Kinrise, the firm we introduced you to in Week 8 of 2024, have shared the first of their acquisitions at 81 Colmore Row, in Birmingham.

ICYMI: The firm buys iconic buildings to convert them into inspiring workspaces, and play a part in the renewal of UK cities.

Kinrise Real Estate cofounders Samuel Lawson Johnston and George Aberdeen share why they’re launching a new investment fund, Kinrise UK Cities Fund II, to invest in renewing UK cities.

Backstory is that they started CRE investing in 2005, buying and selling on behalf of others for 10 years, then saw great things happening in creative hubs like coworking spaces. So in 2015 they started Kinrise to merge an institutional approach to CRE investing with the creativity and culture of a managed workspace "to create buildings that outperform". To date they’ve invested over £100M in 12 projects across 5 UK cities.