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Investment strategies

One sector. Multiple ways to invest.

Australian hospitality can be approached as an operating investment, a real estate investment or a partnership. We run all three from a single platform, with the same underwriting standard applied to each.

  • Value-add
  • Income
  • Operator partnerships

The strategies differ in structure and risk. The discipline behind them does not.

Each strategy draws on the same origination network, the same underwriting process and the same operating capability. What changes is where the return is expected to come from: operational improvement, contracted income, or a structured position alongside an operator.

Investors can therefore select the exposure that matches their mandate without changing manager, sector or process.

01

Neighbourhood Opportunities

Value-Add / Active Ownership

Acquire hospitality operating businesses and freehold going concerns where active management, capital investment and stronger operating systems can create material improvement.

Typical opportunities may include

  • Freehold going concerns
  • Operating businesses
  • Quality leaseholds
  • Succession-led transactions
  • Undercapitalised venues
  • Venues with identifiable operational upside
  1. Acquire
  2. Strengthen
  3. Invest
  4. Improve
  5. Revalue
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02

Neighbourhood Income

Hospitality Real Estate / Income

Acquire hospitality property and stabilised assets where long-duration occupancy, strong operators and quality real estate can support recurring income and long-term value.

Potential transaction structures

  • Hospitality freeholds
  • Sale-and-leaseback
  • Leased pub and hotel assets
  • Stabilised freehold going concerns
  • Assets leased to Neighbourhood Venue Co.
  • Assets leased to selected third-party operators
  1. Acquire
  2. Lease / Stabilise
  3. Income
  4. Hold
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03

Neighbourhood Strategic Capital

Operator Partnerships / Growth Capital

Partner with quality hospitality operators that require capital to acquire, expand, recapitalise or improve venues without necessarily selling their entire business.

Potential structures

  • Joint ventures
  • Preferred equity
  • Minority growth capital
  • Acquisition partnerships
  • Recapitalisations
  • Portfolio expansion
  • Structured capital
  1. Partner
  2. Capitalise
  3. Grow
  4. Share Value

Strategic Capital is a future-capability framework. It does not imply a currently available financial product unless separately activated and approved.

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Strategy descriptions describe intended investment activity. They do not constitute an offer of a financial product and no return, income or performance outcome is implied or guaranteed.

Investment thesis

The characteristics we are underwriting.

Common to all three strategies is a view that hospitality combines real assets with recurring local demand, and that performance can be influenced by ownership.
  1. 01

    Real Assets

    Hospitality venues often combine operating businesses with strategically located real estate.

  2. 02

    Recurring Local Demand

    Strong venues can become embedded within their communities and benefit from recurring customer behaviour.

  3. 03

    Operational Alpha

    Performance can be influenced through better systems, people, pricing, procurement, marketing and capital investment.

  4. 04

    Fragmented Ownership

    A fragmented market can create opportunities to partner with independent operators and acquire assets outside large institutional portfolios.

These characteristics describe why we focus on the sector. They do not guarantee returns, and each investment is assessed on its own merits, with explicit downside cases.

Origination

Opportunity is created, not waited for.

Relationships across the hospitality industry generate transactions that are frequently not broadly marketed. Origination is a capability, not a coincidence.
  1. Hospitality Network

    Relationships

    • Operators
    • Venue owners
    • Industry advisers
    • Operating partners
  2. Proprietary Origination

    Designed to create opportunity

    • Succession
    • Growth capital
    • Sale & stay
    • Sale & exit
    • Sale & leaseback
    • Portfolio expansion
  3. Neighbourhood Capital

    Investment discipline

    • Underwriting
    • Structuring
    • Investment committee
    • Capital deployment

Investor enquiry

Discuss which strategy fits your mandate.

Enquiries from family offices, wholesale investors, institutional capital and advisers are treated confidentially. Information available on request is limited to eligible investors.

General enquiries: enquiries@neighbourhood.capital

Australian Hospitality · Private Markets · Real Assets