Alternative Assets

Investors are increasingly looking beyond traditional real estate asset classes and turning to the alternative real estate sector.

Our real estate team are known for having in-depth knowledge and specialist expertise across a broad range of these alternative asset classes, including:

Hotels and leisure
Care homes and retirement living
Build-to-rent/private rented sector
Infrastructure
Student accommodation
Self-storage.

With demand for alternative real estate assets at a record high, we help investors diversify assets and maximise their returns.

Substantive experience in the care home sector as regular advisers to Cinnamon Care Capital, Quercus Healthcare, Impact Healthcare REIT and Patron Capital, including the acquisition of 56 care home portfolio for Impact and on Patron Capital's sale of the Gracewell portfolio to Welltower.
Westrock on the acquisition of PRS development sites in Cardiff, Crawley and Sheffield and the forward sale to Invesco of a PRS scheme in Exeter.
Local Pensions Partnership in connection with its joint venture with Grainger for a PRS scheme at Pontoon Dock.
Amcorp on numerous joint ventures in respect of super prime value residential developments including PRS.
Peel Ports on the sale of its 25% stake in Liverpool John Lennon airport.

Several infrastructure funds including Macquarie, Ancala, Basalt and Arjun on the acquisition and financing of a diverse range of energy and infrastructure assets, including solar farms, ferry terminals, anaerobic digestion plants and coal mine methane facilities in the UK.
Ancala Partners on the acquisition of South Downs Capital Limited (parent company of Portsmouth Water Limited).
Safestore Holdings plc on the expansion of its portfolio through the acquisition of other storage companies.
AJ Capital Partners on its acquisition of the DoubleTree Hilton Hotel in Cambridge.