Europe

SocGen provides Orion with €84m loan

The senior green financing is secured against Milan’s Park West Office district.

Luca and Twemlow take over from Moore at Ares

Alessandro Luca joined Ares in 2021 alongside Philip Moore to set up the firm’s European real estate lending strategy.

DekaBank appoints new UK head as Bennett departs

Chris Bennett is to join Cushman & Wakefield as head of London office capital markets.

DWS taps into stabilisation finance demand for H1 dealflow

The manager announced three loans for freshly completed schemes, including a Manchester office building.

CaixaBank refinances Spanish science park platform Deeplabs with €170m

The debt deal comes as Stoneshield and Colonial formalise a JV through which they plan to grow the platform.

Finland’s Antilooppi secures €520m refinancing as ‘dust settles in office market’

CEO Tuomas Sahi sees the office market in Helsinki picking up again now that property investors have a better sense of pricing dynamics.

King Street closes $950m special situations fund in ‘most attractive market since GFC’

Paul Brennan, co-head of real estate at the firm, says all the European fund’s investments so far have had a credit focus.

Apollo provides UK’s ‘largest IOS portfolio financing’ to date with £80m-plus loan

The loan is secured against Centerbridge and Modal’s £200m industrial outdoor storage platform.

Maslow provides largest loan yet with £500m UK PBSA development financing

Borrower Fusion Group says the deal represents one of the largest single-lender debt packages for UK PBSA.