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What we do

Three integrated practices. One specialism.

Equiterra is a specialist corporate finance firm for hospitality and operational real estate. We act on every side of the transaction. Structuring capital for sponsors, sourcing deal flow for investors and raising commingled fund capital for general partners.

Tell us about you

What's your role in the market?

We offer a range of services for sponsors, investors and general partners. Tell us about you and we'll take you to what's most relevant.

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Capital Advisory

For project sponsorsIf you're developing, redeveloping or executing a heavy-CAPEX repositioning, we structure and place capital across every layer of your stack. Your mandate runs as a targeted process with the right institutional and private capital partners for the deal.

Sponsor Equity

Co-investment placement with institutional and private capital partners. Opportunity positioning, data room and targeted process aligned to sponsor objectives.

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JV Equity

Joint venture structuring. Promote economics, governance, capital call mechanics and exit alignment, structured for institutional underwriting.

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Preferred Equity

Priority-return solutions where senior debt capacity is constrained but the sponsor requires equity-like flexibility. Defined risk/reward profile.

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Mezzanine

Subordinated capital bridging senior debt and common equity. Development and value-add capital without diluting sponsor ownership.

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Senior Debt

Senior, stretched-senior and whole-loan facilities. Bank, debt fund and alternative lender relationships.

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Subordinate Debt

Junior tranches, structured credit and revolving facilities for portfolio recapitalisation and development pipeline funding.

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Origination

For institutional capital partnersInvestor-led. Sponsor-aware. Selective. If you're deploying institutional capital, our developer and operator network generates the value-add and opportunistic mandates that match your brief. You access deals through three vehicle types: direct, co-investment and programmatic. Tickets typically £30m+, with target returns of 15%+ IRR.

Direct

Sole capital partner on a single transaction.

Co-investment

Alongside lead investors or fund vehicles on specific deals.

Programmatic

Multi-asset deployment frameworks built around a capital partner's mandate, structured for repeat deal flow at scale.

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Trading assets with value-add angles

Stabilised hotels and operational platforms with clear paths to NOI growth, repositioning or strategic exit. Underwritten on operational upside, not basis arbitrage.

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Repositionings & CAPEX-led plays

Tired assets in resilient locations where capital and operating expertise unlock embedded value. Heavy refurbishment, brand conversion or use repositioning.

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Consented developments

Sites with planning consent, ready for capital and execution. Hotels, aparthotels, branded residences and PBSA across our target markets.

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Sponsor partnerships

Pairing developers and operators with institutional capital. Single-asset JVs, multi-asset portfolios and programmatic platforms, structured for delivery, alignment and repeat deal flow.

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Fund Capital

For general partnersIf you're a GP raising a commingled vehicle or specialist real estate strategy, we place your fund with institutional limited partners aligned to your geography, sector focus and return profile.

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Fund placement

Capital raising for sponsor-led commingled vehicles and specialist real estate strategies. Closed-ended, open-ended and programmatic structures.

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LP investor introductions

Targeted introductions to institutional limited partners (pension funds, sovereigns, insurance, asset managers), family offices and private capital allocators.

Sectors

Operational real estate. Specialist focus.

Hospitality is our core. We selectively pursue adjacent operational sectors where the same operator-investor dynamics apply.

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Hotels

Full-service, lifestyle and select-service hotels across gateway markets.

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Aparthotels

Extended-stay platforms blending hotel and residential demand drivers.

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Serviced Apartments

Operator-led platforms with steady cash yields and operational upside.

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Branded Residences

Mixed-use developments combining hotel operations with residential sell-down.

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PBSA

Purpose-built student accommodation in target university cities.

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Co-Living

Operator-backed co-living and flexible residential platforms.

Talk to us

Capital to raise. A deal to find. A structure to solve.

Contact the team info@equiterra.co.uk