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NewsOakNorth Bank provides SME loan for Brighton resi scheme
OakNorth Bank has provided a £2.7m loan to SME housebuilder Martin Homes for a residential development in Brighton.
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Arc & Co lends £12m on Isleworth residential scheme
Arc & Co has completed a £12m development loan with ME Developments and Octopus Real Estate to help fund a housing development in Isleworth, London, Property Week can reveal.
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Is it a lending race to the bottom?
In recent months, some leading real estate names, including Kennedy Wilson, Delancey, Tristan and Ares, have announced their intention to enter the European debt market, attracted by the risk-adjusted returns on offer and diversification benefits.
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Torsion secures £55m financing for apartment scheme in Leeds
Maslow Capital has agreed a financing package worth £55m for Torsion Developments and Khlabros Group’s Phoenix apartment scheme in Leeds.
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What next as UK banks stop banking on the high street?
Leading high street banks have identified more than 200 ‘last-in-town’ branches they intend to close
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Treasury chair flags fears over ‘last in town’ bank closures
The chair of an influential parliamentary committee has raised concerns about the potential closures of ‘last in town’ bank branches, as banking giants review their property portfolios across the UK.
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Audley receives £40m Homes England loan
Audley Group has received a £40m loan from Homes England that it says will accelerate the construction of a retirement scheme and help with a recently announced joint venture.
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Lloyds eyes up 50,000 homes in the next decade
Banking giant Lloyds is gearing up to become one of the UK’s largest landlords and aims to buy 50,000 homes in the next decade.
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BNP Paribas and DekaBank loan £120m for Paddington’s The Point
BNP Paribas and DekaBank have provided a new, five-year £120m loan secured on The Point, Paddington, a 233,539 sq ft HQ multi-let office building in central London that was purchased by Tishman Speyer in 2014.
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Gresham House loaned £30m to grow BTR pipeline
Gresham House has agreed a long-term debt facility of up to £30m to support further investment in affordable mid-market build-to-rent housing through its British Strategic Investment Fund (BSIF) strategy.
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UTB lends £22m to Kent housing developer
United Trust Bank (UTB) has funded the first phase of a new development in Chestfield, developed by Kent housebuilding group Kitewood.
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Alantra advises Oakland Care on new financing package
Alantra, the independent global mid-market investment banking firm, has advised Synova and Oakland Care on a new five-year financing package.
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Octopus finances studio purchase
Real estate lender and investor Octopus Real Estate has completed a £30m loan to Ridgeway Property Holdings to aid the acquisition of a 182,764 sq ft office and warehouse space to be used as film and TV studios in Mill Hill, north London.
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Allica Bank unveils SME loans offer
Allica Bank is set to lend £50m at an interest rate of 3.5% in an eight-week promotion aimed at small and medium-sized firms seeking owner-occupied commercial mortgages.
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L&G secures £265m facility to refinance existing lending
Legal General Investment Management (LGIM) Real Assets’ build to rent (BTR) fund, has secured a £265m debt facility from a consortium of lenders.
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Paragon development finance arm aims to double lending
The business has lent £1.5bn in three years and is now looking to lend the same again in the next two years.
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Zorin enters North East England market
Zorin Finance has made its first investment in the North East of England following an £11m loan to a local developer.
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Shawbrook hits target to lend £1bn to developers year early
The bank provided 92 loans with a value of £380m to UK property developers in the 12 months to April.
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How lenders survived Covid-19
Being a real estate lender during the pandemic has been a rollercoaster ride, but has been far less bumpy than in the last property downturn after the global financial crisis.
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Hibernia turns to US for fundraising
Hibernia REIT has entered an agreement to issue €125m (£107m) of new unsecured US private placement notes, which will help fund development of two of the group’s Dublin office projects.
