Macro-economic prospects, challenges for investors, and bankers' efforts to cope with low margins were among topics of discussion at this week's EXPO Real fair in Munich.
A conservative approach to lending is favouring real estate finance in core London, which is widening disparities in lending across the UK regions.
The past decade has been turbulent for European real estate finance, but the market that has emerged is more robust.
Advisory services are becoming a more accepted aspect of commercial property markets on this side of the Atlantic, although they lag their heavily intermediated American counterpart.
Following Santander’s rescue of Banco Popular, its JV deal with Blackstone to tackle €30bn of distressed real estate assets could prove a success story for both the bank and the private equity real estate giant.
Europe’s largest private real estate deal will involve a €6.8 billion loan, but Chinese banks are likely to be first in line for the €3 billion that will be syndicated.
Our recent special report on the health of the German real estate lending market laid bare the challenges facing the country’s banks. Driven by their funding model, real estate bankers are under continual pressure to replenish property loans to maintain the pools of assets that back their issuance of Pfandbrief notes; their principle source of […]
Real estate development is not a ‘one-size-fits-all’ business. From choosing a plot of land, to selecting building materials, to financing assets, the options grow the bigger you build.
US regional banks are winning the greatest share of CRE originations as CMBS falters. New York Community Bank is a small fish in a big pond. Specialising in multifamily loans in New York City, the bank can’t compete with the likes of Wells Fargo or JPMorgan on Manhattan’s prime assets, lending instead on small- to […]
It was a relatively small deal but it may have signalled something big. This summer, Pembrook Capital Management stepped in with a $16.6 million loan to support the acquisition of the Mark Twain Hotel in Chicago by NHP Foundation, a New York-based not-for-profit real estate corporation.