Mera Investment Management has completed a £7.5 million bridging loan for an industrial and self-storage development in Southeast England.
The 18-month facility will support the borrower in executing sales and pre-let agreements, with strong interest already shown by major occupiers.
The development includes expanded warehousing, new self-storage units, and enhancements to an existing lorry park—improvements that have been welcomed by local businesses seeking to scale up operations.
The developer, an existing contact of Mera’s, has been operating for 40 years and is highly experienced across a variety of asset classes.
Edward Matthews, CEO of Mera Investment Management, comments:
“It is exciting to close this deal with a valued developer partner who I have had the opportunity to work with before.
“There were complexities to this transaction, including title restrictions, that required a specialist understanding of the risks involved.
“Our expertise, coupled with the existing relationship with the client, meant that we could mitigate these complications and provide a timely solution.”
This is another example of Mera’s ability to support alternative assets classes such as roadside and automotive as well as self-storage. The company has strategically identified these sectors as growth opportunities for its lending department and is looking to deploy more capital into similar assets.
Mera Investment Management specialises in the financing of prime real estate assets—commercial, residential, and alternative—in London and the Home Counties, as well as core regional cities and growth areas across England and Wales.
After growing the team and building the company last year, Mera Investment Management continued this growth into 2025 with strategic internal structuring, appointments and transactional activity. The financial firepower from a range of institutional and international private investors, alongside its family office backer, places the lender in good stead to meet its ambitious targets.
