HGP

We recently celebrated our development partner Durkan, who won four awards at the WhatHouse? Awards.   This included a Bronze Award for the ‘Best Starter Home’ category for our joint scheme at Hatfield East, where HGP provided £4.3 million in equity to support its delivery.   The site is a modern collection of 87 one- and two-bedroom apartments and two-, three- and four-bedroom homes, conveniently located near to Hatfield train station, Hatfield House and the bustling town centre.   Durkan’s other wins included ‘Best Apartment Scheme’ (Silver Award), Best Exterior Design (Silver Award) and Best Development (Bronze Award).   Congratulations to Durkan on this great achievement!

We have joined forces with the Development Bank of Wales to invest more than £14 million into Edwards Homes’ delivery of a residential development in Connah’s Quay, North Wales.   Located on the western edge of the town, the new development will comprise of 141 two-, three- and four-bed homes for sale, including 49 affordable homes that will be sold to North Wales Housing Association.   Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/e-SeSCyS

Last Thursday was our 2024 Women in Property Midlands Annual Dinner at The Grand Hotel Birmingham. My third time attending this event and 2nd as a committee member and as always it did not disappoint! ✨ A big thank you to everyone who joined us and made the evening so enjoyable. Some highlights of the evening for me were hearing our guest speaker Eleanor Deeley share her inspirational story about how she has thrived in the property industry, despite the challenges she’s faced, catching up with our student awards finalists Annie Lattimore and Grace Tunnicliffe and raising over £5,000 for the amazing Midlands Air Ambulance Charity 👏🏻 Thank you to our main event sponsor Marrons for the continued support and to Lambert Smith Hampton for sponsoring the drinks reception. Well done to our fabulous chair and vice-chair Jenny Wilkes MRICS and Kezia Smart MRICS for all your hard work organising such a wonderful evening! I feel so grateful to be part of such a welcoming and inclusive community. Please feel free to reach out to me or any of my fellow committee members if you have any questions about Women in Property. Jenny Wilkes MRICS Kezia Smart MRICS Hannah Floyd Hannah Deverell Sophie Smith Charlotte Bayliss (nee Bloomfield) Emma Foster Janet Rowley Katie Gregory Anne-Marie Eden Rebecca Humes Chontell Buchanan

We are committed in our mission to support the growth of developers and housebuilders that are building homes and improving communities across the country.   Today we are launching HGP’s new brand identity, including a new website, which better reflects our growth since we were set up in 2016 as a small joint venture between Lloyds Banking Group and Homes England.   HGP has evolved significantly in this time, becoming a meaningful enabler of housing creation across all Living sectors for developers of all sizes. Our new brand better communicates our purpose, which is to provide funding partnerships that enable and accelerate the delivery of new homes across the UK Living sectors.   Join us in this exciting new chapter and visit our new website, here: https://lnkd.in/d6_gkZV

We recently formed a £150 million joint venture with PLATFORM_ to deliver 451-apartments at the Sweet Street Build to Rent scheme in Leeds.   It represents the first phase of PLATFORM_’s transformative 1.3 million sq ft mixed-use development on Sweet Street, in the South Bank regeneration area of Leeds.   Scheduled for completion at the start of 2027, the previously vacant site will become a thriving mixed-use community, featuring a mix of studio, one, two, and three-bedroom apartments, complemented by extensive amenities including a gym, residents’ lounges, co-working spaces, extensive roof terraces and curated green spaces.   This deal is an excellent example of how HGP’s unique equity funding model can contribute to significant regeneration schemes, creating homes and amenities in the areas which need them most.   Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/eW5wmXjm   #BuildToRent #SweetStreetLeeds #EquityFunding   Winvic Construction Ltd PLATFORM_

We have appointed Alex Maltby as Investment Director, with responsibility for our investments in the South West. Alex will oversee the opening of HGP’s first office in the region, in Bristol, and will lead the team responsible for growing HGP’s footprint across both the SME for-sale and Living sectors. He brings more than 15 years of residential real estate investment and funding experience to the role, in both debt and equity.   Welcome to the team, Alex!   You can read the full story and find out more about Alex’s role here: https://lnkd.in/e5BhPVe2   #Appointments #InvestmentDirector #SouthWest #Bristol

This week we're celebrating Homes for Scotland’s SME Awareness Week, running from 19th-23rd August.🎉 We have been supporting our SME development partners across Scotland with access to equity, including Whiteburn, Briar Homes Limited (Scotland) and Cruden Group. They form part of our HGP Regional Growth Initiative (RGI), which offers access to a pot of institutional equity to fund multi-site growth plans, allowing SME developers to free up their own equity to invest into their growing businesses. The current environment is challenging for SMEs in Scotland with housing shortages across the country causing many local authorities, such as Edinburgh, Glasgow and Fife declaring housing emergencies. SME’s play a critical role in increasing the supply of homes across the country, tackling the housing crisis and bringing brownfield sites back into use. HGP plays a crucial role in assisting and accelerating the delivery of these developments by supporting SMEs in Scotland. SME builders are vital for the Scottish economy with 3.5 jobs supported for every home built. We are committed to helping SMEs grow. Our unique investment approach shares both risk and reward with our partners. See some of our partner sites below and find out more about the impact we’ve already made here: https://lnkd.in/ePwcnHnE #SMEBuilders #HFS #DeliveringMore #Brownfield #RuralHousing #WhiteburnHQ #BriarHomesLimitedScotland #CrudenGroup

Watkin Jones Group and Housing Growth Partnership JV to deliver Stratford PBSA: https://lnkd.in/e-UDFTbD cc George Dyer, Colin Bennett and Lloyds Banking Group #pbsanews #pbsa #jointventure #residential #studentaccommodation #builtenvironment #london #stratford

🏡 New student homes alert 🏡   Our latest joint venture, with Watkin Jones Group, the UK’s leading developer and manager of residential for rent, will see the delivery of 397 much needed, purpose built student homes in Stratford, London and continues our diversification into new Living tenures.   Targeting a 'BREEAM Excellent' certification, the £120m GDV scheme will cater for the nearly 14,000 students studying in the local area, whilst providing new outdoor spaces and amenities, along with enhancements to the public realm including additional wildlife-friendly landscaping and greenery to enhance the local surrounding. Colin Bennett, Investment Director at HGP, added: “Establishing our first joint venture with Watkin Jones, one of the UK’s leading PBSA providers, is another milestone for HGP. It also demonstrates the growing demand for our equity offering as a means to accelerate the delivery of much needed Living accommodation across the UK." Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/ePgKPtH8

HGP has been shortlisted at this year’s Insider East Midlands Property Dinner for the ‘Property Deal of the Year’ category. The nomination is for our equity JV with Olympian Homes, which will support the delivery of a 790-bed PBSA scheme at Alfreton Road in Nottingham. The scheme, which will also include 19 affordable homes and commercial space, has a GDV of £120 million. We look forward to the awards ceremony taking place in September. Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/eexvjnHg #PBSA #JV #PropertyDealOfTheYear