Investment boutique TRI Investments has announced it is seeking funds for its European Residential Property Oeic to invest in eastern European residential property. The £30 million fund, TRI’s first, has returned 4.9% over three months and is now 60% invested. It aims to return 10% a year over rolling five-year period... Read more

Tri Investments is seeking to raise new investment for its European Residential Property fund. The vehicle will shortly be fully invested at £30m, with new money required to fund a series of new residential investment opportunities in Eastern Europe.

The Fund will shortly be fully invested at £30m and is now performing in excess of its targeted return of 10 per cent a year (net of fund expenses) over a rolling five-year period....

The firm has identified several opportunities in Eastern European Cities, largely due to service growth in the international business community. The projects are in Romania, Croatia and Lithuania. The fund, established as a Qualified Investor Scheme, is eligible for inclusion in self-invested personal pensions

Tri Investments has begun a round of asset-raising for its £30m European Residentual Property Fund as it prepares to acquire further holdings and move into new countries....

Property prices in many eastern European countries that have recently joined the EU, or are due to join in the near future, have been soaring. Prime flats in Sofia, the Bulgarian capital, have been rising by about 30% a year for the past few years....

Finch says: "I believe that there are huge opportunities for a specialist business like ours. The market is becoming increasingly orientated towards open structures that take a specialist approach to product design and manager selection, which we hope we can provide."

"We believe that the emerging European countries offer the most promising investment opportunities at the current time, but we have the flexibility to widen our scope as future opportunities arise" said Chris Finch, founding director of Tri Investments.

The fund has been designed to exploit fast-growing economies of former Communist countries, where consumer demand for better quality housing is on the increase... King Sturge's 'on the ground' contacts enable it to acquire properties directly from developers at discounts ranging from between 10% and 17.5%...

Tri Investment was set up by Christopher Finch, former head of pensions product development at HSBC Asset Management... The first investments will include holiday complex developments in Croatia and Bulgaria, and urban living developments in Warsaw and Prague....

Newly formed investment boutique Tri Investments is setting up a European residential property fund aiming for an annual return of 12 per cent.....

A fund offering investors a stake in Eastern European property. It will be run in conjunction with Morley Fund Management, Europe's largest property fund manager, and King Sturge. Minimum investment is £5,000 and it aims to produce an annual return of 10 per cent, net of all fees and expenses.

New investment boutique Tri Investments has launched its first property fund for UK investors.... It will initially focus on properties in Poland, the Czech Republic, Croatia and Bulgaria to try and generate a net return of 10 per cent a year....