Sales of real estate loans and lender-owned properties look set to surpass the €85.9 billion 2015 market peak this year, on the back of large-scale loan sales and securitisations of non-core debt in the Spanish and Italian markets.
2 min read · 06 October 2017
Average lending margins across European real estate finance markets have increased in the last six months, while leverage has crept up in selected cities, according to new research by Cushman & Wakefield.
3 min read · 06 October 2017
The current influx of overseas capital targeting German real estate assets will continue in 2018, fueled in part by demand from Japanese investors, according to a panel at EXPO Real.
2 min read · 06 October 2017
Germany surpassed the UK as Europe’s most active market for investment in commercial real estate in the first half of 2017, according to a report by property services firm Colliers International.
2 min read · 06 October 2017
Macro-economic prospects, challenges for investors, and bankers’ efforts to cope with low margins were among topics of discussion at this week’s EXPO Real fair in Munich.
3 min read · 05 October 2017
A decade since the last peak and crash, the real estate banking sector is better positioned for the inevitable correction, writes Simon Marshall, head of UK commercial property finance at Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW).
5 min read · 05 October 2017
Non-performing loan sales in Portugal look set to ramp up to almost €2 billion in 2017, according to the latest research from consultancy firm Prime Yield, which is based in the country.
2 min read · 03 October 2017
Singapore’s Global Logistics Properties is to finance its $2.8 billion acquisition of European logistics platform Gazeley with $1.2 billion of debt facilities.
3 min read · 03 October 2017
Essential Living and Invesco Real Estate have raised capital to fund UK private rented residential sector schemes through the UK government’s bond programme, which is run by debt fund manager Venn Partners.
2 min read · 02 October 2017
Debt fund capital raised in the first nine months of 2017 surpasses last year’s total, Real Estate Capital data show.
4 min read · 01 October 2017
