Borrowers

The winners of the Real Estate Capital Awards 2019 demonstrated creativity against a backdrop of challenging market conditions.

CREFC Europe’s Q1 sentiment survey shows increased bullishness among real estate professionals.

The winning organisations and deals in our 2019 awards highlight a property finance market in full flow, even late into the real estate cycle.

Debt providers from outside the region were a major source of finance in southern Europe’s property markets last year.

Although Brexit and the crisis in retail dampened investment, debt providers did brisk business in the UK in 2019.

Read on to find out which organisations and deals were voted last year’s best.

The French capital overtook London as 2019’s best-performing European city market, and debt providers were keen to get involved.

An ESG-linked debt facility, a co-living loan, and the conditional financing of a retail landlord were among this month’s key transactions.

The UK's regulator has thrown its support behind the SONIA benchmark as a replacement for LIBOR, which could have knock-on consequences for private debt documentation.

Macroeconomic tailwinds supported lenders stateside in the last three months of 2019.