Jane Roberts

Italian property company Gruppo Statuto has placed a €59 million bond to finance the conversion of a Rome office building into a luxury W Hotel.

CBRE Capital Advisors has appointed banker Victoria Hill to expand the firm’s regional UK debt advisory business. Hill, a regional director who joined from RBS, is based in Manchester and is the first of CBRE Capital Advisors’ debt and structured finance team to work outside London.

M&G Investments is planning to raise follow on capital for its European senior and junior debt strategies and is considering a development finance fund, after investing £2.2 billion in CRE debt in 2015, Real Estate Capital can reveal.

CBRE continues to expand its corporate finance service, making a key hire to advise clients in the European hotels real estate sector. The business has recruited former KPMG and Grant Thornton partner Ian Corfield.

Morgan Stanley has syndicated about €150 million of mezzanine debt secured on Ireland’s Blanchardstown regional shopping mall near Dublin with two debt funds, Real Estate Capital can reveal.

Urban Exposure, the UK residential development finance specialist, has announced it has set up a non-exclusive partnership with challenger bank Shawbrook.

Royal Bank of Scotland expects to lend £1 billion to the UK private rental scheme (PRS) market in the next 12-18 months, about one sixth of its £6 billion annual lending to real estate.

Oxford Properties and Brockton Capital have sealed their joint venture to speculatively develop The Post Building in central London and closed the financing with BNP Paribas and pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank.

Debt fund manager Tyndaris Real Estate closed six new loans in the final quarter of 2015 and has made three hires including Imo Skrzypczyk from Bank of America Merrill Lynch.