BNP Paribas Investment Partners, the asset management arm of the French banking group BNP Paribas, is planning to raise capital for a European real estate lending strategy, Real Estate Capital has learned.

Oaktree Capital Management has raised a total of $694.39 million in capital for its real estate debt fund, according to Real Estate Capital's sister title, Private Debt Investor.

Pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank has issued a US dollar-denominated mortgage Pfandbrief, with a total volume placed of $600 million.

GTC Group, a central, eastern and southern Europe-focussed property company, has sourced a €64 million loan to finance the development of a shopping centre in the Serbian capital Belgrade.

Cain Hoy, the real estate investor and lender, has teamed up with Qatar Investment Authority to provide a £450 million financing of a 27-storey office tower development in London’s Docklands.

Competition among lenders for prime real estate lending deals in the UK market during Q1 2017 resulted in some unwinding of the rise in loan margins which occurred in the immediate aftermath of the UK’s Brexit vote last June, new research by CBRE suggests.

Investec Structured Property Finance has provided Irish developer Ballymore’s first loan since it exited the Irish National Asset Management Agency in a deal which also marks Investec’s return to investment lending since 2006.

France is due to go to the polls on Sunday and a June general election has been called in the UK. Politics continues to lead the agenda for European real estate.

Morgan Stanley has securitised a portion of the circa £345 million whole loan which it provided to Blackstone last May to refinance the Devonshire Square estate in the City of London.

Lloyds’ €600m syndicated financing of Unibail-Rodamco – complete with sustainability incentives – hints at the possibilities for a European ‘green’ property lending market.