HALF-YEAR UPDATE 2026
Dear Clients,
Welcome to CREFi's H1 update and thank you to our clients for your ongoing feedback and support. H1 2026 has seen strong client growth and substantial enhancement of our European commercial real estate debt intelligence platform.
H1 2026 Highlights
Credit Health Flags launched
Our Credit Health Flags indicate SPVs linked to insolvency and credit stress events, giving special situations investors and advisors actionable intelligence on potential restructuring requirements.
Credit Health Flags adds distress and credit monitoring intelligence to the CREFi platform. Incorporating insolvency and restructuring events published through UK Gazette, the UK's official public record for corporate insolvency and creditor-related notices, it enables users to identify loans and borrowing entities linked to winding-up petitions, administrator appointments, receiverships and other indicators of financial stress.
Additional late filing and financial reporting indicators help users identify potential signs of deterioration in credit quality. This functionality has proven particularly valuable for clients involved in special situations investing, restructuring and advisory assignments.
Featured in the Financial Times
CREFi data was used in the FT's reporting on the refinancing of MFS-related entities, highlighting the value of independent loan-level intelligence and CREFi's role in assisting risk monitoring teams.
CREFi data was featured in the Financial Times as part of its coverage of refinancing arrangements associated with the ongoing administration of MFS-related entities. The article generated discussions with lending and risk management teams regarding the importance of independently validating borrower, security and loan information within managed credit portfolios, and highlighted the need for tools capable of mapping complex borrower structures, identifying overlapping security interests and improving portfolio transparency.
Featured by PERE Credit
PERE Credit used CREFi data to track structural changes across lending markets, examining market velocity over 15 years and revealing that the number of significant UK CRE lenders has increased more than four-fold over the period.
We were delighted to collaborate with PERE Credit, which featured CREFi data in an article leveraging our aggregated analytics to examine structural changes within the UK commercial real estate lending market. Using loan-level data spanning more than fifteen years, the analysis provided a new lens on market velocity and highlighted the significant expansion of alternative and private capital sources. One notable finding was that the number of lenders qualifying as "significant lenders" within the mainstream UK CRE market — defined as originating more than eight loans per annum and focussing on loans >£5m — has increased more than four-fold over the period.
Read the PERE Credit article →
Behind the scenes, we continue to expand and enhance the underlying dataset. CREFi now covers more than £140 billion of UK commercial real estate debt and over €100 billion of continental European lending, secured against more than 800,000 charged property titles.
Close collaboration with organisations using CREFi for business development, market intelligence and risk management continues to shape our product priorities. Recent enhancements include workflow and productivity tools designed to integrate CREFi seamlessly into day-to-day decision making.
Our ambition remains unchanged: to build the definitive data and intelligence platform for European real estate credit markets. We believe greater transparency and reliable information leads to better decisions, stronger risk management and more efficient market function.
Plans for H2 2026
Increased European market coverage
Enhanced analytics and benchmarking
Search and discovery enhancements
Workflow integrations and productivity tools
To see these new features in action, contact us to arrange a demonstration.
Notes on the CREFi Platform
CREFi was founded by Tom Slator, formerly Head of Data & Insights at Savills.
CREFi has processed and structured more than 100 million public registry records to create the UK's first loan-level commercial real estate debt intelligence platform. Combining information from land registries, charge registers, company filings and other public sources, CREFi enables users to analyse lending activity, borrower relationships, refinancing risk and market trends at a level of detail previously unavailable within the market.
The platform does not rely on confidential borrower or lender disclosures, providing a transparent and independently verifiable view of commercial real estate debt markets across the United Kingdom and Europe.
Kind regards,
Tom Slator | CEO & Founder