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The retrofit revolution: how retrofitting will contribute to a more sustainable built environment

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...

04/06/24

Why MMC has a vital role to play in delivering a sustainable built environment

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...

13/05/24

How bridge loans can help create a more sustainable real estate sector

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...

03/04/24

Mitigating contractor insolvency risk when funding modular construction schemes

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,...

27/02/24

Precede Capital and QuadReal provide £105m financing to fund BTR development in West London

Precede Capital Partners, the B Corp certified real estate development lending platform, and QuadReal Property Group, a global real estate investment, operating and development company headquartered in British Columbia, today announce that they have provided a £105.2 million three-year whole-loan...

21/02/24

Building with B Corp: How B Corp can help deliver a sustainable real estate sector

There are 1,500 UK-headquartered businesses with B Corp certification. Yet less than 40 of these operate in the real estate sector. Worldwide, the food and drink industry is the front-runner, followed by the IT software and services sector in second place. When Precede Capital Partners launched...

21/12/23

Bridging the gap: how real estate non-bank lenders adapt to shifting markets

2023 has been a challenging year for financial markets – and lenders have had to adapt at pace. By March, three major US banks had collapsed, sending markets into turmoil. The European banking sector was only spared the same scenario by UBS’s eleventh-hour take-over of Credit Suisse. In the UK,...

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