In this series, we ask the Precede Capital team five questions about life at Precede, their career and what motivates them. Tell us about your role at Precede, what does your day-to-day look like? I have a broad role at Precede which includes working alongside the origination team on...
This blog is the first part of our series on the Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA) and its impact on the real estate development industry. Throughout this series we’ll explore the steps that developers and lenders can take to navigate some of the challenges posed by the introduction of the BSA. In...
The ‘E’ in ESG has typically received the most airtime, while the ‘S’ has been comparatively overlooked. That is true across many sectors – but particularly applicable in the world of real estate. This is partly a function of social value being notoriously hard to measure in comparison to...
While the UK’s newly elected Labour government’s manifesto includes numerous commitments to achieving Net Zero by the midpoint of this century, the inconvenient truth is that decarbonising the British economy is proving to be exceptionally difficult. Around 40% of UK carbon emissions are linked...
Last month, my colleague Boris Rumak wrote how mitigating the risk of contractor insolvency when funding modular construction schemes can make modern methods of construction (MMC) more commercially viable, unlocking their potential to transform the UK’s housing market. In this piece, he touched...
Late last year, my colleague David Jerrard wrote how, amid economic uncertainty, bridge lending provides much-needed financial support to developers in circumstances where the real estate asset is not yet generating income. This could be either pre-construction (providing financial support during...
Modular construction is a method of delivering new housing schemes that has attracted equal parts fascination and scepticism from real estate investors. On the one hand, the prospect of funding a scheme where the building modules are manufactured off-site in a controlled factory environment,...
