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The fund will focus on projects in Germany and other countries in Western Europe with a comparable regulatory system and seek to generate net returns of at about 4%, although returns can reach up to at least 8% through investment in a sub-fund involving more leverage. Agloria and Universal Investment are looking to avoid projects that ‘frequently miss the forecasted results’.

Johnny Horgan, the managing director of BidX1, a property trading platform, explains how the rise of a digital marketplace is a value-add to investors and managers.

Randeesh Sandhu, chief executive of residential development lender Urban Exposure, argues that the UK government and the real estate industry must work together to tackle the undersupply of housing.

With New York home to several global banks, it is easy to forget the diversity within the US banking landscape. In real estate finance, Wall Street giants might write the biggest loans, but regional, state-focused and city-specific community banks are more active in certain areas of the market, including the financing of construction. The largest […]

James Macdonald, head of China research at Savills, explains why the country’s developers will increasingly turn to international lenders for finance.