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NewsLondonMetric completes on £780m of debt refinancings
REIT agrees two lending streams and a private debt placement to increase debt maturity by four years
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Fairfield lends £17m on Padlock’s self-storage assets
Fairfield Real Estate Finance has backed Canadian investor Padlock Partners UK Fund I with a £17m loan on a UK based self-storage portfolio.
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LSL and Pollen Street launch £200m mortgage broking JV
LSL Property Service has formed a £200m joint venture with Pollen Street Capital with the target of becoming the UK’s leading national mortgage broker.
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Commercial property lending market slumps 23% in 2020
Report shows loan-to-value ratios reached historic low during a year of lockdowns and slow market activity
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QIP secures £23m refinancing deal with Invesco on student development
Q Investment Partners (QIP) has secured a £23m refinancing of Straits Village, its 300-bed UK purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) complex in Nottingham.
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Aviva agrees £73m green loan to CEG
Aviva Investors has completed a £73m sustainable transition loan agreement with property investment management and development company Commercial Estates Group (CEG).
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Santander appoints Colliers to manage property disposal programme
Santander has appointed Colliers to oversee its property disposal programme, following the bank’s announcement that it plans to close 111 of its branches across the UK.
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Aviva agrees finance deal with AIMCo and Canmoor on industrial assets
Aviva Investors has provided a £184.7m senior debt facility to Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo) and Canmoor.
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Aviva Investors provides £26.7m to Pictet JV
Aviva Investors has provided two senior debt facilities to a joint venture between Pictet Group, Marchmont Investment Management and Pinnacle Investments.
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OakNorth provides £25.4m loan for Leeds office building
OakNorth Bank has provided a £25.4m loan to a subsidiary of Scarborough Group International for the development of a Leeds office building.
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A positive spin on negative rates
Is the much-touted prospect of interest rates going negative finally receding as we head into the spring with high hopes for a post-pandemic economic bounce?
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Urban Logistics agrees new £48m loan facility
Property investment company Urban Logistics has entered a £48m loan facility with Aviva Investors.
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Will others follow HSBC and Lloyds in slashing footprints?
Banks blame downsizing on shift to homeworking as fears mount that other major occupiers will follow suit
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Why the BTR sector is still a banker
Development is one of the trickiest parts of being a property lender. So much can go wrong: planning wrinkles, problems in the ground before a structure starts rising, construction delays and disputes, and finally the risk of leasing a speculative project.
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Pluto Finance targets £600m in new lending
Specialist residential development lender Pluto Finance is targeting £600m in new lending over the course of this year, following the repayment of £300m from its loan book in the past six months.
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Shawbrook Bank provides Ingenious Real Estate Finance credit facility
Ingenious Real Estate Finance has secured a £25m revolving credit facility from Shawbrook Bank to support its development and bridging finance portfolio.
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Civitas secures £85m loan from M&G
Civitas Social Housing has secured a new seven-year term, interest only loan facility of £84.55m from M G Investment Management.
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LiveWest issues £250m in MTNs
Housing association LiveWest has issued a £250m, 35-year bond priced at 1.904%.
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Impact Capital Group launches new lending arm
Property and construction firm Impact Capital Group has launched a new business arm that will provide financing solutions to external developers.
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Silbury provides first retirement loan to Audley Group JV
A joint venture between retirement home investor Audley Group, Schroders Real Estate and Octopus Real Estate has completed on a £47m development finance facility with Silbury Finance.
