Real estate debt manager Venn Partners has launched a new Dutch-focused mortgage lender and is seeking to lend €2 billion to residential buyers by 2018.
2 min read · 22 March 2016
Amid continuing low interest rates, ease of availability and low return requirements, senior loans in Germany are tipped to “increase in attractiveness in the future” according to the EY Real Estate Capital Radar Germany 2016 report.
2 min read · 07 March 2016
The private equity firm purchased the portfolios for an undisclosed amount from two separate Italian securitisation vehicles majority-owned by GE Capital Real Estate and Royal Bank of Scotland respectively.
2 min read · 04 March 2016
Engel & Voelkers Investment Consulting (EVIC) has appointed Thorsten Brogt as executive director of business development to oversee the roll out of its distressed debt/real estate opportunity funds unit.
2 min read · 22 February 2016
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