CarVal Investors has funded its purchase of two French retail parks with a €28 million loan provided by Deutsche Pfandbriefbank (pbb).
AnaCap Financial Partners and Arrow Global Limited have bought a €127 million Dutch loan portfolio from Amsterdam-based lender GE Artesia NV.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) has provided a €575 million loan to refinance the Certeum portfolio of Finnish logistics properties, which is majority owned by Blackstone and sits within its Logicor platform.
Berlin Hyp has become the first German bank to issue a Pfandbrief covered bond with a negative issue yield.
Neil Hasson, the former head of European real estate lending for Macquarie, has been hired by Investcorp to spearhead its European property investment programme.
UK retail REIT Hammerson is aiming to raise €500 million through a bond issue in order to partially refinance the revolving credit facility which funded its purchases of an Irish loan portfolio and a shopping centre in Birmingham.
ING Real Estate Finance and BNP Paribas have teamed up to provide a €160 million loan secured against a shopping gallery in the Italian city of Milan.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) has released initial price thoughts for its latest CMBS, the €317.05 million Taurus 2016-1 DEU which is backed by a German retail portfolio owned by Blackstone.
Capital & Regional is reviewing options for the refinancing of the £380 million loan secured by The Mall shopping centre portfolio, which is due to mature in 2019. The group is targeting a refinancing or restructuring of the debt this year.
Irish housebuilder Cairn Homes has increased the size of an existing €150 million debt facility provided by Allied Irish Banks (AIB) by adding Ulster Bank as a lender.