UK Leeds Portfolio Gap Financing
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About The Speakers
Victor Chin | Associate, Investment Management of RealVantage
Victor completed his undergraduate studies in 2021 at the National University of Singapore and holds a Second-Class (Upper) Hons Bachelor’s degree in Real Estate. During his two years at CBRE Valuations and Advisory and CBRE APAC Hotels Capital Markets, he completed over 50 valuations and advisory assignments across commercial, industrial, and hospitality assets in Singapore, Maldives, and other countries within the Asia-Pacific region
Samuel Low | Director - User Engagement of RealVantage
Samuel has over 10 years of experience in Finance, ranging from roles in wealth management, securities and derivatives dealing in banks. He moved on to focusing on private debt in South East Asia in a prior fintech role before RealVantage where he drives user engagement.
Richard Croft | Chief Executive of Martley Capital
Richard Croft is the Chief Executive of Martley, responsible for the company’s strategic direction and capital raising and leads the real estate fund management function.
In addition to his duties at Martley Capital Group, Richard is Senior Adviser to M7 Real Estate. In this capacity, he sits on the GP board and investment committees of all M7’s funds in addition to numerous other M7 JV boards.
Past industry activities include founding M7 Real Estate in 2009 which was sold to Oxford Properties, a leading global real estate investor, asset manager and business builder in 2021. At the time of the sale, M7 employed over 220 people across 13 countries, with over 569 assets and €4.3bn of assets under management.
Prior to M7, Richard founded Halverton REIM LLP (subsequently GPT Halverton), a European real estate fund management business which was sold to The GPT Group in July 2007. At the time of the sale, the company employed circa 180 people across 10 European offices and managed over €2bn of assets.
Before his time at Halverton, Richard was the International Investment Director of The IO Group Ltd, Property Fund Management PLC (now Cromwell), responsible for setting up their international infrastructure. He has been involved in over €15bn of transactions across the UK and Europe during his 30+ years of real estate experience.
In 2022 Richard won the Property Week Personality of the Year award, whilst M7 was awarded the prestigious Irvine Sellar Award and the PROPS Awards Deal of the Year.
Eloise Turton | Executive Managing Director, Investor Relations of Martley Capital
Eloise Turton is an Executive Managing Director at Martley Capital Group. She oversees Investor Relations, including the management of existing investors, the onboarding of new investors, as well as marketing and capital raising for new Martley Funds.
Based in London, she joins from M7 Real Estate.
Prior to joining the Investor Relations team at M7, she worked in the firm’s Investment Management team on the UK and Listed Funds. Before this, she was an Associate at Savills in the Valuation Department in the Margaret Street office, with a focus on commercial and mixed-use investment and development valuations for a number of lender, developer, HNW and institutional clients.
She graduated from the Royal Agricultural University with a BSc (Hons) in Real Estate and is a Chartered Member of the RICS (MRICS).
Dan Boakes | Managing Director, Debt Capital Markets of Martley Capital
Dan Boakes is Managing Director of Debt Capital Markets at Martley Capital Group. He oversees the commercial real estate debt strategies across the group including the origination and execution of loans for TREC II and IKEN Loan Servicing.
Based in London, Dan joins from M7 Real Estate where he was Director of Debt Capital Markets for six years. Dan’s past experience includes primary and special commercial loan servicing of large loan portfolios across Europe and commercial asset and property management.
Prior to M7 Real Estate, Dan held the position of co-Head of European Commercial Servicing at Situs where he was responsible for the management of commercial real estate loan portfolios totalling approximately €40 billion across Europe.
Before Situs, Dan held the role of Head of European Commercial Loan Servicing at Deutsche Bank overseeing the Primary and Special Servicing of €18 billion of commercial real estate loans across Europe. Before joining Deutsche Bank, he spent four years at Morgan Stanley.
Dan graduated from Oxford Brookes University with a BSc in Urban Estate Management. He is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and has more than 24 years’ of commercial real estate experience.
Tom Tunley | Director, Debt Capital Markets of Martley Capital
Tom Tunley is a Director for Debt Capital Markets at Martley Capital Group. He oversees the origination, deal execution and underwriting for all UK and European debt investments.
Tom is responsible for the day-to-day management of existing debt funds at Martley and plays a key role in the growth of the TREC series of funds. Prior to joining MCG & M7, Tom worked in the European CRE Debt industry specialising in distressed real estate and non-performing loans. During his time as an Associate at Morgan Stanley and Mount Street Loan Solutions LLP, Tom worked in the Special Projects and Special Servicing teams where he worked on over €15bn of commercial real estate debt across Europe.
Tom has significant experience in CRE underwriting and CRE Lending through all market cycles previously working on large portfolios up to £500m to smaller sub £20m loans where TREC II operates today. Whilst at both Morgan Stanley and Mount Street Tom worked on a multitude of CMBS/CLO transactions across Europe, he was involved in the rating, issuance and ongoing management of these structures over a number of years, giving a depth of knowledge which supports his strong CRE capital markets background.
Tom graduated from Kingston University reading Commercial Real Estate Investment and was awarded Master of Science with Commendation. He has over 10 years’ experience in Commercial Real Estate Finance.
About RealVantage
RealVantage is a leading real estate co-investment platform, licensed and regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), that allows our investors to diversify across markets, overseas properties, sectors and investment strategies.
The team at RealVantage are highly qualified professionals who brings about a multi-disciplinary vision and approach in their respective fields towards business development, management, and client satisfaction. The team is led by distinguished Board of Advisors and advisory committee who provide cross-functional and multi-disciplinary expertise to the RealVantage team ranging from real estate, corporate finance, technology, venture capital, and startups growth. The team's philosophy, core values, and technological edge help clients build a diversified and high-performing real estate investment portfolio.
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