{"id":558827,"date":"2026-04-30T14:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T14:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/558827\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T14:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T14:29:10","slug":"mera-targets-preferred-equity-gap-as-uk-development-capital-tightens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/558827\/","title":{"rendered":"MERA targets preferred equity gap as UK development capital tightens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"716\" height=\"477\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-1393775274-1-716x477.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Development in central London\"\/><\/p>\n<p>MERA Investment Management has launched a dedicated preferred equity strategy, backed by a \u00a3100 million (\u20ac115 million) capital commitment from a US credit vehicle, as UK developers struggle to bridge equity gaps.<\/p>\n<p>The London-headquartered specialist real estate lender said the strategy is designed to provide a capital solution for developers facing equity shortfalls, as higher interest rates, rising land costs and prolonged planning timelines make it harder to capitalise schemes through traditional capital structures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MERA Investment Management has launched a dedicated preferred equity strategy, backed by a \u00a3100 million (\u20ac115 million) capital&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[191876,78766,191877,87,59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-558827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-alternative-lenders","tag-borrowers","tag-development-finance","tag-featured","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}