Western Europe

Savills: 30-plus lenders often compete for individual UK deals

At its London presentation, the adviser said lenders from 47 countries are active in a competitive UK market.

Standard Chartered’s James Hawkins joins Wells Fargo

Hawkins leads the bank’s activities in the European commercial mortgage-backed securities market.

How Homes England is scaling its lending

As its future funding is determined, the UK public sector body’s executives explain how it is partnering with private capital providers in the lending market.

Aukera aims to amass €500m lending pot in time for German recovery

The manager says it is ‘confident’ it can begin deploying the capital, via small-ticket senior loans, this year.

Castlelake’s D’Alessandro says lender is filling ‘white space’ with €850m deal

The manager sourced and arranged a German multifamily transaction, and provided the mezzanine portion.

Firma Partners scales development lending business with third loan

The lender launched in September 2024 to target the UK residential market.

Venn lends £200m to VIVID under UK government-backed housing scheme

The second loan the manager has provided to the developer under this initiative was funded by a new 16-year bond series.

Supermarket Income REIT sources unsecured debt with £90m Barclays refinancing

London-listed company completes the refinancing shortly after forming a JV with US manager Blue Owl.

Blackstone provides £260m to consolidate Valor and QuadReal logistics debt

The portfolio of 14 London urban logistics assets was previously financed by three separate transactions.

GoldenTree, Farran tap Canada Life for £68.4m loan

The loan will be used to refinance debt on Lakeside Retail Park in Essex, a property the partners acquired for £114m in March.