The rapid evolution of the European logistics sector presents financiers with the opportunity to tap in to an exciting growth area, but it also puts them into uncharted territory. Perhaps more than any other real estate sector, the very nature of logistics is changing. While many lenders now recognise the appeal of financing logistics, getting […]
Over the last 12 months, the European logistics sector has been subject to a series of mega-deals, most of them funded by Asian capital and carrying a substantial amount of debt. Large platform deals are being driven by the huge volume of equity in the global real estate market, which investors are competing to deploy, […]
The European property industry remains cautious but positive on the coming year, bolstered by an improving macroeconomic outlook for the eurozone and real estate’s continued attractiveness as an asset class, according to the Emerging Trends in Real Estate Europe 2018 survey.
The European logistics property market is booming, and lenders are aiming to capitalise. Lauren Parr reports.
UBS Asset Management has provided four loans totalling £44.5 million (€49.6 million) in Q3 through the UBS Participating Real Estate Mortgage Fund (UBS-PREMF).
Berlin Hyp has issued its second unsecured ‘green’ Pfandbrief, representing the German bank’s fourth green bond issue since 2015, with a total volume of €2 billion.
The report shows a raft of organisations keen to originate debt, but deals more difficult to source.
Allianz Real Estate seeks to execute €2 billion of new debt investments.
Sales of real estate loans and lender-owned properties look set to surpass the €85.9 billion 2015 market peak this year, on the back of large-scale loan sales and securitisations of non-core debt in the Spanish and Italian markets.
Average lending margins across European real estate finance markets have increased in the last six months, while leverage has crept up in selected cities, according to new research by Cushman & Wakefield.