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The US manager has backed the launch of a new lending business by former Man Group and Octopus Real Estate executives to capitalise on the UK’s residential financing gap.

The Business School’s Nicole Lux has teamed up with fintech entrepreneur Thomas Schneider to launch a property debt-specific software platform.

The German bank says energy efficiency was a key reason to finance Brunswick and Pictet’s Swedish data centre acquisition.

We predict debt capital to shift towards alternative sectors, lenders to tackle distressed situations and banks to make strategic divestments.

The investment manager says long leases and quality tenants are among its reasons to finance the transaction.

Real estate market participants expect more investment in alternative property types, repurposing to become more prevalent and sustainability to be prioritised in 2021.

The advisory expects a surge in manager-led recaps to avoid forced sales or hang onto promising assets for a longer duration.

In the second of a two-part review of 2020, we examine how real estate lenders continued to do business, and raise fresh capital, amid the uncertainty created by covid-19.

In the first of a two-part review of 2020, we examine how the pandemic brought the European property sector to a near-halt.

The UK insurer has pledged to originate £1bn in sustainable real estate debt by 2025 under its new sustainability framework.