LinkedIn Post - 2025 Year End

2025 marks the first full year of CREFi operating in the market. As the year draws to a close, I want to thank the ‘early adopter’ clients who backed the platform and worked so actively with us to shape its direction.

I am exceptionally proud of our big milestones this year which include:

➤ Delivered a granular loan-level dataset for the UK commercial real estate debt market, bringing structure to a historically opaque segment

➤ Identified £140bn of secured lending mapped directly to underlying assets

➤ Deployed our Sponsor Intelligence Overview, bringing together corporate hierarchies, SPVs, assets, and debts into one clear, connected view

➤ Secured leading lenders, advisers, valuers, law firms and servicers as clients

The motivation behind CREFi has always been straightforward. Better information leads to better decisions, and markets function more effectively when opacity is reduced.

Our clients have been demanding, thoughtful and willing to challenge assumptions. We are so grateful for their collaboration which materially shapes the platform - please keep challenging us to do more.

We look forward to expanding our continental Europe dataset in 2026, applying the same discipline to build loan-level coverage alongside our UK platform.

Many thanks to the senior team who help me drive CREFi forward, particularly Josue Calvo, my technical leader and Emma Huepfl, our experienced Senior Advisor.

Wishing you all a restful festive break and a strong start to the year ahead.
Tom.