Basel IV is supposed to level the playing field on risk modelling, but many fear it will prove extremely costly and restrict lending.
3 min read · 02 December 2016
The Real Estate Capital annual awards poll is now open and you may vote in 26 categories for the companies and deals which you think stood out in 2016.
1 min read · 01 December 2016
Opportunistic investor Henderson Park has financed last month’s debut acquisition of Paris’s largest hotel with a €200 million loan from Natixis.
2 min read · 01 December 2016
PGIM Real Estate’s latest European high-yield real estate debt fund has attracted a $200 million (circa €188 million) commitment from one of the largest pension funds in the US.
2 min read · 01 December 2016
UK banks are in much better shape to withstand a property crash than they were in 2007-2008 according to the latest Bank of England stress tests. UK banks would suffer impairment rates on their real estate loan books of about half those experienced in the financial crisis, and impairment charges of under a third as […]
3 min read · 30 November 2016
UK marketplace lender LendInvest has reduced its minimum loan size for commercial and residential property bridging loans as it attempts to roll out its real estate lending business across the UK regions.
2 min read · 29 November 2016
Aareal Bank is to provide a loan of as much as €650 million to global real estate investment manager Invesco Real Estate, in one of 2016’s largest European lending deals, Real Estate Capital has learned.
2 min read · 25 November 2016
Insurance firm Scottish Widows, through its partnership with Lloyds Bank’s Bank of Scotland, has provided a £54 million loan to a Scottish property firm to finance an office scheme in Aberdeen.
2 min read · 25 November 2016
CREFC’s autumn conference saw the trade body’s leading figures from both sides of the Atlantic ponder the fallout from the presidential election.
3 min read · 25 November 2016
German alternative lender Caerus has completed the first close on its real estate debt fund, according to Real Estate Capital’s sister title, Private Debt Investor.
2 min read · 23 November 2016
