Residential

Legal & General has issued its third social housing loan in six months – a £40m facility for Rooftop Housing Group. This brings its commitment to the sector to £232m, including a £102m loan it provided to The Hyde Group in March 2013 which marked the commercial lending business’s first social housing loan. Its latest […]

Colony American Homes’ second single-family rental securitization, the $558.5m Colony American Homes 2014-2, is on the market, becoming the fifth such offering in the rapidly growing asset class. Despite inherent risks in this and other SFR deals, such as house price volatility, managers with limited operating history, and the  geographic concentration of the assets, analysts tell […]

ING Bank has provided €120m of finance for Round Hill Capital’s purchase of the largest Dutch residential portfolio to trade since the financial crisis. The five-year debt reflects a loan-to-value ratio of 66%. ING has syndicated some of the debt to two non-Dutch insitutional players. Round Hill has acquired 1,534 units spanning 140,000 sq m for […]

Legal & General has provided its second loan to the social housing sector this year – a £50m facility to support Housing Solutions’ six-year pipeline of 1,600 affordable homes across the South East. The 40-year debt reflects an all-in cost of sub 5%. Typical loan asset cover levels in the sector are around 105%. L&G’s […]