Lending

The Qatar Investment Authority has signed a debt facility with a syndicate of six banks to refinance its global headquarters in the Canary Wharf financial district.

Investor interest in Asia-Pacific real estate debt is increasing, but these two markets stand out.

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

Investment volumes for German offices are down as investors and their lenders increasingly look to Spain.

Georges Asmar's new venture will target Europe’s $4trn corporate real estate market.

European banks’ growing interest in funding non-bank lenders illustrates how the continent’s property debt market is coming to resemble its US counterpart.

UK retail real estate values are falling, forcing lenders to question their exposure to the sector. Download our presentation for more.

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.

Panellists at the fifth annual Real Estate Conference in Oxford insisted that reckless lending is no longer the norm, but warned of parallels with the activities that occurred in the run-up to the global financial crisis.

The results of Link Asset Services' latest lending market survey show growing caution among debt providers.