SANTÉ Realty Investments completes $570m raise for Ground Lease Fund

SANTÉ Realty Investments announced the completion of a $570 million capital formation for its Ground Lease Fund. The funding was procured through investment-bank advisor Global Impact Assets.

“With our firm’s focus on ESG and socially responsible investing, we selected Global Impact Assets as our investment bank advisor due to their long history of successfully sourcing ‘right fit’ capital for real assets like our U.S. ground leases,” said Jim Small, CEO of SANTÉ Realty Investments.

Sale-Leaseback financing in the form of ground leases has become an important financing option for real estate investors around the country. Separation of the building from the ground, which is then leased back to the building owner, provides greater capital efficiency and ultimately a greater financial return for the building owner. Since the ground lease is guaranteed by the building, ground-lease investments are extremely attractive to institutional investors seeking core rea