Alternative lenders in UK real estate are really making their presence felt now. Insurance companies and non-bank lenders provided almost one quarter of new lending in 2017, according to The Cass Business School’s recent UK Commercial Real Estate Lending report.
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BMO Real Estate Partners (BMO REP) has added a third asset to its new retail real estate fund, Best Value Europe II. The fund's medium-term objective is to acquire upwards of €1 bn of high street retail property in major European cities.
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European logistics specialist Delin Capital Asset Management (DCAM) has appointed Jeff Pym as chief financial officer.
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Peakside Capital, an international real estate investor, and KD Funds, one of the oldest asset managers in South East Europe (SEE), have made the maiden acquisition for Slovenia’s first regulated real estate Alternative Investment Fund.
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Principal Global Investors (PGI) has completed the acquisition of Internos Global Investors.
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Aareal Bank has announced that Hermann Merkens has been re-appointed to another term of five years as chairman of the management board.
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Aviva Investors has acquired an education centre in Kristiansand, southern Norway on behalf of its Continental European Long Lease Strategy Fund (CELLS).
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NSI, an Amsterdam-listed landlord with a €1 bn office portfolio, has reduced its cost of debt with a €480 mln refinancing agreement.
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An opportunity fund advised by Tristan Capital Partners and Finch Properties has acquired a 40,000 m2, fully-occupied office complex in Sternengasse, Cologne city centre.
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UK REIT LondonMetric Property has sold four distribution and two industrial warehouses in the latest in a series of transactions. The six assets were divested for a total of £36 mln (€41 mln), reflecting a blended net initial yield of 5.9%.
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Central London's Grade A office market has seen a 4% increase in take-up volume compared to the five-year quarterly average before the pandemic, according to new data from Cushman & Wakefield.
