Curate Ventures is an operationally literate real estate manager and investor working across the UK and Europe with private and institutional partners.
We are highly analytical yet clear sighted in our vision. Above all else, our partner relationships are sacred to us.
Why Curate?
The Problem
• The real estate industry faces several challenges that can hinder success for investors and developers:
• Lack of Innovation: The industry has been slow to adopt technology and innovation, resulting in inefficiencies and missed opportunities.
• Limited Access to Market: Identifying and sourcing high-quality investment opportunities can be time-consuming and challenging, particularly for private investors who may not have access to extensive networks.
• Increasing Complexity: With changing market dynamics and regulations, navigating the real estate landscape has become increasingly complex, requiring expertise and a deep understanding of the macro and micro context.
The Solution
Curate offers innovative solutions to address these challenges and ultimately enhance our partners’ portfolio returns:
• Embrace and Drive Innovation: We actively seek out innovative ideas and technologies to streamline processes, improve efficiency, disrupt traditional approaches and create value for our clients.
• Extensive Network: With our deep industry connections and disciplined approach to sourcing, we have a strong network of trusted partners and access to a wide range of high-quality investment opportunities.
• Diversity of Thought and Skills: Our team come from diverse backgrounds and extensive experience in various property cycles. We bring a deep understanding of the market and use our expertise to develop strategies that reflect this ever-changing context.
The Team
Our collective professional backgrounds yield a team rich in experience and creativity. We are proven in delivering a wide range of strategies across numerous mandates and cycles.
Alexander Kim
Founding Partner
Most recent role: Director of Workplace at The Crown Estate
Previously Director of Asset Management - St James’s Portfolio, Senior Asset Manager at Fabrix Capital and Associate Partner at Edward Charles & Partners. 17+ years in real estate.
Rebeca Guzman Vidal
Founding Partner
Most recent role: Principal at Bridgemont
Previously Head of Group Retail Strategy at Chelsfield, Director at CBRE and co-chairs the ULI Europe’s Retail and Entertainment Council. Co-hosts the podcast “Retail is Dead”. 15+ years in real estate.
Darius Divwalla
Founding Partner
Most recent role: Director at IPSX– the world’s first stock exchange dedicated to real estate
Previously Chief Investment Officer at Chelsfield and Fund Manager at Henderson Global Investors. 20+ years in real estate investment and fund management.
Track Record
Our combined track record includes leadership roles at Chelsfield, IPSX, CBRE, Henderson GI (Nuveen), Fabrix Capital, Edward Charles & Partners and The Crown Estate.
Advisory
Investment & Finance
Curate has a diverse and extensive network, enabling off market origination and outperformance in tendered processes.
We are well versed in working with bespoke corporate structures and identifying creative finance solutions to projects.
Development Management
Curate repositions and repurposes buildings to create high value assets.
We deliver projects in complex urban situations, navigating planning, local communities, environmental & heritage stakeholders.
Ultimately, we have a proven track record in pre-letting schemes and exceeding expectations.
Asset Management
Portfolio oversight and governance with a steward’s mindset designing generational asset resilience.
We are accountable for sustainable long-term performance, nurturing tenant relationships, and identifying strategic opportunities.
Curate Ventures is a sector agnostic platform that crafts a strategies to suit our partners' ambitions and goals. Our capabilities allow us to join projects at any point in their lifecycle and identify value add opportunity.
The only solutions are operational.
Ventures
Curate Ventures is investing in operational platforms that capture secular trends whilst leveraging the opportunity presented through building obsolescence.
Healthcare
An ageing population and a growing demand for wellness, preventative healthcare and specialist treatment remains a nascent space which we believe has enormous potential in the UK.
Hospitality
Travel uniquely shapes and broadens minds and making this accessible to as wide a demographic possible is our goal. Affordable short-stay accommodation is either poorly delivered and fractured or increasingly costly as established operators struggle to maintain price-points.
We focus on high growth alternative sectors where there is scope to build new concepts that solve a genuine need.
