industrial & logistics

The bank’s head of real estate for Iberia says the high quality of the Montepino Spanish logistics portfolio acquired by Bankinter Investment convinced it to provide a €470m loan.

Ali Otmar of Tristan Capital Partners and Ben Eppley of Apollo Global Management discuss a transaction, which Otmar says required the 'extreme end of flexibility'.

Following the bank’s €400m refinancing of a pan-European logistics portfolio for GLP, its managing director for special property finance says funding for multi-jurisdictional transactions is scarce.

Commercial mortgage-backed securities issuance in Europe is gaining traction, with six deals launched so far this year.

Among the past week’s most noteworthy items, Link Group’s latest debt survey found that most UK debt providers expect to increase loan originations in 2021 despite the persisting pandemic.

Debt providers are increasingly looking outside the most competitive markets for logistics lending opportunities, says the bank’s EMEA real estate head.

Following the Canadian bank’s financing of a pan-European logistics portfolio for GLP, its European real estate head says multi-jurisdictional transactions often generate higher returns.

Ross Davies talks to the CFO with the Prague-based industrial and logistics real estate company about sourcing debt in central and eastern Europe.

The investment manager was asked to arrange funding which met Islamic banking principles on behalf of a separate account client.