Fairway’s resi fund snaps up £70m-worth of PCL property from Grosvenor, as blue chip investors look for a safe haven
"In macro-economic terms, Covid is just about as bad as it gets," says Leconfield and Fairway Capital founder George Brooksbank. "Yet, if current conditions grant us access to some of the more rarely traded properties in London’s golden postcodes, there is enormous opportunity to add value in this historically robust market."
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