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

Financings like the £60m, five-year revolving credit facility for Supermarket Income REIT should become more regular in the UK grocery retail sector as demand mounts.

While debt providers are right to be highly cautious of the troubled sector, there are compelling financing deals to be found amid the gloom.

Private equity firms which bought legacy loan portfolios in recent years face the challenge of keeping workout plans on target.

The firm had more than $20bn of inflows in Q2 2020, which includes significant capital raised for the Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies IV.

Nordics lender Nordea offered competitively priced debt, but was picked to finance the Trinity Quarter development, in part to strengthen the US manager’s lending ties in the region.

Western and southern Europe are on the menu in the first instance for the UK insurer, followed by the Nordics, newly-appointed head of real estate James Spencer-Jones tells REC.

An increased number of investors are optimistic about the long-term future of hospitality, but lenders remain circumspect for now.

Jayne Backett, banking partner with law firm Fieldfisher, says debt providers need to consider the unique risks of financing data centres.

Securitised real estate debt has been battered by the covid-19 pandemic. Now institutional managers must decide what to do about it.