Real estate debt

Record fundraising in Q3 for private debt as investors seek stable returns.

A rise in ventures targeting programs of less than $100m a loan should be viewed as a barometer for broader commercial real estate financing markets.

With Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac potentially in line to lose their grip on the US residential mortgage market, might SWFs be among those filling a financing gap?

‘Bad boy’ guarantees offer lenders protection from unscrupulous sponsor behaviour, but definition and enforcement may present challenges, writes Stephenson Harwood’s Daniel Andrews.

Sitting apart from both the home mortgage lending and commercial real estate worlds, RTLs are caught between two camps – but they could change the face of the US housing market.

US lenders and investors attempt to keep pace with a rapidly evolving inflationary and political environment.

The CIO and investment strategy head exit the $36bn AUM life insurer after Brookfield’s recent move to acquire it, Private Debt Investor has learned.

A Washington pension is turning its attention to asset-backed lending, real estate debt and other strategies as it bolsters new private credit programme in $2.3bn portfolio.