Green Street News: Q+A: Maslow and Fusion on agreeing £500m student mega-loan

Last week Fusion Group and Maslow Capital  agreed a £500m whole-loan facility – one of the largest single-lender debt packages arranged for UK purpose-built student accommodation.

The finance was agreed in order to fund five prime schemes in Birmingham, London, Loughborough, Glasgow and Cardiff, together delivering 3,138 bedrooms.

Arrow Global-backed Maslow Capital has been a prolific – and large – lender into the living sector over the past few years, while Fusion is stacking up the schemes in order to hit 11,200 bedrooms under management by 2030.

Green Street News spoke with Daniel Harris, chief investment officer at Fusion Group, along with Rachael Gordon, head of deal execution, and Sky Mapson, senior director of origination at Maslow Capital, about what the blockbuster loan says about the UK’s student accommodation sector.