Insights
03.04.2025
The real estate finance landscape
Daniel Austin, ASK CEO writes in Green Street News about the challenging landscape for developers looking to finance projects. Traditional lenders have scaled back, but sophisticated private credit providers are filling the gap.
Insights
01.04.2025
Daniel Austin comments in The Telegraph on changes to planning process
Is Labour abandoning the nimbys or taking the necessary steps to get development moving?
Insights
27.03.2025
ESG development and investment in a divided world
ASK’s CEO and Co-founder, Daniel Austin discusses in CoStar magazine how meeting environmental standards comes at a heavy cost in the real estate world but success equates to strong demand and therefore long term asset value.
News
09.05.2025
ASK co-lends £13m for London hotel refurbishment
ASK and has co-lent £13m with OakNorth Bank to London hotel operator and developer, Capilon Group. The senior loan facility will refinance existing debt and fund the final stages of refurbishment of The Edwin Hotel at Earls Court, (formerly The Mayflower Hotel) which is due to open later this month.
Insights
14.04.2025
The rise of stranded assets
There are almost 100,000 more empty homes in the UK since the empty homes tax was introduced in 2013.
News
26.03.2025
Merryn Somerset Webb speaks at ASK investor conference
ASK Private Client hosted its second investor conference, “Building Wealth in 2025” at the Bechstein Hall in London.
Insights
11.03.2025
Daniel Austin discusses adapting to market conditions
ASK CEO and Co-founder, Daniel Austin, talks to Real Estate Capital Europe about the company’s flexibility and how it led to winning small-ticket market lender of 2024.