Lauren Parr
Debt platform Aeriance Investments has issued £80m of new loans so far this year, all for residential property. The loans were funded through the Luxembourg company’s €500m Opportunistic Real Estate Loan Fund 2, which provides senior and junior short term and development finance loans mainly in London and the south east of the UK, targeting […]
Sareb has asked eight bidders to make binding offers for contracts to manage €50bn of distressed loans and assets. In the first stage of an outsourcing process, Sareb’s board received 46 non-binding offers to manage different combinations of 10 portfolios that comprise its book of assets. KPMG is advising Spain’s bad bank and expects to […]
Chelsfield and the Saudi Olayan Group have sourced debt from a club of four banks for their recent €1.2bn acquisition of one of the most significant portfolios to be sold in Paris for years. ING led the club in a circa €750m financing of the pair’s purchase of the ultra prime Paris property portfolio, sold […]
Credit Suisse and BAWAG are said to be lined up to provide circa €245m of financing for Lone Star’s purchase of a Dutch office portfolio from CBRE Global Investors. Lone Star acquired the good-quality assets from CBRE Global Investors’ €1.56bn CBRE Dutch Office Fund for a purchase price of around €350m. Leverage equates to about […]
Secondary sales by foreign banks add to wave of domestic debt deals, reports Lauren Parr Activity in Spain’s distressed debt market is picking up, representing 43% of total planned real estate loan sales by banks across Europe this year, according to Cushman & Wakefield. Foreign banks exiting the market have been a growing source of opportunities for loan buyers. Commerzbank’s Project Octopus sale last […]
Deals involving UK secondary and Italian assets achieve keen pricing, reports Lauren Parr
ING and Nordea have won the financing mandate for Blackstone’s acquisition of a 200,000 sq m Central European logistics portfolio. The two banks are providing senior debt for the purchase of six distribution parks by Blackstone’s European logistics arm, Logicor from clients of Pramerica Real Estate Investors. The portfolio in Poland and the Czech Republic comprises: four […]
Bank of America Merrill Lynch sold its £211.5m Taurus CMBS UK 2014-1 yesterday to 15 investors, with the class A notes tightening to 140 basis points over three month Libor. Europe’s second new CMBS this year to price and close was oversubscribed twice overall. Initial guidance had been 150 bps for the class As (up to […]
Goldman Sachs has today launched the third new European CMBS deal this year. The €198.2m MODA 2014 transaction is the third European CMBS and the second Italian deal this year. It follows DECO-2014 Gondola, Deutsche Bank’s first post-crisis Italian deal which was sold last week, and Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Taurus UK 2014-1 where the loan is […]
Legal & General has issued its third social housing loan in six months – a £40m facility for Rooftop Housing Group. This brings its commitment to the sector to £232m, including a £102m loan it provided to The Hyde Group in March 2013 which marked the commercial lending business’s first social housing loan. Its latest […]