Real estate debt: archive
Every Real estate debt story in Real Estate, newest first. 453 stories
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New York Life writes the loan that prices Bader's Dallas basis
A life company's $39 million acquisition loan behind a 2010-vintage value-add buy says more about where the Dallas apartment clearing level sits than the occupancy count does.
A $130M industrial refi that was really an ownership trade
Wells Fargo's middle-market desk underwrote 39 buildings and 225 tenants, and Darwin's principals used the moment to buy out their partners and take the portfolio whole.
The apartment maturity wall is a rescue-capital market
With nearly $300 billion due this year and extensions replacing sales, the 2026 clearing basis for apartments is being set inside the debt stack, not at closing tables.
Cheyne closes ninth European real estate debt fund at £3bn
More than half the capital was already in loans at final close, making Cheyne’s £3 billion a deployment story wearing a fundraising headline.
TEP’s 98 federal leases now ride one $450m credit
The consolidation is the right structure. The release discloses value, not leverage, and the next deal will test whether the credit travels.
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New York Life bought a three-year exit, not a Midtown East mark
The $386 million against 200 Madison Avenue is sized to Havas's lease and the lender's short clock, leaving the office market a debt basis instead of a price.
Avatar buys the seasoning a bank won't wait for
A $4.75 million bridge clears two layers of debt on a fully leased Santa Ana warehouse, and the takeout at month seven tests whether the wait was priced right.
Hudson Bay lends $85M against a Microsoft lease in SoHo
The refinance prices one tenant's rent roll ahead of a SoHo office recovery, and the coverage does not say when that lease rolls.
Self-storage securitization is a two-sponsor credit at the top
The $24.02 billion sector is dispersed by property and concentrated by borrower, and the two largest names also account for most of the below-8% debt yield and the maturity wall.
Kennedy Wilson's $175M DC start shows who still gets construction debt
Three named sponsors and a MetLife-advised separate account on the equity line made this 14-story infill start financeable, which is a narrower market than the headline suggests.
New York Life's $386M refi underwrites Havas, not Midtown East
The three-year floating-rate loan clears on a tenant commitment, which says more about where office debt prices than any recovery narrative does.
GoldenTree’s $482.5M Steamboat loan is a residence absorption bet
The $482.5 million financing leans on the 95 private residences at Steamboat Resort, putting the sales cycle at the center of the credit.
C-PACE's ground-lease edge is a claim that outlives the lease
The running-with-the-land assessment answers the senior lender's collateral problem; the price is a fee-owner consent that runs on its own clock and counsel.
Private credit's 8.6% share holds because banks are not bidding
BridgeInvest's Alex Horn calls private real estate credit permanent infrastructure. The servicing line, not the origination share, will decide whether the label survives.
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Gantry's $9M life loan shows where the office bid actually sits
A three-year insurer takeout of conduit debt on a 100%-leased Temecula medical office shows the bid: performing rent rolls, short horizons, no fresh marks.
Inland's $44 million bridge book is three refinancings and one purchase
The small-balance non-recourse lender is getting paid to hold conversion and refinancing risk that bigger books are walking away from.
Onni's Seattle towers get $41.7M to keep waiting
The new loan covers a little over half a land basis set in 2018 on a $358 million project with no permits, which tells you what TD is actually underwriting.
Dwight's College Station cash-out refi marks the apartment market without a sale
Partin takes $42 million out of a 288-unit property a mile from Texas A&M, leaving the market's freshest apartment price in a private loan file.
Student housing's $1.25 billion problem is a clock, not a default wave
Trepp's data locates the sector's unresolved credit in 20 sub-breakeven CRE CLO properties, while the CMBS loans that were going to default have already done so.
Trademark breaks ground on a Whole Foods-anchored center, lender unnamed
Fourteen committed tenants are doing the work a disclosed loan amount would normally do in a ground-up retail start.
A $54 million loan prices senior housing as a service business
Four capital providers closed construction debt for a 175-unit independent living project whose demand case rests on a master-planned neighbor still roughly 300 homes from build-out.
Bow River's Fannie loan is all coupon, no amortization
Five years of interest-only Fannie Mae debt pushes the entire $53.9 million to a 2031 refinance, which is where this trade actually gets decided.
Sixth Street and Lloyds put U.K. property debt on an ABF desk
The agreement names an asset-based finance platform as the lending vehicle and the real estate team as support, which tells you these loans will be priced off buildings rather than borrowers.
Corebridge Takes Out FIU Student Housing and Hands Back Cash
The $180 million refinancing retires construction debt and returns equity on a tower whose real collateral is one university's enrollment.
BridgeInvest funds the lease-up on an office it cannot control
A $114.3 million refinancing puts private debt behind the leasing of RIVANI's Lincoln Road building, on a basis that only works if the sponsor keeps signing tenants.
Corebridge's $180M takeout prices FIU's enrollment, not the building
A 98-percent-leased 2024 delivery takes a permanent loan with cash returned to the sponsors, and that combination is what this debt market is rewarding.
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Nuveen buys a state template, not a spread
The $23.2 million close is New Hampshire's first C-PACE deal, and the precedent it sets for the next 381 units is the part that matters.
BREIT takes $105 million out of a fully leased industrial book
The $1.71 billion CMBS loan turns a stabilized 19-million-square-foot portfolio into funding for the data center rotation, and the extension options stay with the sponsor.
A $3.7B book in two years buys 13,000 more square feet
Ascent's two-year originations pace says the smaller-balance construction and bridge gap is where private real estate credit is clearing outside bank balance sheets.
Avila's $390M raise fills the gap regional banks left in lot credit
Insurers and endowments are now financing raw-land and lot credit, where the take-down carries the risk.
The long end now sets the price of CRE debt
A 10-year stuck near 5% turns every 2026-27 extension into an equity-sizing question rather than a coupon question.
Multifamily's maturity wall is now a sponsor-equity test
Three years carry $757 billion of a $1.8 trillion decade, and the Fed's quarter-point turns a refinancing gap into a capital call.
A $5 million shell underwrites a $113 million conversion
A 2028 delivery date and a $5 million acquisition basis clear the Magnificent Mile conversion, with 37 percent equity carrying the construction term.
Student housing's refinance risk is a 2029 problem
Most of the $5.29 billion of sub-8% debt-yield paper matures in 2029 and 2030, straight into a declining enrollment curve.
Chicago's largest conversion is a $15,600-a-unit land trade
The $5 million purchase price is what makes the $113 million raise at 500 North Michigan Avenue pencil.
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Corebridge writes $293 million on a fully leased Meatpacking building
The refinancing shows where insurance capital will still term out 2019-vintage Manhattan office — and leaves the rest of the wall unanswered.
DeKalb refi leans on the 3M signature
At 55% leverage, the lender is underwriting 3M's credit, and the next 3M-leased DeKalb refinance will show whether the entire group prices that way.
Edgewood takes out a Fort Lauderdale condo sell-out
A $27.9 million private takeout clears Latitude's construction debt, leaving the unsold 40 percent of a 22-unit tower carrying the loan.
FedEx's footprint cut reprices $837M of industrial CMBS
FedEx's shrinking footprint turns $837 million of single-tenant warehouse debt into a public test of what re-leasing optionality is actually worth.
Corebridge's $293M refi shows office credit clearing only on leased income
A fully leased Meatpacking building clears fixed-rate permanent debt at roughly $1,843 a square foot, the bar the rest of the office refinancing queue has to beat.