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Mert Z. is listed as Chartered Surveyor who over 16 years has built a strong track record associated to UK real estate and debt strategies. at Alpha Property Lending, a with 5 employees, based in London, England, United Kingdom. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for Mert Z..
Mert Z. previously worked as Head of Commercial Lending at Alpha Property Lending and Investment Manager at Puma Property Finance. Mert Z. holds Real Estate, Investment And Finance, Law, Valuation, Economics, International Real Estate from University Of Reading.
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Mert joined Alpha Property Lending as a Director in December 2021 to originate, execute and run development, investment and bridging loans for borrowers across established locations in the UK across various real estate asset sectors. In June 2023, he was made Head of Commercial Lending further to progressing deals in the residential, PBSA, care, retirement living, office, industrial and self-storage sectors with clients such as EQT Exeter, Fiera Real Estate, Q-Investment Partners and Torsion Group.Prior to that, Mert held roles at Puma Property Finance and Octopus Real Estate as an Investment Manager from 2018 to provide development, investment term and bridging finance to investors and developers against commercial property and development sites in the UK. Prior to this, from March 2017, Mert had been working in origination for the Private Equity Real Estate Team in the RBS Real Estate Finance Corporate department. He has assessed numerous debt proposals across traditional and alternative asset classes which have cumulatively totalled in excess of £2 billion in this role. Further to modelling and assessment of risk appetite, Mert has engaged committees and provided lending terms to customers as well as initiated leads for new business from prospects.In previous roles, as a Corporate Director, Mert has had over seven years experience in corporate and property restructuring/recovery work at RBS, across a broad range of asset classes and business sectors and has been involved in numerous corporate advisory projects. Mert specialised in restructuring and realisations of debt backed by asset security for the SME market but has had a wealth experience managing a large portfolio of corporate clients.Mert has had extensive experience in working with and advising Fixed Charge Receivers who have acted on behalf of numerous lenders. He has managed several appointments, with involvement from the strategy development and management stages, all the way through to the sale of these properties. The work that Mert has been involved with in the Investment Consulting team at BNP Paribas Real Estate has complemented this experience, as he has advised lending institutions about whether specific properties would be suitable for security against a loan facility.Within work, Mert has consistently been awarded business development prizes and been placed on leadership schemes. Outside of work Mert has sporting interests and is a keen rugby player who has obtained ten international rugby caps for Turkey and captained the national side.
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London, England, United Kingdom
Lending Director at Alpha, who are a fast and reliable lender against residential and commercial real estate assets, focused on bespoke financing solutions tailored to each project. Alpha lend in established locations across the UK, providing borrowers with senior and mezzanine development, investment and bridging facilities.
Puma Property Finance is part of Puma Investments which in turn is part of the Shore Capital Group, an investment banking group with a 30+ year history. We deliver loans to finance residential, commercial and specialist sector projects such as hotels, student accommodation and healthcare, including care homes and retirement living. We offer three core loan products: stretch senior development loans, pre-development bridge finance for site acquisition; and post-development exit finance. Typically we lend £5m-35m but can consider larger loans. We have grown significantly in recent years, in 2019 lending over £200m in new loans and are looking to increase that further in 2020 and beyond. We have lent over £600m to date and are a substantial player in the development finance sector focused on loans between £3m - £30m.In addition, on the back of our strong property lending track record, we secured a £200m funding line from a European Private Equity House. This strong endorsement of our lending expertise from an institutional investor enables us to further scale-up our activities with professional UK developers, to deliver both residential schemes and projects in specialist sectors including hotels, retirement living, student accommodation and care homes. We take seriously the importance of understanding our clients, investors, markets and our products.
London, United Kingdom
Octopus Real Estate (“ORE”) is part of Octopus Capital, a £8.0bn AUM privately owned, London-based Fund Manager specialising in Property, Small & Mid-cap Investments, Healthcare, Venture and Energy. ORE is one of the UK's leading providers of specialist real estate finance. Established in 2009, ORE has provided c.£4.0bn of capital to professional investors and developers. Our capital is wholly discretionary and comprised of proprietary managed funds from both retail and institutional channels.The Commercial Team in Octopus Property deploys both short term bridging and longer term investment debt. After the successful deployment of £465m with its first Commercial Real Estate Debt Fund (CREDF), the team now deploys its second institutional raised fund (CREDF II) for commercial bridging loans. The Octopus peer-to-peer lending platform funds lending on Commercial let investments across the UK to all mainstream and alternative use classes for 2-5 years.Mert has originated and lent to investors and developers with respect to both commercial bridging and term investment facilities, running cases from initial enquiry to loan completion and overseeing loans thereafter.
Latest role was working in origination of investment and development real estate finance to private equity real estate sponsors across a broad range of asset classes including offices, retail, industrial and purpose built student accommodation. Consideration given to risk parameters and financial modelling undertaken to establish appropriate structuring and pricing.Previously specialising in property loan restructuring and recoveries within the Corporate & Commercial Restructuring team at RBS. Had been selected to implement the specialist Real Estate Restructuring Recoveries team working on larger loan books and since 2013-2017 focused on SME customers. Also played an active role in the set up of products and services that Restructuring Real Estate Asset Management now offer.Work entailed looking at restructuring options for borrowers in default and trying to bring them back to a satisfactory position through the implementation of a restructure with suitable risk/reward parameters. If a restructure is not a viable option, contingency planning for a consensual exit strategy is progressed with borrowers or an enforcement scenario considered if all consensual options have been exhausted, but only as a last resort.
Qualified as a Chartered Surveyor.Full time role in the Recovery & Restructuring department. Assisted LPA Receivers in the Recovery & Restructuring team. Lead on distressed property assets in the development of strategy, management of appointments and the sale of properties across all asset classes.As a graduate, also involved in the asset management of portfolios of properties in the Asset Optimisation team. Work primarily involved rationalising the Royal Mail portfolio. I was made BNPP RE manager of the Royal Mail Group London Portfolio and led projects such as service charge reconciliation, advertising hoarding prospects, minimising vacant space and consolidating operational space.Undertaking RICS Red Book valuations for loan security and financial accounting purposes across various property asset classes in the Investment Consulting team in final rotation of APC too.
Distinction Obtained. Various awards obtained including RICS highest achieving student award and PPR best dissertation award.
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Mert Z. works for Alpha Property Lending.
Mert Z. is listed as Chartered Surveyor who over 16 years has built a strong track record associated to UK real estate and debt strategies. at Alpha Property Lending.
Mert Z. is based in London, England, United Kingdom while working with Alpha Property Lending.
Mert Z. has worked for Alpha Property Lending, Puma Property Finance, Octopus Real Estate, Royal Bank Of Scotland Business, and Bnp Paribas Real Estate.
Mert Z.'s colleagues at Alpha Property Lending include Matthew Tucker and Monika Sinclair.
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Mert Z. holds Real Estate, Investment And Finance, Law, Valuation, Economics, International Real Estate from University Of Reading.
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