capital markets

Colony Capital’s CEO calls for lender leniency to avert a mortgage market collapse, triggering a financial crisis.

The UK specialist lender says its latest mortgage securitisation sets it up well for a “rocky period”.

Historic low rates are a boon for capital seekers, but institutional investors face newfound uncertainty as lower for longer threatens to become lower forever.

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

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

The year has already brought interesting developments in the areas of fundraising, M&A, flexible workspace and green finance.

Iain Balkwill, partner at law firm Reed Smith, argues that the legislative treatment of commercial mortgage-backed securities will harm the long-term growth of the product.

Commercial mortgage-backed securities issuance in Europe is gathering steam, with at least four deals in the pipeline.

Christian Aufsatz, head of European structured finance at rating agency DBRS, expects market dynamics to support a continued revival of Europe’s commercial real estate securitisation market.