Investec delivers £922mn across FY2025/26, taking three-year total to £2.48bn

Investec Bank plc (“Investec”), a leading international financial services provider, today announces that its Real Estate business completed £922 million of activity in the financial year from April 2025 to March 2026, taking total activity over the last three financial years to £2.48 billion.

During FY2025/26, Investec completed £284 million of development lending and £638 million of investment financing. Over the last three financial years, the business completed £955 million of development lending and £1.53 billion of investment financing. This reflects Investec’s continued support for clients across the market through debt capital, alongside its growing ability to deliver larger ticket sizes and support larger transactions.

By sector, activity during FY2025/26 comprised:

• £322 million across residential
• £374 million across commercial
• £226 million across student accommodation and co-living

Over the last three financial years, Investec completed:

• £755 million across residential
• £1.26 billion across commercial
• £462 million across student accommodation and co-living

The year also marked a further milestone for the business’s distribution capability, with Investec having now syndicated more than £1 billion since establishing its syndication platform. That capability has helped increase overall loan ticket sizes, enabling Investec to underwrite and deliver larger transactions for clients by combining speed of decision-making, execution certainty and flexible capital solutions. It also reflects Investec’s active role in the secondary and partner capital market, with syndication broadening the capital available to support clients.

Alongside its lending activity, Investec REALIS has continued to build momentum as Investec’s real estate equity strategy:

•  In FY2025/26, REALIS completed five transactions with a combined GDV of £140 million. 
• Since launch three years ago, REALIS has completed eight transactions totalling £285 million of GDV. 

REALIS continues to extend the breadth of Investec’s real estate platform by growing its equity capital capability alongside its established debt business.

Mark Bladon, Head of Investec Real Estate, said:

“Investec’s performance over the last financial year reflects the breadth of the platform and the benefit of remaining disciplined, flexible and client-focused through different points in the cycle. Across development lending and investment financing, the business has continued to support clients with capital solutions aligned to their strategies and the opportunities they are pursuing, while also increasing its ability to back larger transactions.

“Completing £922 million in the year and £2.48 billion over the last three financial years demonstrates continued momentum across the residential, commercial and living sectors. Syndicating more than £1 billion since establishing the platform is another important milestone, increasing Investec’s ability to support clients with larger overall loan ticket sizes and more complex transactions, while also underlining its role in the partner capital market. Alongside this, REALIS has continued to build scale as Investec’s real estate equity strategy, with five transactions completed in the last financial year and eight completed since launch.”

Recent transactions completed include a £53 million residential financing package for LRC Group to support its acquisition program; support for Hines & Chancerygate with an Oldham development loan; a £22 million loan to Greenridge Opportunities Fund for the acquisition and refurbishment of 3 Temple Quay in Bristol; an £11 million loan to Kennedy Wilson for the acquisition and repositioning of a prime South London IOS site; a £41.3 million investment loan to City & Docklands and Housing Growth Partnership to refinance North Kensington Gate, a completed build-to-rent asset in the Old Oak Common regeneration area; an £85 million loan to JRL Group and Housing Growth Partnership for a build-to-rent scheme; a £28 million loan to Hillwood for a prime Northamptonshire logistics development; and a £26 million development loan to Moorfield Group for a landmark 204-bed student accommodation scheme in Bristol.

Alongside this lending activity, Investec REALIS completed five transactions during FY2025/26: acquisitions in Brighton and Bristol alongside XLB, and three urban logistics transactions in Greenwich, Cambridge and Harlow with Wrenbridge, together representing £140 million of GDV.