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Moorfield Group's Head of Origination Christopher Perera writes for PropertyEU's annual Logistics Watch on the opportunity in the self and open storage sectors: "During a cycle in which real estate is all about doing more, investors in these sectors can drive additional income through active asset management. Across both, managers who embrace flexibility can secure a premium for creativity. "As more portfolios reach investable scale and core capital comes knocking - the clearest indicator of sector sophistication - opportunities for combined mixed-use logistics, self storage and open storage sites may not be too far down the line. Investors with expertise across a variety of sub sectors are best placed to capture the storage opportunity." Moorfield Group is active in urban logistics, self-storage and open storage. We entered logistics in the early 2000s, the self-storage sector in 2020 and open storage in 2022, with our collective portfolio now standing at over £300m (GDV). Isobel Lee.

Moorfield Group will be at this week's 2024 Property Awards from Property Week, where we are delighted to have been shortlisted for UK Fund Manager of the Year.

We were delighted to see the UK welcome Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako of Japan for an official state visit this week. As island nations with major economies and longstanding monarchies, there is much that unites our two countries in a disrupted world.   Moorfield Group is privileged to have a number of Japanese institutional investors as clients, who have partnered with us across our flagship value-add series. We look forward to engaging with our existing and prospective Japanese investors to discuss investment in UK real estate.

Housing is a key feature of most General Election manifestos and is so important to fix. Here are our top 10 policy suggestions, from CIO and Co-CEO Charles Ferguson Davie, based on our experiences.

Enso, our 282-bed purpose-built student accommodation asset in Essex, has been shortlisted by the 2024 Mix Awards for the award of Project of the Year – Living Interiors. The development, which completed in summer last year, had its interiors designed by Echo Studio, which worked to a brief to create light, biophilic, and airy amenity spaces designed to encourage social interaction among the students. Enso is an environmentally low-impact scheme, and as such its interior prioritises the use of materials with strong recycled or recyclable credentials and low embodied-carbon manufacture and operational use. Moorfield Group continues to see opportunity in student housing, an undersupplied asset class offering risk-adjusted returns and long-term income streams. This true for both ground-up developments and the refurbishment of student HMOs, as we look to capitalise on growing investor appetite for buildings featuring excellent sustainability credentials. Read more about Enso here:

Meet Moorfield Group's Rohan Punia, our excellent Accounts Assistant who has been with the business since 2022. Read more below about Rohan's role at Moorfield, his thoughts on real estate, and interests outside of work. "I find the fast-paced nature of this industry invigorating and it brings out the best in me. Moreover, real estate offers promising prospects for young individuals aspiring to establish a long-standing and successful career path", he says.

“We are targeting these alternative sectors because we feel they offer inflation protection, because the leases generally reset quicker and the demand drivers are tied to inflation-linked demand itself.” Our Co-CEO and Chief Investment Officer Charles Ferguson Davie spoke to Institutional Real Estate, Inc. (IREI) to explain the rationale behind Moorfield Group's investment activity in emerging asset classes within UK real estate, including the living and storage sectors. Read the full article in IREI here:

#ICYMI Chief Legal & Corporate Development Officer Sadie Malim, who recently joined the Moorfield Group Board, wrote for Property Week on the need for the real estate industry and Government to cater to the growing number of life-time renters