ING Real Estate Finance has provided a €280 million loan to finance the purchase of a prime Madrid office tower by the billionaire Philippines-based investor Andrew Chan, Real Estate Capital can reveal.
1 min read · 10 February 2016
As 2015 ended there was a lot of discussion about the direction for property in 2016 particularly in the UK where the question was whether the market has peaked.
5 min read · 24 December 2015
German commercial real estate lending margins could come in by 20 basis points to as low as 109 bps by 2016, a poll of lenders in the country predicted.
3 min read · 07 December 2015
The Loan Market Association (LMA) has launched new documentation intended to standardise German-law real estate loan agreements.
1 min read · 25 November 2015
pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank has provided a €63m senior loan to Cerberus Capital Management to refinance three German retail properties. The funds will also be used to refurbish the three shopping centres located in Bielefeld, Bonn and Konstanz.
1 min read · 28 October 2015
Almost all lenders expect new European originations to increase or remain stable in the next six months. Some 91% of debt providers contacted by DTZ said their origination volumes will grow or remain the same in the six months to end of September 2015 compared to the previous six-month period. A similar proportion believe the same for refinancing as values continue to recover.
2 min read · 15 July 2015
Major investors holding out on investments until November’s general election are causing an outcry from certain Spanish investment agents.
2 min read · 01 July 2015
Tristan Capital and Avestus Capital Partners have jointly purchased an office park in Poland with a €71m five-year loan from pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank. The new facility will be used to acquire Enterprise Park and adjacent development land in Kraków.
1 min read · 19 May 2015
PVE Capital, a European credit investment firm, has bought a €408m portfolio of Italian non-performing loans, reports Private Debt Investor, our sister publication. The book comprises residential and commercial real estate loans, with the former making up around 75% of the assets, said Gennaro Pucci, founder of PVE Capital PVE raised a new credit fund from third-party investors in just two weeks in January to support the purchase from a small Italian private bank, Pucci said. He declined to say what the total size of PVE European Credit Fund I is but explained that it holds between 20% and 30% of the Italian NPL portfolio.
2 min read · 31 March 2015
Margins for German property loans will fall and loan-to-value ratios will rise says the forecast for this year and next in the second annual survey of German commercial real estate lending by the International Real Estate Business School, part of the University of Regensburg. The forecast is in contrast to the position last year. Across […]
3 min read · 18 September 2014