Astarte Capital Partners launches £400m London real estate fund

Astarte Capital Partners has established a £400 million ($524 million) investment platform with a focus on transforming prime infill and edge-of-prime real estate into institutional-quality future core assets, predominantly across Greater London.

This new platform will initially create a closed-end structure of £400 million, deployed across eight to 10 investment opportunities in the hospitality, entertainment, healthcare and education sectors that have the potential to be developed and/or re-positioned as core real estate assets. Astarte Special Opportunities Platform, the firm’s discretionary co-investment vehicle, is leading the investment in the new platform and providing the model for its structure.

Through ASOP, Astarte invests in real assets by forming partnerships with specialist asset operators, providing seed capital for portfolio acquisition alongside third-party investors and supplying working capital for the organization and operation of the partnershi