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Lucy Young

Partner, Capital Markets

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Lucy professionally navigates the funding and investment market with an impressive work ethic.

With knowledge and experience of working with business space assets, as well as property in the science and technology sector, Lucy is well versed in advising her clients; on the disposal and acquisition of investment properties, their investment strategy and securing funding partners.

Whether she is assisting you on the value of your asset, sourcing new investment opportunities or guiding you through the transaction legal process, Lucy uses her experience to properly tailor her advice to you, enabling you to fully optimise your property’s potential.

Thriving on the success of her clients’ projects, Lucy works tirelessly to ensure her clients are provided with an impeccable level of service to build strong client rapport.

Lucy’s portfolio of successful projects speaks for itself. Most recently advising on; circa £200m of property located on the Cambridge Science Park, sourcing a funding partner for a pre-let opportunity on the Cambridge Biomedical campus; and part of Cambridge’s CB1 masterplan team.

Lucy is MRICS accredited.

Experience

Capital Markets
Investment, Development Funding and JV

Capital Markets

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Investment, Development Funding and JV

Uncover high-value opportunities in the UK's most exciting and competitive markets.

Project

Disposal of reversionary office in heart of Windsor

Prominently located single let office investment with 6 years term certain in the town centre of Royal Windsor.

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Southgate House, 449-499 Midsummer Boulevard, Milton Keynes

The property is entirely let to The Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities for a term expiring 31/03/2028, therefore providing 5.89 years to lease expiry.

Project

Gateway 11, Wymondham

The industrial units total 115,977 sq ft and are let at a passing rent of £739,545 per annum to tenants including Cadent Gas, Multimatic and Greencore.

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101 Cambridge Science Park

The 79,990 sq ft grade A office building is located at the entrance to the Cambridge Science Park.

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Spectrum, Abingdon Business Park

The vacant ‘Spectrum’ building was acquired by Royal London to add to their existing ownership at Abingdon Business Park, a 50 acre industrial and office park in the heart of the knowledge corridor.

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Monarch House & Penlon House, Abingdon Science Park

Monarch House and Penlon House were acquired from two separate private owners.

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Merlin Place, Cambridge

Kadans Science Partner has added to its Pan-European portfolio after acquiring Merlin Place in Cambridge from a private investor who was represented by Bidwells.

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Watchmoor Trade Centre, Camberley, Surrey

Located in Camberley, a key industrial corridor for the south east with direct access to the M3 Motorway, the freehold multi let two story industrial and workshop estate is situated just 2 minutes’ drive from the A30 and A331.

Project

Victoria Street, Windsor

Freehold acquisition of a three storey 11,468 sq ft town centre office building let at a current rent of £399,000 per annum with 10.7 years remaining on the lease.

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Unit 418 and 436, Cambridge Science Park

A market-defining deal to sell two laboratory and office buildings on the world-renowned Cambridge Science Park, on behalf of a Cambridge College to Brockton Everlast, for £45.1m. The two self-contained prime office and laboratory buildings total 74,800 sq ft and are let to internationally prominent life science companies Astex and Takeda, both with an unexpired lease term of 10.5 years, with an annual income of circa £1.28m.

Project

Premier Inn, Milton Keynes

The new hotel in Central Milton Keynes completed ahead of schedule in June 2020 and pre-let to Premier Inn Hotels Limited for 25 years subject to CPI linked rental uplifts.

Project

Clarendon House, Cambridge

Sale of city centre freehold Cambridge office building totalling 23,816 sq ft, with an excellent car parking ratio of 1:433 sq ft. Multi let to five tenants on six leases AWULT of 4.31 years and 2.58 years to breaks. Total income £657,924 per annum which equates to an overall rate of £27.63 per sq ft. Potential reversion to in excess of £30 per sq ft overall. Longer term redevelopment optionality.

