People Moves: 03/03/2025

Octopus Investments launches Real Estate Debt Fund IV with £750m fund raising target and Eversheds Sutherland boosts its energy offering with new partner appointment

In today’s newsletter, Energy and Infrastructure Moves has learned that Octopus Investments (Octopus), an investment manager on a mission to invest in the people, ideas and industries that will change the world, has today announced it has launched the Octopus Real Estate Debt Fund IV (OREDF IV). The fund will provide senior-secured, transitional debt, unlocking depreciated real estate and development sites to create modern places to live and work in the UK.

OREDF IV, which is targeting a raise of £750m, will fund senior-secured acquisition, development and stabilisation loans across all the key living sectors (student, co-living, build-to-rent, build-to-sell, retirement living and care homes) as well as an allocation to offices, industrial and retail.

As an Article 8 Fund under EU SFDR regulation, OREDF IV aims to deliver sustainable returns by backing best-in-class developers, delivering buildings that not only enhance the built environment but meet modern environmental targets that are fit for the future.