Our focus is to invest where we can add and create value through acquisition, planning, development and exit strategies.
APCA Group is a private equity firm undertaking direct investment, joint ventures, special situation investments and consulting within the UK real estate sector.
Equity Evolved
“Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.” Franklin D. Roosevelt
Opportunities
Decades of experience delivering residential and commercial developments
Land
Tangible land assets with development returns
Unlocking Returns
Unlocking investments returns with land backed developments
About Us
APCA Group invests its own capital, managed and third party funds directly and by working in partnership with others in the UK real estate sector, we invest where we identify strong growth opportunities or special situations which allow high levels of return.
We have a highly experienced management team with decades of experience in the UK real estate sector, fully supported by in house research capabilities, compliance, planning, design and accounting/financial modelling expertise.
The management team have a primary focus on the residential and leisure sectors but have also successfully invested in the office, retail and care sectors across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
APCA Group focuses on a small number of opportunities to ensure board level involvement and oversight of every investment, typically this approach generates 9 - 12 investments live or in the pipeline with a GDV of £250m - £400m at any one time.
“Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it.”
Benjamin Graham
“Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.”
Warren Buffet
What We Do
Our approach to all opportunities, whatever the sector or location, is the same, and includes comprehensive research, detailed due diligence and careful planning to both property assets and the commercial potential, importantly fully understanding and managing the downside risks at each stage of the investment.
Speed is often critical, but more important is fully understanding the opportunity and especially its downside risks. The management team supported by the back office team, using advance data analytics and state of the art research systems, typically enables a firm decision to be made within 3-4 days if time is of the essence.
We work across a number of investment strategies, these include direct investment deploying our own capital, working in partnership with others, acting as the asset/investment manager for partners and acquiring distressed/special situation vehicles & assets, we also provide consultancy services for partners using our expertise in the UK real estate sector.
Our “reason d’etre” is simply to maximise returns over the life of the investment, irrespective of investment type, scale of the opportunity and sector. Our fundamental approach is opportunistic and entrepreneurial, identifying and maximising opportunities and returns.
We are small enough to ensure a fully committed approach with direct senior management team involvement at every stage, typically we invest in assets with a GDV in the circa £5m - £75m range, with current and pipeline projects having a circa £250m - £400m GDV over 9 – 12 investments.
Our people are our most important asset, we invest in talent, training, internal promotion, encouraging innovation and working as a team. This is a two way process and delivers extraordinary commitment to the delivery of the agreed outputs and a competitive structure that delivers real and measurable benefits to each investment and at every stage of that investment.
We always work as a team, benefiting from collaborative decision making, shared responsibility and a team based performance culture centred on sustainable, long term value creation.
Our core team, who have many decades of working together, have a shared belief in ethical investing, transparency, risk management and responsibility which is an important part of the firm's culture and is part of the learning curve of all new team members.
“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organisational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”
Andrew Carnegie
