Doug Morrison

When Lehman Brothers failed, banks’ real estate lending units pulled down the shutters. The implications are still being dealt with a decade later.

With almost $8bn raised worldwide for private real estate debt strategies in Q1 2018, investor interest shows no signs of waning.

Germany’s HSH Nordbank has been sold to a private equity consortium. Doug Morrison asks what that means for its real estate lending business.

How will the real estate lending industry deal with the phasing out of its pricing benchmark?

After years of negotiation, the shape of the Basel Committee’s landmark banking regulation has emerged from the mist.

Royal Bank of Scotland is being sued in the High Court for an alleged breach of a loan agreement involving one of the highest profile residential developments to fall victim to the downturn, Real Estate Capital can reveal. John Morris, the developer behind the luxury Charters scheme near Sunningdale, south west London, is suing RBS for reneging on an agreed banking facility to finance the final construction works at the site in September 2008.

Enterprise Finance, the mortgage broker backed by ISIS Equity Partners, is bidding to tap the growing market for bridging finance for property development following the takeover of specialist lender West One Loans. Enterprise, which is the UK’s largest specialist distributor of secured loans, has funded the transaction through a combination of cash and equity although […]