Real Estate Partners
Real Estate Venture Finance
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Helping talented mid-size operators scale towards institutional exit
Helping large investors build pipeline in sectors with attractive prospects
We set up MARC recognising unmet demand from institutions for quality, mid-size real asset investment opportunities; and an equal demand from mid-size real estate operators for advice and access to funding to take their businesses to the next level and ultimately to institutional exit.
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MARC matches these operators with investors
Sectors
We focus on sectors supported by long term macro trends, with established institutional investor demand, and where we have access to sub-institutional scale SME operators.
Hospitality
Powered land
Self storage
Institutional residential
Services
Managers & Operators
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Strategy development
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Fund raise from institutions and family offices
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Prepare for institutional exit
Work with operator partners we believe in to understand their business and personal aspirations; to develop a realistic growth strategy; and raise funding to execute that strategy; prior to coordinating an exit.
Growth Equity Investors
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Market insight
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Access to well qualified operators
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Deliverable pipeline
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Work with investors to understand their sector focus, risk appetite and decision making process. We then present qualified investment opportunities, with track record in a target sector, and credible growth plans; and map out strategies to execute.
Strategic Development & Regeneration
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Identify regen opportunities
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Establish stakeholders' mutual benefit
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Match funding
​Work discreetly with long term holders of large, town centre assets with regeneration potential; we coordinate professionals to establish viability, planning and political risks; then dial in patient capital towards a mutually beneficial, deliverable scheme.
Meet the Team
Advisory Board
Charlie and Max draw on the collective knowledge of a group of non-execs comprising highly experienced and well regarded figures from across real estate, to be a critical friend and help provide access and insight.
Stephen Barter - NED
A visionary, Stephen collaborated with Argent to secure University of the Arts London as anchor tenant at Kings Cross Central, laying the foundation of London’s most successful and vibrant new centre.Until recently, he was Chairman of KPMG’s Real Estate Advisory practice. He has over 40 years’ experience in real estate during which he has held a number of senior leadership roles as investor, developer, fund manager and consultant. Prior to KPMG, he was UK CEO of Qatari Diar, Group Projects Director at Grosvenor, Head of European Real Estate for a leading international investment bank and an equity partner at Richard Ellis (now CBRE). He has served on the UK Prime Minister’s Property Consultative Committee, was for 11 years a non-exec member of the UK Ministry of Defence Estates Committee and for 17 years a member of the Bank of England Property Forum. He is a former UK Chairman of the Urban Land Institute.
Case study
Central London Hotel Platform
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Strategy underpinned by a robust London tourism market benefitting from a growing and increasingly mobile global middle class
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Identified established, successful operator of specialist tourism hotels near key transport nodes managing 400 keys across 15 properties
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Developing strategy to build pipeline towards a £200m portfolio with the platform benefits and economies of a long established operator
