Loans In Focus

Loans in focus: Apollo issues €900m logistics loan, Castlelake and Atlas back Nordic and Baltic shopping centres, bank lender club extends RCF to UK housebuilder

Apollo Global Management finances urban and mid-box logistics in a €900 million deal; Castlelake and Atlas issue a €520 million loan for shopping centres in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Estonia; HSBC, Lloyds, NatWest and Santander refinance UK housebuilder The Hill Group; 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.

Loans in focus: Wells Fargo’s Queens re-entry; Bank OZK’s Florida expansion; X-Caliber’s Utah ski trip

Bank lenders are again making a splash in US commercial real estate financing with Wells Fargo this week closing a $223.4 million bridge deal for a mixed-use residential tower in Long Island City; Bank OZK is expanding its Southeast US lending book further with a $132.5 million financing for a luxury residential development in Coral Gables, Florida; affiliates of X-Caliber Capital Holdings are blending C-PACE and construction capital to fund the creation of a ski resort in Park City, Utah; and more in our round-up of stateside loan deals from the past week.

Loans in focus: Cheyne issues €136m in Lisbon, Nordic Investment Bank backs Gothenburg office construction, Barclays provides Long Harbour with £67m

Cheyne Capital provides a €135.7 million loan to Arab Bank Switzerland for its debut purchase in Portugal; Nordic Investment Bank backs an office construction project in Gothenburg; Barclays issues Long Harbour with £66.8 million (€77 million) to support the expansion of its single-family housing platform; 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.

Loans in focus: Lender club provides €1.8bn to German data centre operator, SMBC finances Oaktree data centre platform, Maslow backs West End hotels

A 12-lender consortium provides €1.8 billion to Frankfurt-based data centre operator Maincubes; Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation issues €1.9 billion loan for Oaktree’s data centre platform; Maslow Capital provides a £294 million (€340 million) facility for Criterion’s hotel portfolio expansion; 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.

Loans in focus: Deutsche Bank provides €415m for Dublin scheme; SMTB issues £360m for London office; Ares backs Irish data centres

Deutsche Bank provides a €415 million loan to refinance Dublin’s former Irish Glass Bottle site; Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank provides a £360 million (€415 million) facility for a West End London office scheme and Ares issues Astra Partners with a €340 million facility to fund the construction of a data centre in Ireland. Plus: the latest additions to the Real Estate Capital Europe lending database; and more in our round-up of European loan deals over the past three weeks since our last update on 19 December.

Loans in focus: BREDS deploys €100m into self-storage, Goldman Sachs underwrites UK single-family housing, Rabobank issues Bouwinvest vehicle with €200m

Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies issues €100 million to a German self-storage platform; Goldman Sachs deploys a five-year £500 million loan into UK single-family housing; Rabobank provides Bouwinvest Dutch Institutional Residential Fund with a €200 million revolving credit facility; 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.

Loans in focus: Kennedy Wilson and Affinius’s Jersey team-up; Peachtree’s Nashville note; Northwind’s Brooklyn belay

Kennedy Wilson and Affinius are fueling more development in Jersey City with a $384m senior loan and preferred equity package; Peachtree Group is adding to Nashville’s skyline with a $130m construction loan for Vastland’s planned 25-story mixed-use tower; Northwind Group is backing the development of a Brooklyn office building into a 51-story mixed tower; and more in our round-up of stateside loan deals from the past week.

Loans in focus: KKR provides €300m for easyHotel portfolio, Aareal deploys €250m into European hotels, £200m loan finances ‘Can of Ham’ purchase

KKR provides €300 million for Tristan Capital Partners’ easyHotel platform; Aareal Bank issues a €250 million loan to refinance a pan-European hotel portfolio; Santander and CaixaBank finance the acquisition of London’s ‘Can of Ham’; 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.

Loans in focus: TPG’s Greenpoint bet; Wells Fargo’s lending boost; JPMorgan’s Brooklyn upgrade

TPG Real Estate Credit is putting its latest opportunistic strategy to work with a $285m bridge refinancing of Madison Realty Capital’s Greenpoint Central; Wells Fargo is backing an Artemis Real Estate Partners’ industrial acquisition with a $515m balance sheet loan; JPMorgan is upscaling a previous bridge loan to a $450m permanent financing for Brooklyn waterfront new-build; and more in our round-up of stateside loan deals from the past week.