Alternative lenders

Investors are seeking out lower-risk alternatives to existing fixed income and real asset equity exposure, according to investment consultant bfinance.

Strong institutional demand for more risk plays into the hands of non-bank property lenders.

The real estate debt fund manager has financed an apartment development in the wealthy St John’s Wood area.

The deal will see ARA take a majority stake in Venn and assist with its expansion.

The real estate debt fund manager has raised £500m by first close for its fourth senior property lending vehicle.

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The Real Estate Finance business of consultancy Link Group, which is launching its fourth annual survey of the UK real estate debt market, expects to see greater supply of debt from German and other continental European lenders.

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The investment manager has provided its largest UK build-to-rent development loan to date to developer Apache Capital Partners.

Stories about non-bank lenders and non-traditional asset classes were among the most popular of the year.