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A 12-lender consortium provides €1.8 billion to Frankfurt-based data centre operator Maincubes; Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation issues €1.9 billion loan for Oaktree's data centre platform; Maslow Capital provides a £294 million (€340 million) facility for Criterion's hotel portfolio expansion; the latest additions to the Real Estate Capital Europe lending database; and more in our round-up of European loan deals from the past week.
Our first edition of 2026 brings news of major data centre financings in Ireland and Germany, with more than €2bn of financing across two deals; Blackstone sponsors the first European CMBS launched in 2026; Nuveen appoints its next global head of real estate debt; and more in today's briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.
Deutsche Bank provides a €415 million loan to refinance Dublin's former Irish Glass Bottle site; Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank provides a £360 million (€415 million) facility for a West End London office scheme and Ares issues Astra Partners with a €340 million facility to fund the construction of a data centre in Ireland. Plus: the latest additions to the Real Estate Capital Europe lending database; and more in our round-up of European loan deals over the past three weeks since our last update on 19 December.
Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies issues €100 million to a German self-storage platform; Goldman Sachs deploys a five-year £500 million loan into UK single-family housing; Rabobank provides Bouwinvest Dutch Institutional Residential Fund with a €200 million revolving credit facility; the latest additions to the Real Estate Capital Europe lending database; and more in our round-up of European loan deals from the past week.
In the year’s final episode of The PERE Podcast, the team breaks down the defining deals, shifting fundraising dynamics and key market trends of the past 12 months.
In this final edition of Term Sheet for 2025, the key themes of the year are examined in the latest edition of The PERE Podcast; Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund Mubadala forms a global real estate debt joint venture with Barings; Blackstone participates in the European CMBS market for the first time as a lender; and more in today's briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.
KKR provides €300 million for Tristan Capital Partners' easyHotel platform; Aareal Bank issues a €250 million loan to refinance a pan-European hotel portfolio; Santander and CaixaBank finance the acquisition of London's 'Can of Ham'; the latest additions to the Real Estate Capital Europe lending database; and more in our round-up of European loan deals from the past week.
Two banks back the purchase of London’s ‘Can of Ham’ office building in a significant deal for the resurgent sector; Cheyne Capital finances an upscale Spanish resort; REC Europe’s Active Lenders list is examined on the latest episode of The PERE Podcast; and more in today's briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.
Sigma Capital receives £268 million (€305 million) from US investment bank Morgan Stanley to recharge credit facilities; Aviva Investors provides Arora Group with £175 million facility for a central London office asset; British Business Bank issues Close Brothers Property Finance with a £350 million loan-on-loan facility; the latest additions to the Real Estate Capital Europe lending database; and more in our round-up of European loan deals from the past week.
Inside: Active Lenders 2025 – REC Europe’s annual guide to the banks and alternative lenders leading the market; Plus, our inaugural Lending Market Barometer reveals what market participants are thinking about the industry; And much more…