Member Article

Alternative Sources of Finance

If social housing providers are to meet the escalating need for affordable housing they must explore alternative sources of private sector funding to bridge the funding gap, following the cuts to government grants and less favourable conditions for borrowing.

High property prices and large mortgage deposits are a major contributing factor to the ever increasing need for affordable social housing as people struggle to put a roof over their heads.

Carlton & Co is currently involved in projects in the North East, where capital from pension funds will be deployed to revive development programmes and increase the level of affordable housing stock in the area.

UK pension funds contain large pools of capital, which can be successfully employed to fund affordable housing projects delivering low risk, long-term sustainable returns in place of existing investments that have been affected by low interest rates, quantitative easing and inflation.

Carlton’s mission is to assist strategic partners to create institutional grade residential investment opportunities that meet the needs of the Investors and attract long term funding to support the UK’s long term housing needs.

By thinking smarter about sources of private sector funding, Housing Associations can take advantage of pension funds’ interest in the affordable housing sector to generate a proportion of the additional £18 billion required to build 150,000 new homes by 2015.

Carlton & Co specialises in attracting Institutional investment into the UK housing sector, by working directly with Institutional investors, fund managers and investment advisors and have over 50 years combined experience in the property development and investment industry.

Through working directly with these establishments the company has gained a detailed knowledge and understanding of the investment requirements and has developed a sustainable investment and funding solution to support the delivery of large scale housing led regeneration projects.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Norm Peterson .