Brickvest in partnership with Venn Partners has launched its first commercial real estate debt investment opportunity. Brickvest is an online real estate platform. This is an area that allows investment in institutional grade investment opportunities. This platform also allows investors to actively manage their investment portfolio. Venn Partners was founded in2009 and is a management system that focuses on prime asset-backed direct lending.
This scheme with Venn is the first real estate debt product that will be available on the BrickVest site. As a result of the new launce, BrickVest will be able to be the single point of access when dealing with institutional-grade real estate investments.
This opportunity with Venn Partners will allow BrickVest users to get at direct lending opportunities form within the European commercial real estate market. Paul House, the leader of the Venn Partners commercial real estate group. House has also been Head of Citigroup’s Real Estate EMEA business. Since the start of the operation in 2013, the team has originated more than €1.5 billion in loans.
Being the first commercial real estate debt product available on BrickVest, this new partnership will allow the platform to expand and open up more options for the company. BrickVest users will be able to invest in commercial real estate opportunities through an easy to access online trading platform. Investments can start from a low minimum amount and provides an opportunity that previously was only open to larger institutions. These larger institutions that were able to invest before includes pension funds and insurance companies.
The basis of the investment strategy is value-add loans within the mid-market. This practice allows for a strong borrower demand while also allowing investors to create attractive risk adjusted returns.
Investing in the UK commercial real estate sector remains attractive despite a cloudy economic future. Exposure to the BrickVest platform allows investors to diversify with other fixed income assets.
