As property lenders increase their geographic scope across Europe, Real Estate Capital examines the opportunities and risks presented by the continent’s markets.
6 min read · 27 February 2018
A row has broken out over attempts by a state-owned bank to sell a large portfolio of mortgage loans to ‘vulture funds’.
2 min read · 21 February 2018
US investor Kennedy Wilson has completed two refinancing deals with the Bank of Ireland across seven Irish assets.
1 min read · 11 December 2017
Continental European markets offer developers and lenders opportunities to back residential projects.
8 min read · 07 December 2017
US investor Kennedy Wilson and its equity partner Fairfax have sourced a €45 million debt package to refinance the existing development loan on the second phase of the Clancy Quay residential scheme in Dublin.
2 min read · 30 October 2017
Joint owners Hammerson and Allianz Real Estate have closed a €625 million refinancing of Ireland’s Dundrum Town Centre shopping mall in a deal which locks in a sub-2 percent margin for seven years.
2 min read · 01 September 2017
Allianz Real Estate has provided a €290 million loan to German pension fund BVK Bayerische Versorgungskammer for the financing of Ireland’s Liffey Valley shopping centre. The insurer acted as sole lender, providing a seven-year fixed-rate loan “at an attractive all-in rate and a conservative LTV”, Allianz said. It declined to provide further details of the […]
2 min read · 27 July 2017
Allied Irish Bank has provided a €155 million loan to refinance the Jervis Shopping Centre in Dublin, Real Estate Capital has learned. AIB Real Estate Finance gave the loan to JSC Properties, a company owned by Northern Ireland property developers Padraig Drayne and Paddy McKillen. The retail park was opened in 1996. The seven-year whole […]
2 min read · 26 July 2017
Irish housebuilder Cairn Homes has secured a €50 million two-year loan from Activate Capital, a Dublin-based residential development lender.
2 min read · 05 July 2017
Allied Irish Bank (AIB) has provided a €32 million loan to Marathon Asset Management to finance a retail park owned by the US investor in Dublin’s southern suburbs, Real Estate Capital has learned.
1 min read · 06 January 2017
