Retail property fund manager Pradera has hired John Hopkins as finance director for its recently-launched Pradera European Retail Parks Fund (PERP).

The Bank of England’s concern about ‘stretched’ commercial property values serves as a reminder for real estate lenders to remain vigilant.

Och-Ziff Real Estate, the real estate arm of New York-based alternative asset manager Och-Ziff Capital Management, has reached a final close for its first real estate debt fund on $735 million, Real Estate Capital's sister publication, Private Debt Investor, has revealed.

There was a partial recovery in borrower demand for property debt in the UK market during the six months to the end of Q1 2017, although the country’s real estate finance sector is “increasingly fragmented”, according to the latest research released by debt advisor and investment manager Laxfield Capital.

Pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank has provided a €29 million loan to refinance a Finnish office property owned by asset manager Schroders.

Given the losses suffered by banks on legacy property loans, the real estate lending market’s diversification is of systemic importance.

US real estate brokerage HFF has added a debt specialist to its recently-launched London business with the hiring of Edward Daubeney from Cushman & Wakefield, Real Estate Capital has learned.

Germany’s HSH Nordbank wrote €1.1 billion of new real estate financing business during Q1 2017, as it continued to bolster its core business ahead of a planned privatisation.

Goldman Sachs has provided fresh debt to the revamped Dutch office portfolio which was once securitised in Europe's first defaulted CMBS.

More evidence that Asian investors have their sights set on European assets, creating financing opportunities.