Al Barbarino

The portfolio is spread out across the US and was sold to a number of buyers including Deutsche Bank.

The US-based alternative investment manager has acquired Trimont Real Estate Advisors to capitalise on growth in the non-bank financial services. Trimont will be combined with First City Financial Corporation, which Värde bought in 2013.

Greta Guggenheim joins TPG Real Estate Finance Trust from Ladder Capital, where she was co-founder and chief investment officer.  

The deal refinances the CMBS debt assumed by Emmes when it bought the property in November 2012 for $135 million.

The loan will back the acquisition of a 29-building office portfolio in Philadelphia, Real Estate Capital has reported.

Quadrant Real Estate Advisors' eleventh closed-ended private real estate fund will focus on core commercial real estate investments.

The Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance arm plans to syndicate a $234 million mezzanine loan for the new luxury tower at 111 West 57th St. in Manhattan.  

Apollo deploys $127.9 million in first mortgage and mezz loans

The former GE Capital team will expand the Annaly's commercial real estate originations platform.

The new commercial real estate firm has secured $1.6 billion from a subsidiary of a Japanese insurer.