Lloyds Bank has written an £82 million (€92 million) whole loan to developer Ballymore to bring forward an office building at Embassy Gardens, its regeneration project close to the site of the new US embassy in London’s Nine Elms.
2 min read · 15 January 2018
Legal & General, the UK-based insurance company, has appointed Lorna Brown to develop its existing real estate debt business and expand its scope for internal and external clients.
2 min read · 12 January 2018
Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking has provided a £50 million (€56.7 million) financing through its Green Lending Initiative to a UK science parks joint venture.
2 min read · 10 January 2018
UK-based development finance provider Maslow Capital has completed four financing deals totalling £74 million (€83.8 million), in a move to diversify its loan book.
2 min read · 09 January 2018
Santander has issued a £916.8 million (€1 billion) commercial real estate loan securitisation, in one of the first synthetic transactions of UK commercial property assets since the financial crisis.
2 min read · 08 January 2018
Alternative lenders in the UK real estate market will broaden their product offering in 2018 to compete more effectively with the sector’s traditional bank lenders, the Real Estate Finance unit of Link Asset Services – formerly Capita Real Estate Finance – has predicted.
3 min read · 08 January 2018
Specialist UK debt provider LendInvest has reported 2017 lending volumes of £500 million (€563 million), up 33 percent on the previous year’s total.
2 min read · 05 January 2018
UK healthcare REIT Primary Health Properties has signed a £75 million (€84.3 million) refinancing facility with Aviva and a £30 million revolving credit facility with Lloyds Bank.
2 min read · 04 January 2018
London-based property company Eskmuir has closed an £80 million (€90.1 million) refinancing deal with Royal Bank of Scotland to fund future property acquisitions across the UK.
1 min read · 03 January 2018
Against a backdrop of progress in EU exit negotiations, the UK market will present plenty of opportunities for real estate lenders, writes Mark Bladon of Investec Structured Property Finance.
3 min read · 01 January 2018
