U.S. Giant Longfellow Makes First UK Life Sciences Investment

Courtesy of Longfellow Real Estate Partners
Capital Park Cambridge

Longfellow Real Estate Partners has teamed up with Canadian pension fund PSP to buy a life sciences campus in Cambridge for £170M.

Longfellow and PSP have bought Capital Park Cambridge from a joint venture between Elliott Management and Oval Real Estate. The 42-acre campus includes approximately 250K SF of innovation-focused workspace that is home to a dozen companies from sectors like tech, agtech and biotech to patent law and the NHS/Department of Health, Longfellow said.

Longfellow hired Brockton Capital Director Alex Wright last year to make a big push into the fast-growing UK life sciences real estate sector. It owns or manages 15M SF of life sciences real estate in the U.S. with a value of about $10B.

It plans to buy more assets in Cambridge, Oxford and London.

PSP and Longfellow have invested together in the U.S., and PSP knows the Cambridge, UK, market well, having invested in a campus of office assets near the city’s train station alongside UK pension fund Aviva.

Capital Park was part of a £950M portfolio bought by Elliott and Oval from fund manager Nuveen earlier this year. In the fund’s last published fact sheet, the value of Capital Park was put at £150M, meaning the duo have made a quick profit by spinning out the asset.

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