Successful financing for real estate transactions requires multi-disciplinary expertise. Our dedicated Real Estate Finance team comprises experts from our Real Estate, Banking, Tax, Planning, Construction and Restructuring teams who know each other well and work in a joined-up way.
We provide clear, pragmatic advice aligned with commercial goals. Clients value our practical market insight and up to date knowledge from transactions across many asset classes. Our team members are familiar with lender requirements and practices, so are well placed to ensure our advice and approach is tailored to the transaction goal, whether acting for borrowers or lenders.
We advise banks, insurers, credit funds, investors and developers, offering deep sector knowledge and a collaborative approach.
The firm shows a high level of detail and diligence.’
Chambers UK 2025
We work with our clients across all asset classes (including offices, industrial and logistics, retail, student accommodation, BTR, hotels) and across the full life-cycle of a loan. This includes assisting at term sheet and structuring stage, documenting and negotiating the loan and security documents, carrying out the property due diligence, reviewing and inputting onto the construction package. Follow-on assistance includes dealing with amendments and restatements, defaults/breaches, restructurings, security reviews and advice on enforcement options.
Our Services
Expert advice on all aspects of residential real estate finance.
Our expertise covers a range of residential property financing, including Build to Rent (BTR), Purpose Built Student Accommodation (PBSA), later living, and co-living as well as build for sale development.
Recent experience includes:
- Advised Investec on the £120 million financing of a 397-bed student accommodation development in Stratford, East London, for a JV between Watkin Jones plc and Housing Growth Partnership.
- Advised Canada Life Limited on a £43 million loan secured against three multi-let residential blocks in London.
- Advised the Hill Group on the large corporate revolving credit facility, the first ever Sustainability Linked Loan to a UK housebuilder.
- Advised Barings Real Estate on a loan to a Goldman Sach’s vehicle to fund the acquisition of two, PBSA assets and a development facility for a BTR project at Media City UK.
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Deep industry knowledge in financing industrial and logistics assets.
Recent experience includes:
- Advised Aver LP in connection with a £117 million development financing and subsequent refinancing of a portfolio of logistics assets.
- Advised Canada Life in connection with a term loan facility for Valor Real Estate Partners secured against a portfolio of five last mile urban logistics centres across London.
- Represented National Westminster Bank plc in a £41 million financing to Nuveen Real Estate for the acquisition of a self storage portfolio in the UK.
- Advised The Storage Team Ltd on £30 million refinancing of its storage asset portfolio.
- Advised Firethorn on a £100 million series of development financings secured on logistics assets.
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Real estate finance expertise for the commercial, hospitality and leisure sectors.
Recent experience includes:
- Advised an SPV managed by Native Land on development finance for St. Mary’s Wharf, Guildford. This is funding the development of 185 homes and 21,000 sq ft of retail space, designed to be fossil fuel free and net zero carbon in operation.
- Advised a JV on the £503 million acquisition and development financing of Bankside Yards, London SE1.
- Acted for specialist lender as lead counsel on the £65 million financing of The Mailbox, a mixed-use asset in Birmingham.
- Advised Barings Real Estate £65m facility to TPG Angelo Gordon for the redevelopment of the Grafton Centre, Cambridge.
- Advised on the £500 million refinancing of an iconic mixed-use development in Whitehall, Central London, comprising a luxury hotel and branded residences.
- Advised Bank of East Asia, Bank of China, China Construction Bank and DBS as arrangers and joint sustainability-linked facility advisors for a Facility to Hui Xian Investment Limited, a REIT listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange which operates a portfolio of hotels and shopping malls in the PRC.
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Expert real estate finance advice for offices and business parks.
Recent experience includes:
- Advised the owners of Arbor, a multi award winning, carbon neutral iconic office on the South Bank of the Thames, on the construction financing and its subsequent refinancing.
- Advised Barings Real Estate on a sustainably linked facility to refurbish Rembrandt Park One, Amsterdam.
- Advised Immobel Capital Partners on the financing of the first asset for Immobel’s Green Office Strategy, located at a green office campus outside Leeds.
- Acted for Bayern LB on a facility to M&G for the acquisition of an office in St James’s, London
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