Deutsche Bank has added to its Spanish real estate debt exposure with the purchase of a portfolio of development loans with a face value of around €400 million.
1 min read · 05 July 2016
Deutsche Hypo has led the €64 million financing of an office development project in its home city of Hannover.
1 min read · 05 July 2016
BlackRock has launched an alternative income fund targeted at UK defined benefit pension schemes through which it will aim to invest in UK real estate debt.
2 min read · 04 July 2016
Michael Zerda is the new head of Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies in Europe replacing Rob Harper who is returning to the US, Real Estate Capital has learned.
1 min read · 01 July 2016
Lenders are likely to attempt to hike loan margins in the UK real estate lending margin in the short-to-medium term in a bid to price the increased risk of doing business in the wake of the country’s decision to leave the European Union.
4 min read · 01 July 2016
Federico Montero, the former head of European loan sales for Cushman & Wakefield, has joined independent investment banking firm Evercore to lead its European real estate portfolios solutions team.
2 min read · 01 July 2016
The acquisition greatly expands the commercial loan origination platform at Cornerstone, nearly doubling the company’s multifamily loan portfolio from approximately $5 billion to $10 billion.
2 min read · 30 June 2016
The news that a prominent Singaporean bank has placed a moratorium on new mortgages for customers buying London homes indicates that there will be further pressure on the prime residential sector in the UK capital in the wake of the Brexit vote. UOB (United Overseas Bank), which is based in Singapore, has said that it will temporarily […]
4 min read · 30 June 2016
Allianz Real Estate France has provided a €225 million long-term loan to listed property firm Icade to refinance a business park on the outskirts of Paris.
1 min read · 30 June 2016
The UK’s EU referendum vote appears to have dashed hopes of a surge in activity towards year-end. Pause, pause, boom. That was the imagined sequence in UK commercial real estate financing. Pause for the referendum vote on 23 June, pause again for the summer holidays in July and August and then, on September 1st, […]
3 min read · 30 June 2016
