Pure DC obtained a €1.9bn data centre financing from SMBC earlier this month.

Loans in focus: Cheyne issues €136m in Lisbon, Nordic Investment Bank backs Gothenburg office construction, Barclays provides Long Harbour with £67m

Cheyne Capital provides a €135.7 million loan to Arab Bank Switzerland for its debut purchase in Portugal; Nordic Investment Bank backs an office construction project in Gothenburg; Barclays issues Long Harbour with £66.8 million (€77 million) to support the expansion of its single-family housing platform; 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.