Above & beyond

You can’t put a price on the knowledge and experience we have of the leisure and travel real estate market both in the UK and around the world. We monitor the trends and events from different markets and apply them to the ideas and concepts we work with. For example we can take best practises in luxury rural master planning from New Zealand and apply them to the projects we are working on across the UK. We have taken the levels of service experienced in the luxury hotels around the world and instilled them in the operations closer to home. Our established connections with the world’s leading leisure Real Estate developers allow us to apply global experiences to new ideas in local markets. Having created and operated a number of Real Estate businesses in the leisure and travel sectors, we are perfectly positioned to take ideas and concepts and turn them into successful businesses.

Getting your structure right at the beginning paves the way for success to follow unhindered. Get it wrong and you can handicap a business before it has had the time to get off the ground. We implement the simplest and most appropriate structures.. From the outset significant consideration is given to the eventual exit strategy. Typically our structures are unregulated collective investment schemes in the form of limited partnerships. These create tax transparent organizations which can be easily understood and offer flexibility and protection to investors. We have significant experience of working through detailed due diligence and legal procedures to produce a practical commercial solution. This is evident on the creation of the BlueSky Capital fund structures covering multi jurisdictional investors and acquisitions.

One of the strongest operational skills we provide is the ability to source and acquire Real Estate. We have acquired a full spectrum of leisure and travel Real Estate from farms and land to hotels and luxury residences. All of these require the same core procedures but with a differing degrees of complexity. Typically we would use firm negotiation, a vision of the potential available and have the commitment and creativity required to get the deal done. In total we have acquired over $1bn worth of leisure and travel Real Estate in all forms across the globe.

Managing funds require a thorough understanding of corporate governance and due processes, along with robust and disciplined administration procedures. We have considerable experience managing and administrating funds, complying with corporate governance procedures in line with the Financial Services Authority of the UK. Our limited partnership structures have a regulated operator in place to ensure that compliance procedures are checked. K2 Capital manages multimillion dollar funds, each fund requiring proficient communication and detailed investor reporting on a regular basis. As part of the fund management of Natural Retreats we have resourced and managed an operational team. This team will deliver the development, construction and day to day operations of the some of the UK’s leading luxury self-catering accommodation. The development was complimented by the bespoke reservation systems that we have created to run these locations, staffed by travel industry professionals.

The purpose of our work is to bring about profitable exit and disposal scenarios for each of the businesses. The businesses will each have a requirement to dispose of Real Estate at the optimal time in order to deliver returns to the investors. The disposal can take the form of a number of strategies such as individual unit sales, wholesale proposals and business sales or floatation. We have expertise in structuring sales strategies for single units but also have specialist experience in fractional ownership sales in the USA, namely at the world’s leading fractional scheme – The Residences at Little Nell. We are also experienced at negotiating the sale of businesses to investors and industry counterparties as well due consideration given to possible listing or floatation.