ING Real Estate Finance moved up three notches in this year's PropertyEU ranking of Top 30 Financiers in Europe from eighth to fifth position. The ranking was headed again this year by Royal Bank of Scotland, Eurohypo, Deutsche Pfandbriefbank (formerly Hypo Real Estate) and Anglo Irish Bank.
ING Real Estate Finance moved up three notches in this year's PropertyEU ranking of Top 30 Financiers in Europe from eighth to fifth position. The ranking was headed again this year by Royal Bank of Scotland, Eurohypo, Deutsche Pfandbriefbank (formerly Hypo Real Estate) and Anglo Irish Bank.
While ING REF saw its lending portfolio grow by EUR 5 bn in 2009, the other top four financiers all saw their loan portfolios decline in the period.
The two other leading Dutch real estate financiers, FGH Bank (part of Rabobank) and SNS Property Finance, also boosted their lending portfolios in 2008 as did the Scandinavian players SEB, DnB Nor and Handelsbanken.
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