CBRE’s specialist property finance unit, CBRE Capital Advisors, has launched a dedicated team in France under the watch of the firm’s former valuation advisory head Abdallah Ould Brahim.

ING Real Estate Finance and Bilbao-based BBVA have provided €104 million of debt finance to Spanish SOCIMI Lar Espana Real Estate.

The mood at MIPIM, which took place in Cannes this week, was perhaps lifted by the beautiful weather on the French Riviera. After wind and rain subdued the atmosphere at 2016’s gathering, this year’s property fair was bathed in sunshine. It’s tempting to make the weather a metaphor for the tone of the real estate […]

Allianz Real Estate has taken a participation in the senior financing of the CityPoint tower in the City of London, as it continues to build a UK loan book.

Despite the dip, the amount of new debt and equity available for real estate investment globally remains the second-highest on record.

The real estate lending business of Swiss asset manager GAM is raising its second European debt fund, with a first close targeted by the end of Q2 2017, Real Estate Capital has learned.

The total volume of new debt issued against European commercial real estate in 2016 was €116 billion, reflecting 46 percent of investment transactions totalling €255 billion, CBRE Capital Advisors has estimated.

Three Spanish banks and a French bank have provided a €263 million loan to shopping centre investor Intu to fund its purchase of a mall in Madrid, Spain.

Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking’s real estate division wrote £8.6 billion of new lending in the UK market during 2016, down from £9 billion during 2015.

An initiative announced this week aims to bring the worlds of crowdfunding and institutional real estate debt fund management closer together.