Colliers has bought Cap Real Estate, a leading UK real estate funding group, as it beefs up its national Capital Markets offering, CoStar News can reveal.
Cap Real Estate is a real estate funding advisory business, specialising in alternative sectors, debt advisory and restructuring.
Robert Nelson, Jeremy Toone, Niall Crowley and William Jeens will join Colliers’ UK National Capital Markets team as directors. Colliers said the team will provide clients with a "holistic advisory service across the funding lifecycle from initial raises to exit strategies". The team has raised over £1.2 billion of funding for clients since it set up in 2018.
John Knowles, head of National Capital Markets at Colliers, said that with the addition of the team, Colliers is answering the increasing demand it is seeing from clients for "creative thinking on funding, particularly in the alternative sectors".
"The current economic backdrop has meant that a certain level of thinking outside of the box is necessary when it comes to creating and implementing strategies and long-term planning. Not only will the team be a valuable addition to our National Capital Markets team, but to our business as a whole.”
Robert Nelson added: “By joining Colliers we will be able to help our clients with their needs beyond the transactional, capitalising on the firm’s diversity, resource, and scale. We are looking forward to getting to know the wider business in the coming months and working alongside them to provide the best opportunities and advice to our collective clients.”
Tony Horrell, CEO of Colliers UK & Ireland, said that bringing CapRE on board is a "continuation of our ongoing strategy to build scale with experts who share our culture of collaboration, entrepreneurship and a drive to provide our clients with the best service".
Colliers’ National Capital Markets team has seen major expansion over the last two years, with specialisms in debt advisory, operational real estate and research and analytics added, alongside its track record in the more traditional sectors.
Cap Real Estate advises across the UK and Ireland with three areas of focus - alternative sectors, debt advisory and restructuring advisory.