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Toby Cobb, co-founder and managing partner, also sees a herd mentality emerging around five-year, floating-rate loans.

The firm’s global head of real estate Ralph Rosenberg raises the question of whether the sector is in for a near-term period of significant defaults.

The manager will be looking to originate its own loans, pursue securitized deals and acquire loans from traditional lenders as part of its real estate debt roadmap.

In her departing interview, the outgoing president and chief executive officer of CDPQ’s real estate business talks about leaving the job, her next role and her ‘natural’ successor.

The Paris-based manager’s global head of research and strategy believes it will be difficult to predict timing on a potential recovery, however.

The Norfolk, Virginia-based manager believes lenders and borrowers will need to more actively manage assets in order to meet business plans.

The transaction could lead to an office-to-residential conversion for the Midtown office tower.

At a size of $1.4bn, ACORE Credit Partners II is also the joint fourth-largest private real estate fund closed globally so far this year.

The former Affinius Capital head of credit capital markets will focus on private credit product expansion.

A growing number of commercial real estate managers have launched or expanded their lending platforms over the past three to six months.