FORE Partnership

FORE Partnership

FORE Partnership was established in 2012 by a team that had worked at Capricorn Investment Group, the family office of eBay co-founder Jeff Skoll. Basil Demeroutis leads the firm as managing partner and sets strategy for its real-estate activities. The platform invests capital from private families, institutions and corporates on a pooled-fund, managed-account and co-investment basis. The firm concentrates on offices, mixed-use urban assets and residential schemes in the UK and continental Europe. It acquires standing buildings, executes low-carbon refurbishments and targets a green premium on exit. Confirmed holdings include Tower Bridge Court in London, Cadworks in Glasgow, Windmill Green in Manchester, 255 Hammersmith Road in London and 6-9 Geisbergstrasse in Berlin. FORE has completed more than £1 billion in transactions since inception and maintains a retrofit-first policy that avoids new construction. The team comprises roughly a dozen investment and operations professionals based in London. FORE maintains an advisory board that includes David Hood, formerly of the Stanford Management Company, and Paul Brundage, ex-head of real estate at OMERS. The firm is a certified B Corporation and has held a GRESB 5-star rating for six consecutive years. In 2020 it bought out the 32 percent minority stake previously held by Edmond de Rothschild Real Estate Investment Management. FORE’s structure retains a minority link to Capricorn Investment Group while operating as an independent manager. This heritage supplies access to technology and climate-solution networks that inform its building-level strategies. The firm’s governance separates investment decisions from the philanthropic vehicles associated with its founding capital.