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The real estate finance market has undergone significant change in recent years, with increased regulation, the entrance of more categories of lenders and changes to documentation. At CMS, we understand the challenges that these changes pose for you, having acted for lenders, developers, borrowers, sponsors, hedge counterparties and others on a wide range of investment and development transactions.

We helped to create the industry standard documentation on which most deals are based, and have helped clients like you fund assets such as commercial and residential real estate, ground rent investments, hotels, healthcare assets, theatres, logistics portfolios, shopping centres, house building and supermarket developments.

As an international law firm with cross-border transactional experience, our cohesive international team is able to deliver complex trans-European property portfolio financings.

Our clients include funds, property companies, family offices, universities and UK and international banks and financial institutions, and we are experienced in acting for both senior and mezzanine lenders.

“The team are very responsive and proactive and act as an extra limb. They help us practically and with all aspects of the deals.”

Chambers UK 2022, Real Estate Finance

"They are very easy to work with, proactive and personable. We have excellent communications with them and they help matters go smoothly."

Chambers UK, 2016
Highlights of our experience in Real Estate Finance in the UK
Lenders Aareal Bank AG on the financing of the corporate acquisition by SGRF and a privately held hospitality group of a  portfolio of hotels across Germany, France, Spain, Luxembourg and Switzer­land. Deutsche...
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CareMarkets - Ethical Practices Investing in ESG
This item first appeared in CareMarkets, February 2019. Mike Delaney writes an article on "Ethical Practices Investing in ESG"
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CMS UK launches Brexit checklists
With only a month to go until the referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU, the political debate is intensifying as both the remain and leave groups put forward their cases. Today, we are launching...
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Nabarro acts for Ask Real Estate on Bauer Millett acquisition
This article was produced by Nabarro LLP, which joined CMS on 1 May 2017. Nabarro has acted for Ask Real Estate on its acquisition of the Bauer Millett site in central Manchester, its first new project...
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GPE exchanges contracts on two central London deals with Deka Immobilien...
This article was produced by Nabarro LLP, which joined CMS on 1 May 2017. Nabarro has advised Great Portland Estates (GPE) on the simultaneous exchange of contracts on two separate central London deals...