UK ROUNDTABLE: Opportunity amid regulatory Armageddon

The UK private equity real estate market is treading water amid a torrent of regulation capable of ‘destroying the industry’. Apart from that, opportunistic real estate investment in England is showing increasing signs of life. PERE Magazine June 2011 issue.

There’s a “torrent of regulation” set to hit the UK.

So says a concerned Stuart Jenkin, director of fund management at UK private equity real estate firm Frogmore, one of three participants in PERE’s UK-focused roundtable this year. Jenkin, like the roundtable’s other two participants – Harin Thaker, head of real estate finance international at Deutsche Pfandbriefbank, and Dean Hodcroft, head of real estate for Europe, Middle East, India and Africa at Ernst & Young – fears real estate fund managers and some of their investors are facing a flood of proposed regulation aimed...