Category Archives: Insurance companies

British GRI 2013: two-day conference in just four weeks’ time

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Europe’s leading commercial real estate lenders, private equity investors and developers are gathering next month at the star-studded British GRI 2013 two-day conference, at which delegates and speakers will freely debate far-reaching market issues. The two-day event will host senior-level … Continue reading

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Friends Life selects BlackRock on £365m loan pool and nears £700m debt mandate award

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Friends Life, the UK pensions, investments and insurance company, has replaced AXA Investment Managers with BlackRock on a £365m private loan portfolio, and is separately understood to be near to awarding a segregated UK senior debt mandate for up to … Continue reading

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AIG and Goldman Sachs head five-lender Gagfah €2bn refinancing

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AIG and Goldman Sachs head a five-strong club of lenders alongside three German pfandbrief banks to refinance more than €1bn of Gagfah’s maturing €2.06bn securitised debt, CoStar News understands, as part of a wider refinancing strategy to diversify the sources … Continue reading

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Pacific Life and Pricoa in talks to refi Safra’s Plantation Place with £280m

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Moise Safra, the Brazilian banking mogul who acquired Plantation Place last May, has lined up US real estate insurance lenders Pacific Life and Pricoa Mortgage Capital Group to refinance the City of London trophy asset with a combined £280m, CoStar News … Continue reading

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AXA Real Estate eyes move up the risk curve for €2.3bn lending drive in 2013

AXA Real Estate Investment Managers will increasingly move up their risk curve for its senior debt lending programme this year as the insurance lender seeks to match last year’s €2.3bn lending tally. The pace of change in market dynamics in … Continue reading

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MetLife targets annual £750m UK lending drive in ‘big ticket’ deals

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MetLife has targeted an annual UK senior debt lending appetite of at least £750m this year and will continue at this pace to take the US insurance company’s senior loan book on this side of the Atlantic to around £3.5bn … Continue reading

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Tesco lines up JV sale-and-leaseback partner after pricing £493.4m CMBS

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Tesco has financed the sale-and-leaseback of seven UK Tesco supermarkets including three regional development sites valued at £455m, with a 21-year dated £493.4m securitisation guaranteed at corporate level by the world’s third largest supermarket chain. The credit-linked securitisation, at LTV … Continue reading

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Allianz to lend €1.5bn this year with €5bn eyed by 2015

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Allianz Real Estate, Europe’s largest insurance company, is seeking to lend €1.5bn in senior debt against German and French commercial property this year, as it seeks to build a €5bn loan book by the end of 2015. Speaking this morning … Continue reading

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