Guest Writer
Competition is heating up in Spain’s lending market, but Italy still has enormous untapped potential, says Alberto Lopez, CEO of Aexbridge Capital, winner of the Alternative Lender of the Year: Southern Europe award.
Non-bank lenders continue to expand their footprint in European residential markets, supporting assets beyond construction, say Eldridge’s Graham Keable and Matteo Milan.
A more predictable rate environment should bolster further recovery in the real estate lending market and continue the positive trends seen in 2025, say ING’s Sylvia Brandsma and Michael Shields.
In a shifting European real estate debt market, the loan servicer’s role has moved from administrative support to a value-add partnership, says Trimont’s Rebecca Percossi.
European commercial real estate lenders are looking forward to building on the positive market trends and opportunities that emerged in 2025, says Apollo’s Ben Eppley.
In a landscape defined by unprecedented geopolitical volatility, dependability has become the ultimate currency in real estate finance, says BGO’s Jim Blakemore.
Antonio de Laurentiis, the French manager’s global head of real asset debt, provides his outlook for real estate credit in 2025.
Greater supply of debt and more flexible lending structures are starting to help unlock development activity, says Lisa Attenborough, Knight Frank’s head of debt advisory.
Non-bank lenders are finally being compensated for risk in Europe’s largest real estate market and have a crucial role to play in capital restructuring, according to PIMCO’s Roman Kogan and PIMCO Prime Real Estate’s Roland Fuchs.
Cautious senior and junior lenders are carefully selecting when to extend maturities, while sponsors are being equally careful in selecting when best to inject equity into deals, to avoid throwing good money after bad, says First Growth’s Francesca Galante.