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Standard Chartered lends £250m for London student accommodation scheme

The UK lender has provided development finance for the retrofit of a vacant office asset.

Term Sheet: Bayes highlights debt fund gains, Standard Chartered backs London student housing, Ares posts strong Q1 fundraising figures

The latest UK lending market report from Bayes Business School puts debt fund origination growth in the spotlight; Standard Chartered gets behind Dominus and Cheyne’s London student housing scheme; Ares Management reports $5 billion of equity and debt commitments raised for real estate in Q1; and more in today’s briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.

Term Sheet: Naftali’s real estate debt threequel; Smith Hill’s resi push; Trinity and Sculptor’s CMBS support

Naftali Credit Partners is aiming for a $1bn fundraise for its third distinct real estate credit strategy; Smith Hill Capital is backing a residential platform expansion spearheaded by sector specialist EMCAP Financial; Trinity Investments and Sculptor Real Estate took to real estate’s securitized market to line up acquisition support for an $835m hotel purchase; and more in today’s Term Sheet, exclusively for our valued subscribers.

Bayes report: Debt funds rapidly expand in UK real estate as competition increases

Back leverage fuelled alternative lenders’ growth in origination volumes in 2025, the report’s author says.

Valor tests French financing market with €148m of logistics loans

German lender pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank provided two facilities to the UK manager.

Loans in focus: S3’s Florida mixed-use funding; TD and RXR’s Charlotte resi collab; MF1’s Jersey multifamily recap

S3 Capital continued its construction lending streak with the funding of a $344.75 development financing package for a mixed-use project in Florida; TD Bank and RXR are financing the construction of a Charlotte multifamily project with a $100.5 million debt and equity capital blend; MF1 Capital adds to its debt portfolio with a $109.5 million refinancing deal in New Jersey; and more in our round-up of stateside loan deals from the past week.

Nordic borrowers approach fewer than four lenders, Aera research shows

A survey by the firm shows lending in the region remains concentrated with a limited number of providers.

Loans in focus: Blackstone refinances nine PBSA assets, lender club provides £450m for luxury London hotel, Generali finances Madrid’s Four Seasons with €330m

US manager Blackstone secures a €657.5 million refinancing for its iQ Student Accommodation platform; a club of lenders including Doha Bank refinances London’s Chancery Rosewood hotel with a £450 million (€519 million) senior loan; Generali Real Estate provides a €330 million refinancing for Madrid’s Four Seasons Hotel; 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.

MERA targets preferred equity gap as UK development capital tightens

A US credit firm has provided the specialist real estate lender with £100m of capital for the strategy.