Interview

In the third instalment of our 2020 interviews review, we revisit discussions on diversity, responding to covid-19, and how lenders are dealing with troubled loans.

During 2020, we spoke to some of the leading participants in the European real estate finance market. Here is some of what they had to say.

Throughout 2020, we spoke to the industry's leading participants, often virtually. Here is some of what we learned.

Strong investor demand and less stringent national lockdown measures have supported the country’s real estate sector, says the Stockholm-based firm’s debt boss, Pontus Sundin.

The Hague-based asset manager is partnering with traditional lenders as it targets medium-term growth of its property debt platform to up to €10bn.

The author of the most comprehensive survey of the German real estate debt market expects asset selection to be crucial to lenders’ fortunes.

Shiva Hotels' managing director on financing hospitality during covid-19

The Canadian giant has hired property finance specialist Martin Farinola to grow its European lending business

The chief executive of AXA Investment Managers – Real Assets has risen to the top by taking on one entrepreneurial challenge after another.

Why the manager of the world’s biggest broker bypassed the time it takes to set up a debt platform organically in the region by buying one instead.