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Octopus Real Estate is crowned Best Development Finance Provider of the Year 2022

Pressure is building for the UK to deliver significantly more affordable housing in the face of rising living costs and fuel poverty. Carb

Octopus Real Estate has provided a £9m loan on the redevelopment of a Grade II Listed building in Northampton town centre. The development loan – which has a 24-month term - will finance the creation of 89 new homes; 17 studio apartments, 60 one bedroom flats, and 12 two bedroom flats, all of which will be designed as New York loft-style apartments.

The theme of this year’s World Health Organisation (WHO) World Health Day on 7 April is ‘Our planet, our health’, which focuses on raising awareness of the urgent actions needed to keep humans and the planet healthy.

Octopus Real Estate has completed a £22 million loan secured on a 48-acre site with planning consent for the development of 400 new homes in Ashford, Kent.

Octopus Real Estate has announced its commitment to building new care home developments that are net zero by 2030, marking the first such pledge across the care home industry.

Octopus Real Estate has provided a £16.5m loan on a ground up development of over 120 homes on sites in Witchford, Cambridgeshire and Pershore, Worcestershire. Both sites benefit from full planning permission; the Witchford site will see 46 houses developed – 32 private 14 affordable – and the Pershore site 75 houses - 45 private and 30 affordable

Octopus Real Estate has provided an £11m loan on a ground up development of a 71-bed elderly care home in Bedhampton, Hampshire. The property is currently a cleared 1.6-acre site that benefits from full planning permission to build a new care home over three levels. The care home is designed to deliver superior levels of care in order to create the best asset in the catchment area.

Octopus Real Estate has agreed a funding partnership with Bayview Asset Management, an investment management firm focused on investments in mortgage and consumer credit, to provide two-to-five-year senior investment debt to the UK Commercial Real Estate market. It will initially commit £450 million.

Octopus Real Estate, has completed an £8.45 million loan secured on a hotel with spa and health club, golf course and various amenities.

The loan has refinanced Winslade Park and will provide additional funds to the borrower as they deliver the refurbishment and letting of further phases.

Silbury Finance (“Silbury”), the development lender backed by Oaktree Capital Management, has provided the UK Retirement Living Fund (“ReLF” or the “Fund”),which is managed by Schroders Capital and advised by Octopus Real Estate, with a £39.3 million senior loan to fund the development of a retirement village in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent.  Comprising 89 high quality for-sale homes, the scheme is a second project to be developed by the joint venture (“JV”) between ReLF and Elysian Residences (“Elysian”), the UK luxury retirement living specialists.