Basil is the Managing Partner of FORE Partnership, the purpose-driven real estate private investment firm that believes in driving social and environmental innovation in the built environment. FORE achieves this by transforming buildings through active, hands on asset management that focuses on low carbon strategies, social impact, place making and design. Prior to founding FORE, Basil was a partner at Capricorn Investment Group, the family office of Jeff Skoll (eBay), overseeing the firm’s European business, the real estate strategy globally, and serving on the firm’s investment committee.
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Ilan Azouri
Ilan is the Managing Director of Astone Investments, a London/Mayfair based Single Family Office. He has over 25 years of direct investment experience in Real Estate, Private Equity and Venture Capital, including in creating strategic JV’s and co-investments with institutions and families. Ilan initially practiced law and was Managing Partner of an international law firm. He has an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and a law degree with Honours from the University of Essex.
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Patrick Church MRICS
Hardington Capital
Patrick has over 10 years of commercial investment experience, undertaking complicated cashflow analysis and evaluation on hundreds of investment and development opportunities across all sectors.
Managed the sale and purchase of over £500m of commercial investments in locations throughout the UK. Currently asset managing a £100m commercial portfolio in the UK and Europe. Global clients include CERN Pension Fund and Catalina RE.
Patrick previously held the position of Head of Investment at a 50 year old Central London property consultancy and has managed portfolios for the Crown Estate, Wellcome Trust and Associated British Ports.
Patrick holds a BSc in Real Estate Management and is a Member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
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Marcel Shanti
Econest
Econest - Loving unloved properties
Marcel Shanti (CEO and co-founder)
Over 15 years in global real estate. Managed and renovated £50M+ HMO National portfolio, whilst pioneering £60Bn FTSE UK Commercial Property Index. Raised and advised over £250M of debt/equity in UK ‘living’ sectors
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Mark Wells, Matt Hallissey
Invisible Homes
Invisible Homes: Making off-market massive
Mark Wells CEO: 20+ years of residential property experience in all sides of the UK market. 6 years as CEO of Invisible Homes. 8 years as co-owner of Homes One Ltd – a successful London property search agency. 7 years as an estate agent for Savills and Hamptons International.
Matt Hallissey COO: After graduating Cambridge with a Masters in Physics, he spent a decade at AECOM focused on due diligence for investors in infrastructure assets. 16 years experience in the built environment from Fortune 500 to start-up level. 5 years at TopHat, a technology-driven modular homebuilder, from inception through a £75m capital raise from Goldman Sachs.
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Chris Cater, Stephen Mistretta
Fable Capital
Delivering an accelerated route to homeownership
Chris Cater, a proven entrepreneur and qualified accountant, brings over 20 years of experience with demonstrated success in diverse industries and leadership roles. From his early career in digital advertising to co-founding YunoJuno in 2012, he has acquired comprehensive financial expertise and developed a SaaS platform for contingent workforce management.
Stephen Mistretta, is an experienced finance executive with 20+ years in capital markets, investment management, and Fintech. Built global investment businesses for Family Offices. Worked at JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, and Bear Stearns. Co-founded a marketplace for finance and insurance products, serving SMEs and retail customers with tailored solutions.
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Company backgrounds and useful links.
FORE Partnership
Basil Demeroutis
FORE Partnership is a purpose-driven, transformational real estate investment firm active in the UK and western Europe. FORE’s holistic approach to carbon reduction, design, technology, and community, brings together environmental sustainability, social impact and an authentic appreciation of how people live, work, and interact, turning these into drivers of profitability for investors and tenants. The firm has a portfolio of over one million square feet spanning offices, mixed use, and residential sectors. The FORE team has a successful €5 billion track record spanning three decades.
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Ilan Azouri
Astone Investments is a Single Family Office based in Mayfair. Founded in 2014, its main objective is creating long-term strategic joint ventures with well-established platforms, mainly across Europe, with the intention of preserving and growing the wealth. Astone investments’ activities include both real estate and private equity, among others within a wide range of real estate investment activities (commercial, hotels, offices, logistics, residential and asset backed deals )
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Hardington Capital
Patrick Church MRICS
Hardington Capital is a boutique real estate investment advisor and asset manager specialising in Commercial Property.
We take time to fully understand our client objectives before finding and then managing compelling opportunities in the UK and Europe. We specialize in finding property investments and development opportunities that are seldom traded publicly, thus providing a unique deal flow and delivering strong returns to investors.
Hardington Capital was formed by Robert Bartlett in 2017 who had previously been the CEO of Chestertons for 11 years and prior to that an equity partner with Cluttons LLP. Between them the team at Hardington Capital has in excess of over 60 years of expertise in UK property markets.
We recognise the need for a specialist niche team, focused entirely on protecting wealth, whilst still providing above average, inflation beating returns and cashflow.
Our investors are our partners. Our approach is bespoke, discrete and personal and we work with private individuals, family offices and institutions. Hardington Capital works alongside legal advisors, tax specialists and wealth managers to ensure that all investment structures are correctly established to meet the investment goals of our clients.
In a world of uncertainty and change, our experience, extensive networks, technology and a deep understanding of the market are key. For decades team members at Hardington Capital have established a reputation for delivering strong, considered investments for our clients and we look forward to sharing more about how we can best help you.
For further information, please email [guy.rees@hardingtoncapital.com](mailto:guy.rees@hardingtoncapital.com)
+44 7970 292846
www.hardingtoncapital.com
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Econest
Marcel Shanti
Econest - Loving unloved properties
Econest sources and purchases energy inefficient properties to retrofit and manage at scale for investment portfolios.
**Executive Summary**
Econest is a tech-enabled asset manager that sources and purchases energy inefficient properties to retrofit and manage at scale for large investment portfolios. Converting properties with an EPC grade of D/E/F/G to C/B/A, while drastically reducing energy used and carbon emissions
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Invisible Homes
Mark Wells, Matt Hallissey
Invisible Homes: Making off-market massive
For years, Rightmove & Zoopla have dominated the UK’s online property market.
Many have tried to take them on and failed. Why? Because people are tired of seeing the same old properties on umpteen different sites.
That’s where we’re different.
We show buyers homes they can’t see anywhere else. We help sellers sell for more, without going stale. We help agents do something they’re already doing (selling off-market) on a much bigger scale. And we use the power of AI to make the whole experience slicker for everyone.
And the beauty is, we can do it without going head-to-head with the Titans.
**Until we can**
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Fable Capital
Chris Cater, Stephen Mistretta
Delivering an accelerated route to homeownership
Fable is a residential real estate rent-to-own technology platform that combines the benefits of institutional investment in high-quality single-family rental properties with the opportunity for first-time homebuyers to accelerate their path to homeownership. Their proven, tech-enabled home-buying platform offers accessible homeownership and an efficient and robust investment process for institutions, ensuring faster capital deployment and predictable returns.
