Hugo Llewelyn
Hugo Llewelyn is managing director of Newcore Capital
InsightTime for big players to do their bit
Getting the UK property industry to deliver and measure true social impact, as a cogent part of their wider stakeholder strategies, is proving much more difficult than Property Week and Newcore had envisaged when we launched the Pro Bono Challenge at RESI last September.
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It’s time to showcase good work
Newcore Capital and Property Week are launching The Pro Bono Challenge at RESI this month.
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Development as a force for good
At Newcore, we are out twisting the arms of the wealthy and generous of Oxford and the South East to raise £3m of extra funds to regenerate a church, crèche, café, drugs outreach and community centre in one of the poorest parts of Oxford.
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Technology-first view misses the wider societal point
In the last tech boom of 1998-2000, UK property investment went out of vogue as investors flooded to risky but novel technology and internet companies, many of which had strategies that were hard to understand.
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It's time to sacrifice profits to rebalance society
Recent events have provided further evidence of the ideological and socio-economic divide that exists today in the UK.
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For profit and social impact can go hand in hand
As investors in social-infrastructure-related property, we spend a lot of time dealing with D1 use classes - education, healthcare and the like - and the conversion of religious and community-led buildings (also D1/D2) to such uses.
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Institutional investors increasingly eye up alternatives
With investment in alternatives on the rise, there are opportunities across all elements of the risk spectrum.
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Follow the white rabbit — invest in ‘virtual resistant’ real estate
An analogy of film, The Matrix, makes a good point on investment, according to Hugo Llewelyn.
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Cradle-to-grave property is a core business
“Alternative” real estate, which is gaining in popularity among UK institutional property investors, is alternative by name, but not by nature.
