About Us
Invest better together
Uniting investment & social values
Pi is about change for the better.
Better
- Real estate investment strategy
- Investment returns
- Housing standards
- Communities and environments
- Sustainability and energy efficiency
Established in 2006, Pi’s investment strategy focuses on making opportunistic and value-oriented investments in undervalued UK residential property.
Our objective is to generate superior, absolute and risk-adjusted returns for our clients, through a diversified portfolio of acquisitions, which provide an initial capital uplift and secure long term income.
Pi has a long track record of building value through the development and intensive management of real estate assets, with successful exits.
Investments are targeted with the aim of generating a minimum 16% gross IRR/1.5x gross equity multiple on invested capital.
Our competitive advantage:
- Real estate expertise: Established, proven, real estate advisor and operator, with specialist experience in UK residential property and the affordable housing sector.
- Full property investment cycle experience: Extensive experience from asset sourcing, financial analysis and reporting, development, retro fitting, carbon reduction technology, tenanting, asset management and disposal.
- Network strength: Enables access to off market opportunities from property developers, housing associations and other institutions resulting in the opportunity to benefit from greater equity uplift upon execution and exit
- Risk Mitigation: Insight into location demographics, specific property demand, local authority criteria and partner housing association governance, provides greater confidence in long term income and asset security during lease duration period
- Asset Management: Experience in long term income vehicles within the residential property and affordable housing sector ensures superior income returns and flexibility to match client needs. Experience with Tier 1 and 2 contractors plus supporting frameworks underpins quality and financial discipline
- Value Add: Experience in core plus with development additions, disposals, income uplifts to ensure assets continually perform to highest level
- Investment Committee Expertise: Disciplined, highly detailed, risk aware investment process with premier institutional reporting. Experienced team able to assess the viability and financial robustness of all investment opportunities
“By ensuring pertinent and realistic advice is given, clients have repeated their investment over multiple opportunities and years”
Ewan McGarrie
Director
+44 (0) 7538 461430
Ewan began his professional career in the City of London, working in investor relations and financial public relations with both listed and private companies. His sector focus was within financial services and real estate, advising asset management firms and some of the largest UK real estate developers. He advised senior and board level directors on numerous contested acquisitions, capital raisings and flotations. He founded Propertyinvestment (Pi) in 2006.
Ewan is a keen outdoor enthusiast and hikes on a regular basis. He occasionally plays the bagpipes when called upon, which is thankfully not often! He was a member of the Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band, winning the World Pipe band champions three times, and won many other championships and solo piping competitions.
- 22+ yrs of experience of real estate investment
- 10+ yrs focus in affordable housing sector
- Worked with Close Brothers, Unicredit, Santander, Taylor Wimpey, Savilles, Knight Frank, Persimmon Homes, Affinity Sutton Housing Association
- Negotiation, acquisition, asset management and sale of large scale UK/Continental residential/commercial portfolios
- Extensive network of UK housing associations and residential real estate developers
- Developed and refurbished UK residential property portfolios
- Property management and letting of large scale residential property/multi-asset portfolios
- Experienced housing association negotiator and developer, with detailed knowledge of housing association legislation and lease agreements
Track Record
Pi has a proven track record in investing, developing and managing UK and European residential property.
| Date | City, Country | Units | Return | Comments – Pi/Manager’s Value Add | |
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| 2015- Present | Advisory on multi-property retrofit portfolios for sale and leaseback | Multiple Locations, UK | C400 |
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| 2013- Present | Advisory on Multi-development Affordable Housing Project and Leaseback | Multiple Locations, UK | C1200 |
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| 2012 – 2014 | South East and South London Housing Association Development Partnership | London, West Sussex. UK | 122 |
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| 2010-2022 | East London Refurbishment Project | London, UK | 40 |
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| 2006-2009 | European City centre investment portfolio | Budapest, Hungary Warsaw, Poland | 480 |
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