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You are head of the UK for one of the world’s two biggest real estate investors, with almost unlimited firepower at your disposal, a huge portfolio to asset manage and a development portfolio to die for. There are not many people that would leave that situation.
But Martin Jepson did.
“I’d spent basically my entire life in the corporate sector, so it was nice to come out of that and have a bit more freedom and a bit more of a chance to express myself,” he said. “I wanted to test myself.”
Jepson was UK president and chief operating officer at Brookfield Property Partners, overseeing a portfolio of 4M SF of offices in London, including developments. He had ramped up Brookfield’s exposure to London, moving to the company from Hammerson and then buying his old shop’s London portfolio for £500M in 2012, a deal which came to be seen as an absolute steal.
But in 2017 he left to “pursue other opportunities”, and was absent from the spotlight until 2019, when the announcement came that he had teamed up with former Grafton Advisers partner Chris Cope to form Ergo Real Estate, a new investor and developer focusing on value-add and opportunistic deals. In the two-year…
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