When timing matters, funding should be able to keep pace. Fedgroup recently provided a structured property finance facility to Blaauwklippen Estate in Stellenbosch, enabling the estate to act on an opportunity to expand its facilities on a timeline that suited its growth plans. Rather than forcing the deal through the slower, more rigid processes of traditional funding, we structured a solution around the estate’s needs, providing both certainty of funding and the agility to move when the opportunity presented itself.

Founded in 1682, Blaauwklippen is South Africa’s oldest registered company and one of the country’s oldest wine estates. Today, it is also far more than a heritage property. The estate has evolved into a diversified lifestyle destination with vineyards, hospitality offerings, accommodation, events, a popular weekend market and a residential development component. This is not a simple asset with a neat little label attached. It is a multi-layered, long-term property with value realised across multiple income streams.

Rather than applying a one-size-fits-all model, we structured the capital around the realities of the asset itself, including the estate’s different income streams and the way value is realised over time. In a market like the Western Cape, where attractive opportunities do not tend to hang around, the ability to move quickly is only half the story. The other half is knowing what you are funding and shaping capital around how the value unfolds.

For us, this project is yet another example of our Private Capital offering doing what it does best: backing real assets with structures that fit the opportunity rather than trying to squeeze everything into the same box.

Click here to read more about the Blaauwklippen project.