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The US real estate investment firm has established a new credit platform with an institutional investor to target European lending opportunities.
The Monaco and London-based manager is understood to have begun fundraising for its third property lending vehicle.
The UK manager plans to apply a new lending framework to all its real estate loans, starting with a soon-to-be-launched debt fund.
Hanno Kowalski, managing partner of the Berlin-based debt provider, says demand for junior loans against core assets means mezzanine lenders, and their investors, are taking less risk.
The Madrid-based mid-market lender aims to invest around a third of the vehicle’s capital in real estate credit opportunities.
The debt fund manager’s head of senior debt said Tristan Capital Partners’ plans to future-proof Reading International Business Park convinced it to back the project.
The US private equity firm, which sold its last remaining UK hotels in 2018, has written a £100m-plus loan against a portfolio of Hiltons.
Ali Otmar of Tristan Capital Partners and Ben Eppley of Apollo Global Management discuss a transaction, which Otmar says required the 'extreme end of flexibility'.
Large pools of capital have been raised for distressed strategies, but thanks to government support schemes, finding a home for it is proving a challenge.
Panellists at CREFC Europe’s conference on offices say lenders are factoring in capex programmes and shorter leases when underwriting properties.