Capital Markets

Debt & Structured Finance

CBRE’s property finance professionals specialise in originating, structuring and servicing debt and equity across commercial real estate sectors in New Zealand.

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We Create Real Estate Finance Solutions

With an integrated service unmatched by scale, we develop comprehensive, research-based, creative solutions to help finance commercial real estate needs for our clients. Our New Zealand finance professionals offer in-depth market knowledge and strategic advice across the spectrum of commercial property investment banking activities, including equity capital raising, debt and structured finance origination, secondary market transactions and advisory services.

Our debt and finance professionals deliver a broad and complete range of funding sources from both domestic and offshore banks and non-bank capital partners including life insurance companies, pension, sovereign wealth and investment funds. As the licensed financial services arm of CBRE, we have provided clients and businesses with complete funding solutions for more than 35 years across Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas.

Using our knowledge, expertise and research to provide advice and create strategies and solutions, we assist with the arrangement of equity and debt for real estate assets on behalf of clients and partners. Our team of finance professionals map and monitor funding market conditions across the capital stack ensuring the structure, pricing and cost of finance is optimised at all times.

Unique to our capability is an established loan services platform that provides capital management enhancements to capital issuers. Our servicing capability lets our clients get results with industry-leading loan management from inception to maturity.

Our Services

We provide expertise and guidance on securing the best available funding terms for our clients’ commercial property needs, including:

Competitive term investment funding to assist with acquisitions/refinance
Land acquisition and development/construction funding
Review existing facilities to benchmark against current market
Mezzanine, equity and family office funding solutions
Syndication
Loan servicing/post-drawdown facility management
Portfolio underwriting, review and market (submarket) research

We deal with a broad range of borrowers across property sectors including, office, retail warehousing and distribution, industrial, hospitality and residential.

Our Approach

Our services approach ensures we’re aligned with you from start to finish and our advisory capability will realise and provide clarity to an investment concept. We’ll then guide you through each phase of the transaction process:

Origination
Financial structuring
Identifying capital sources aligned with your goals
Negotiation facility agreements
Provide representation at credit committees and settlement of the funding
Post-settlement guidance and support

Post settlement, our loan services professionals will continue to manage capital, ensuring compliance and extracting maximum value until maturity. Our capabilities cover managing investment and development loans across all asset classes, with regular reporting and an active asset management approach.

Our approach is a proven process driven by industry-leading support, a highly experienced operational team, and rigorous governance, risk and compliance programs.