Jane Roberts

AXA Investment Managers - Real Asset is expected to hold a final close on the fund soon and is predicting that the pace of deployment in 2017 will be similar to the previous 12 months.

Venn Partners has sold its second PRS bond, at tighter pricing than the first issued three weeks ago.

Two Swedish pension funds and Norway’s largest life insurer have backed the vehicle.

Andrea Pittaluga joins CBRE from Lloyds as a senior director.

BVK has handed Deutsche Asset Management a €750m mandate to invest in real estate debt in both the US and Europe.

The firm is modifying its listed senior debt fund strategy, which targets investments in UK property, in order to meet its dividends target.

The Bank of England has cut regulatory capital buffers in response to Brexit, which it claimed will result in the banks lending £150bn.

M&G Real Estate Finance, one of the leading European institutional debt fund lenders, has seen a significant fall-off in lending in 2016.

ING has backed international investor The Olayan Group, underwriting a $570 million bridge loan for the Middle Eastern family office’s acquisition of the Sony Building in Manhattan, PDI sister publication Real Estate Capital reports.  

The fund manager’s VeCREF 1 vehicle, which targets the mid-market, is aiming for a £250m final total.