Lucy Scott

The most important UK and Continental European commercial real estate deals collected in our database, updated every Friday.

The German backers of the London project have agreed to inject £500m of equity as part of the refinancing.

The EQT-backed operator was the third data centre owner to tap the region’s capital markets.

The manager says there is ‘momentum’ behind its fundraising activities as it targets a €500m final close.

UK swap rates and eurozone rose ahead of the UK central bank’s announcement that it would hold rates at 3.75%.

The capital will enable the UK lender to offer more competitively priced loans to residential borrowers.

The financing tool is a ‘defining force’ in Europe’s real estate market, says Knight Frank Capital Advisory.

The chief executive of pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank said its US exit and a ‘sluggish’ recovery will continue to weigh on the lender.

Real estate lenders are finding multiple entry points to the sector, but competing with infrastructure capital requires a new approach to underwriting.

As banks and debt funds seek efficiency in a fragmented and fast-growing back leverage market, warehouse-style structures are becoming the preferred route.