Alicia Villegas
The bank will allow Germany’s Sparkassen to take sub-€1m participations in real estate loans.
The margin gap has contracted due to a rise in corporate bond spreads during Q1 2018.
To move with the times, banks’ real estate units are investing in technology, often in partnership with start-ups.
Citi and Morgan Stanley have securitised debt written against a Finnish property platform.
Technology disrupts, but is real estate keeping pace? In the first of a four-part report on fintech, Lauren Parr discovers online platforms may be only a tiny part of the property finance market, but they are important innovators.
Germany’s HSH Nordbank has been sold to a private equity consortium. Doug Morrison asks what that means for its real estate lending business.
Legal & General Investment Management has hired Lorna Brown from Blackstone to grow its real estate lending business. Alicia Villegas finds out about her plans.
Adding shorter-duration loans to a debt portfolio minimises investors’ exposure to an uncertain future, writes Will Rowson, partner at Hodes Weill.
Legal & General Investment Management has hired Lorna Brown from Blackstone to grow its real estate lending business. Alicia Villegas finds out about her plans.
Lenders stand to benefit from the growth of an ethical real estate finance market, beyond the obvious reasons.