With a greater number and broader range of lenders seeking opportunities in Europe, the choice for borrowers can be baffling. Real Estate Capital's editor, Andy Thomson, meets senior executives at Laxfield Capital to find out more about how it brings together those in need of finance with those providing it.
Over the last two years, the likes of Venn, M3 Capital Partners, Prudential Financial, M&G and Legal & General have been allocating large sums to the build-to-let market.
There’s nothing quite like MIPIM. On Tuesday, with the sun beating down and the tempo sedate, the property extravaganza in Cannes was keeping the punters calm and happy. On Wednesday, as the wind howled and rain lashed anyone brave enough to venture outside the packed Palais des Festivals ‘bunker’, the whole shebang suddenly seemed more challenging […]
Political, economic and financial headwinds threaten to blow market off course, says Colliers
Banking and finance partner Ian Frost has joined the Finance Practice of law firm Vinson & Elkins in London. He was previously a partner in the London office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
Amid continuing low interest rates, ease of availability and low return requirements, senior loans in Germany are tipped to “increase in attractiveness in the future” according to the EY Real Estate Capital Radar Germany 2016 report.
There is strong positive sentiment around the performance of the US economy, which stands in sharp contrast to views of the global economy.
“The whole market is moving up the risk curve”. This was one of many striking pronouncements made at our REC Germany Forum 2016 in Frankfurt in mid-February.
At our annual Frankfurt gathering, hopes were high that Europe’s economies were moving in the right direction – but there were other reasons for anxiety. Andy Thomson reports.
On these pages and in the features that follow, we discover where real estate capital is coming from and where it is going. One resounding conclusion: never before has it been so mobile. Andy Thomson reports.