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Welcome to Real Estate Capital Europe’s guide to the real estate debt advisers active in Europe today.
Trade tensions and shifting geopolitics are reshaping the risk landscape for European CRE, driving heightened scrutiny, slower dealflow and a renewed focus on asset quality, warns Rebecca Percossi, Trimont’s head of international.
European real estate lenders are shifting gears as origination returns, but financing remains selective, argues First Growth’s Francesca Galante.
Inside: How the refinancing crunch is making debt advisers and loan servicers more essential than ever; Our guide to the industry’s leading debt advisers; Expert comment from First Growth and Trimont; Plus much more…
ICG Real Estate provides financing to support the delivery of a hyperscale data centre in East London; ING, SMBC, BayernLB issue £290 million (€334 million) for Sea Containers, an office and hotel asset; Värde Partners underwrites Swedish multifamily properties with SKr1.7 billion (€150 million) loan; 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.
The PERE Podcast highlights the outcast sector’s renewed momentum in New York, London and beyond, featuring Savills research director Oliver Salmon.
Lenders including ING, Cheyne Capital and BGO have been busy writing significant loan deals in the London market; synthetic risk transfer analysed as banks and debt fund managers put their heads together; Revolut makes hires as the challenger lender targets real estate financing; and more in today's briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.
Inside: Marriage of convenience – How synthetic risk transfer is bringing banks and debt funds together; What German debt brake reform means for real estate lenders; Emerging debt managers make their mark; And much more…
Collaboration with non-bank lenders is enabling real estate banking to adapt to evolving borrower needs, say pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank’s Charles Balch and Duncan Pearson.
British Land and GIC's 1 Broadgate receives a £450 million (€521 million) five-year green loan; HSBC and three other lenders issue a total of £736.9 million to refinance UK purpose-built student accommodation assets; Aareal Bank arranges a club deal to finance Nido Living portfolio; 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.