Al Barbarino

The Freddie Mac loan will help to finance the Dallas-based private equity firm's $7.6 billion acquisition of the Rochester, NY-based REIT.

The loan will help to finance a major mixed-use development project in Bellevue, Washington.

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

Major debt players are clinging to real estate fundamentals and calling upon lessons learned during the last cycle as concerns begin to arise in the US debt market about a new bubble.