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New Report: The Inheritance Tax (IHT) landscape today Against a backdrop of recent rises in asset values, higher volumes of wealth transfers during the Covid-19 pandemic, and a frozen nil-rate band until at least April 2028, more and more families are slipping into the IHT net. How could Business-Relief qualifying investments help investors and advisers … Read more
If you’re attending the DealCatalyst UK Mortgage Event on 12th September, be sure to catch our very own Theo Theodosiadis on the 2.20pm panel discussing The Future of Bridge Financing and Development Loans in the UK.
The depth of real estate markets goes significantly beyond mainstream conceptions of CRE. More nascent sectors (that in our opinion have long offered better value) have started to attract investor attention due to robust NOI performance and continuing growth potential. PBSA is one such sector – one out of the 26 distinct sub-sectors we actively … Read more
The latest office based reminder that asset valuations are relative to discount rates. We are in the process of emerging from ~15 year era of Disney-land rates and we expect more of the same in the office sector as an estimated €150bn of European CRE debt matures by 2025. Click here to read the React … Read more
Pimco’s recent report ‘Real Estate Reckoning’ talks how their outlook for commercial real estate investing largely advocates an opportunistic approach to capturing value in real estate markets. Our Opportunistic Credit strategy is a value driven investment strategy that provides capital in scenarios where market inefficiencies and/or transactional idiosyncrasies create liquidity demands that can drive enhanced … Read more
We are delighted to have been shortlisted in this year’s Growth Investor Awards by Intelligent Partnership in the category of Emerging BR Investment Manager – Unlisted. Congratulations to our team and fellow finalists! Link to the full list of finalists: growthinvestorawards.com/finalists-2023
Good to see another major institutional investor choosing opportunistic credit as the best means of addressing current real estate markets, with Franklin Templeton‘s Benefit Street Partners launching their second opportunistic debt fund. Our opportunistic credit strategy focuses on idiosyncratic real estate opportunities, such as recapitalisations, refinancing, time-crunched transactions as well as distressed and stressed scenarios. Our … Read more
Non-bank financing is offering solutions to the debt funding gap React News recently reported on the commercial real estate financing gap in Europe and how alternative lenders can play a significant role here. They reported that 2024 is shaping up to be crucial for refinancing, with industry experts projecting a debt funding gap of €51bn … Read more
The life sciences sub-sector within real estate continues to go from strength to strength, with British Land letting 48,000 sq ft of lab-enabled space to leading global life science company LGC, in what is one of the largest life sciences deals in the UK this year. At Zenzic, we believe investors should be able to … Read more
Post the COVID-19 pandemic, the importance of a high-class life science industry is self-evident. Yet the scale of the industry, and the resources required to sustain it, are perhaps still underappreciated. In our white paper, we looked at repositioning secondary office sites into life sciences assets. UBS is doing just that with this exciting development … Read more