This is Bridges’ fourth specialist property fund, and its largest investment vehicle to date The vehicle has attracted a range of investors, including local authority pension funds, financial institutions and foundations It will follow the same strategy of investing in emerging locations, niche sectors and value situations, delivering strong societal impact and attractive financial returns […]
Read moreBridges recently held a final close of its latest Property Alternatives Fund at £220m, our largest investment vehicle to date. The vehicle attracted a range of investors, including local authority pension funds, financial institutions and foundations. It will follow the same strategy of investing in emerging locations, niche sectors and value situations, delivering strong societal […]
Read moreFund to target niche sectors and strategic locations in latest impact investment vehicle London 16 May 2014 – Bridges Ventures (‘Bridges’) has today announced the first close of the Bridges Property Alternatives Fund, with £120m of equity already invested in the Fund from both its existing and new institutional and private investors. The firm is targeting total […]
Read moreBridges Sustainable Property Fund, managed by fund manager Bridges Ventures, has completed the acquisition of prominent Leeds retail and office scheme in central Leeds, Airedale House on Albion St, and plans to refurbish it to include a number of environmentally friendly features. Airedale House is situated in the heart of the City’s commercial district […]
Read moreA joint venture between Bridges Ventures and Chancerygate has sold The Curve, a student accommodation development in London’s Aldgate, to LaSalle Investment Management for £60.3m reflecting a yield of 6%. Bridges Sustainable Property Fund and Chancerygate jointly acquired the site south of Whitechapel High Street in 2010 to target growth in the area based on […]
Read moreBridges Sustainable Property Fund has acquired a Grade II listed building in Birmingham’s historic Jewellery Quarter. 50-54 St Paul’s Square was formerly a jewellers’ workshop, now converted into 25 office units and a ground floor restaurant. Bridges Sustainable Property Fund is currently refurbishing the site, with a focus on retaining the original features whilst incorporating […]
Read moreThe Bridges Sustainable Property Fund has joined forces with property developers Urbis to build a new, highly sustainable residential development in Bristol’s Bedminster. The project, on the site of a long-abandoned Gala Bingo venue towards the eastern end of North Street, is the latest in a growing list of positive developments for the south Bristol […]
Read moreLondon, 24th July 2013: Bridges Ventures and Evenacre have announced they will be investing around £1m to refurbish 158 Edmund Street, a Grade II-listed office building in Birmingham. Bridges Ventures – through its Bridges Sustainable Property Fund – and Evenacre acquired the property last year and the refurbishment will result in 21,331 sq ft of […]
Read moreLondon, 1 June 2012: Sustainable growth investor Bridges Ventures was named ‘Property Investor of the Year’ at the HealthInvestor Awards 2012, during a ceremony held at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel last night. The HealthInvestor Awards recognise organisations and individuals that have made an outstanding contribution to healthcare in 2011. Bridges Ventures was chosen as winner […]
Read moreBridges Ventures, the sustainable growth investor, has acquired a £4m office development at Elmbridge Court, Gloucester and has simultaneously sold part of the site to a third party. The site is located in a prominent position adjacent to the A40 between Cheltenham and Gloucester and comprises 25 self-contained office buildings providing 44,000 sq ft of […]
Read moreLondon, 1 August, 2011 – Bridges Ventures, the sustainable growth investor, and Castleoak, one of the UK’s leading healthcare developers, announced today that they have completed a £32 million first close of investment into their Healthcare Property Fund (the “Fund”). With borrowings, the Fund will have an initial investment capacity of over £50m and Bridges […]
Read moreFollowing its successful first closing in July, the CarePlaces Fund, a partnership between Bridges Ventures and Castleoak, has completed its first round of acquisitions by acquiring three sites for care homes in Basingstoke, Tewkesbury and Uckfield with a combined development value of £25m. The Basingstoke project has already completed with developments of the other sites […]
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