Project

Pinder House, Milton Keynes

Acquisition of a 18,300 sq ft freehold HQ office building in Milton Keynes as a sale and leaseback, let to Christie Group Plc on a new 15 year lease at a rent reflecting circa £18 per sq ft

Project

Blu, Milton Keynes

New 31,568 sq ft warehouse. The property is let to Funrise International Limited on a new full repairing and insuring lease from 1 May 2019 for a term of 10 years. There is a six month rent deposit of £133,875 plus VAT. There is also a parent company guarantee from Matrix Holdings Limited.

Project

Yokohama, Milton Keynes

Warehouse totalling 108,018 sq ft let to Yokohama H.P.T Ltd on an FRI lease for a further 3.75 years

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St Andrews House, Cambridge

Substantial city centre block providing 21,800 sq ft of retail accommodation over ground and basement, and 28,000 sq ft of office space over three upper floors, with basement car parking. Multi-let to 21 tenants at a gross rent of £1,633,000 per annum. Strategic purchase of long leasehold interest on behalf of the freeholder.

Project

Bedford Point, Croydon

Freehold acquisition of a four-storey, 12,735 sq ft office building let at a current rent of £354,722 per annum, with a three year term certain to a D&B 5A1 covenant.

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214-240 Cambridge Science Park

With demand for UK life sciences real estate soaring after the sector’s success in combatting the global pandemic, Legal and General’s (L&G) eight-acre office campus disposal sparked a fierce bidding war - and a high profile £100m sale.

Project

214-240 Cambridge Science Park

Project

Abingdon Business Park

Using Bidwells’ in-depth market research, we helped build a business plan to persuade Royal London to invest in the Park which forms part of the Oxfordshire science and technology market.

Project

Wellington House, Cambridge

Our lease consultancy team negotiated the lease renewals and rent reviews for Wellington House, on behalf of LaSalle Investment Management, over a period of 15 years.

Project

Cambridge Research Park

Rockspring originally acquired the 112-acre site, in partnership with asset manager XLB Property, in 2014 for £21m, with 80,000 sq ft of existing net lettable space.

Project

Cambridge Research Park - Completed Deal

Rockspring originally acquired the 112-acre site, in partnership with asset manager XLB Property, in 2014 for £21m, with 80,000 sq ft of existing net lettable space.

Project

Abcam

Abcam supplies two thirds of the world's life scientists with the biological tools required for research, which means they need specialist laboratories.

Project

Cambridge BioMedical Campus

A cure for cancer may one day be discovered at the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, but a decade before pharmaceutical giants AstraZeneca and Cancer Research UK joined Addenbrooke’s Hospital to create this world-class life sciences cluster, we were helping the landowners reimagine their neighbouring farmland

Project

CB1

Ambitious developer Brookgate set out to transform Cambridge’s fading train station area by delivering Lord Roger’s visionary 1.6m sq ft CB1 master plan. They needed more than just a team of consultants.

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Lucy professionally navigates the funding and investment market with an impressive work ethic.

Experience

Capital Markets

Investment, Development Funding and JV

Disposal of reversionary office in heart of Windsor

Southgate House, 449-499 Midsummer Boulevard, Milton Keynes

Gateway 11, Wymondham

101 Cambridge Science Park

Spectrum, Abingdon Business Park

Monarch House & Penlon House, Abingdon Science Park

Merlin Place, Cambridge

Watchmoor Trade Centre, Camberley, Surrey

Victoria Street, Windsor

Unit 418 and 436, Cambridge Science Park

Premier Inn, Milton Keynes

Clarendon House, Cambridge

Pinder House, Milton Keynes

Blu, Milton Keynes

Yokohama, Milton Keynes

St Andrews House, Cambridge

Bedford Point, Croydon

214-240 Cambridge Science Park

214-240 Cambridge Science Park

Abingdon Business Park

Wellington House, Cambridge

Cambridge Research Park

Cambridge Research Park - Completed Deal

Abcam

Cambridge BioMedical Campus

CB1

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