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The Canadian pension investor’s expansion efforts including doubling its lending book in the coming years.

The former Torchlight Investors partner has joined the real estate debt specialist as senior managing director and co-head of capital raising.

The New York-based alternative asset manager, formerly known as Och-Ziff Capital Management, beat the target for its latest property vehicle by nearly $1bn.

The economic fallout from covid-19 has stoked fears of a liquidity crisis in US commercial property lending.

Capital providers and their managers are seeking fresh pockets of value as fundraising in the sector dips.

Last month’s real estate debt fire sales at the outset of the covid-19 outbreak in the US were just the tip of the iceberg for private real estate.

A measure to allow some borrowers to request forbearance from special servicers could hinder new loan originations, said a Real Capital Analytics executive.

With tenants now defaulting on rent payments, new regulations will play a critical role in lowering the number of casualties in the industry.

The refusal by tenants to pay rent under a covid-19 lockdown has raised the fear of creating a ‘cascading effect’ among related contractual parties.

Colony Capital’s CEO calls for lender leniency to avert a mortgage market collapse, triggering a financial crisis.