Geneva based property investment, development, and asset management business, RE Capital and Neworld, a European-domiciled property development company headed by South African property doyen and visionary John Rabie, have launched Reward Properties, a new joint venture which will offer investors unique opportunities to buy into the high-end Portuguese real estate market.
The gross development value of the current Reward Properties portfolio sits at circa €300 million, and each site selected for development meets a stringent set of criteria to ensure that investors can count on strong growth returns.
Reward Properties will provide potential investors with an overview of the expertise of the developers, the range of potential investments, and the quality of the developments.
The two companies first worked together in 2019 developing residential and mixed-use projects in Lisbon with London based Skybound Capital as the major financier. The partnership’s first project was LX Living, a €90 million, 150-unit mixed-use development in Amoreiras, a sought-after residential neighbourhood in central Lisbon which launched to South Africans and local Portuguese investors with great success.
In addition to LX Living, Reward Properties has two development sites in its portfolio which are in the trendy neighbourhood of Marvila in Lisbon, where a total of 300 apartments will be built over the course of the next four years and a further site in the Algarve, Southern Portugal, which will add another 43 villas to the company’s portfolio.
Skybound Capital, a London headquartered global wealth management business, will be Reward Properties’ official finance partner, providing investors with a variety of bespoke loan solutions from short-term bridging finance through to mezzanine capital.
“Our objective is to create a brand that promotes sustained investor confidence and simplifies our go-to-market strategy” comments Newman Leech, co-founder, and CEO of RE Capital.
“By creating Reward Properties, we have discrete but complementary capabilities, and we are delighted to be on a journey together, building a new venture which we believe offers something quite compelling to investors”.
“We are proud to have Skybound Capital on board as our strategic debt funding partner. The company’s solutions-oriented approach enables us to develop tailored real estate offerings, while our focus on the Portuguese residential sector allows our clients to enjoy greater portfolio diversification. We look forward to working with Skybound Capital to identify even more unique opportunities for our clients.”
John Rabie, founder, and Chairman of Neworld, added: “Following the success of our initial partnership, it made strategic sense for us to commit to a joint destiny and to create a new offer that combines our skill sets, joint resources, technical expertise, and access to markets – all of which add great value for our international investors, especially those who might be buying property internationally for the first time.”
“There is no doubt that Portugal is a remarkably beautiful country, and having recently undergone a major infrastructure upgrade, our investors have access to extremely favourable interest rates, as well as rental guarantees and attractive purchase prices.”
