About Us

Simon is a founding partner of Farran Investments. Simon has been in the property industry for nearly 25 years, during which time he has acquired, funded, managed and exited some £5 billion of real estate assets.

Most recently, Simon was a co-founder and the CEO of LXi REIT Advisors and co-fund manager of LXi REIT plc from IPO in February 2017 to 2024, when it merged with LondonMetric Property and became a FTSE 100 company.

Prior to LXi, Simon trained and practised as a solicitor at Slaughter and May from 1999 to 2006, following which he spent the next 10 years in private equity with a key focus on UK property, co-founding Osprey Equity Partners in 2011 and LXi REIT in 2017.

Freddie is a founding partner of Farran Investments and both a chartered accountant (ACA) and a chartered surveyor (MRICS) property finance and investment pathway.

Freddie was previously CFO of LXi REIT Advisors from January 2018 to September 2023, and latterly a strategic consultant to the firm up to its merger with LondonMetric Property plc in January 2024.

Under his leadership, the firm transacted on £2.5 billion of debt with wide range of UK commercial and investment banks, credit funds and financial institutions on both a secured and unsecured basis. In this time Freddie led LXi through its maiden credit rating process, achieving and maintaining an investment grade rating from S&P.

The firm also undertook M&A transactions with a combined enterprise value in excess of £5bn, including two of the UK’s largest ever strategic mergers in the listed real estate sector and delivered a 55% total NAV return and a 43% total shareholder return, assuming dividends reinvested (versus -13% EPRA/Nareit index performance over the same period).

Rob is a founding partner of Farran Investments and is a Chartered Surveyor with more than 17 years’ experience in commercial property, working across all major sub-sectors. Rob has asset and investment management experience on triple net lease, long income and operational real estate mandates across the full asset and fund lifecycle.

Rob qualified with CBRE before joining Prestbury to work on a sale and leaseback private fund. In 2014, he helped launch Secure Income REIT plc and managed it through to the merger with LXi REIT plc in 2022 and subsequent merger with LondonMetric Property PLC (“LMP”) in 2024. Rob has completed over £8 billion of commercial property asset and corporate transactions and was the Head of Real Estate for LXi REIT Advisors.

John is a founding partner of Farran Investments and is a fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS) and was a founding director of LXi REIT Advisors and co-fund manager of LXi REIT plc from February 2017 to 2024, when it merged with LMP.

During that time, John was primarily responsible for sourcing investment and disposal opportunities. LXi REIT plc acquired over 400 assets investing £4.1 billion of capital and sold £475 million of assets generating an average IRR of 20% per annum on those disposals.

John entered the commercial property market in 1987 and after qualifying as a chartered surveyor at Allsops moved to the investment team at Cushman & Wakefield. There he became a partner and spent the next 18 years advising a range of institutional investor clients on their UK acquisitions and disposals across the full range of real estate sub-sectors including retail (in and out of town), offices (London, Thames Valley and regional cities), logistics, and alternatives. John co-founded Osprey Equity Partners.

Tom is a Chartered Surveyor with 15 years’ experience. Tom joined Farran Investments in January 2025 as Senior Asset Manager with a primary focus on delivering strategic asset management initiatives across the managed platforms as well as originating and assisting in the underwriting and due diligence process for new investments and disposals.

Tom was previously Portfolio Manager at Custodian Capital for 10 years working primarily on the Investment Management mandate for Custodian Property Income REIT PLC, a main market commercial property investment fund with gross property assets of over £600m. Prior to that, Tom worked for leading property consultancy CBRE and qualified as a Chartered Surveyor with Workman LLP in London.

Brad joined Farran Investments in March 2025 as an Asset Manager. He is a Chartered Surveyor with eight years’ experience in Commercial Property. Brad works across the managed platforms delivering asset management initiatives and growing strategic tenant relationships.

He most recently spent two years at London and Cambridge Properties as an Asset Manager and then Senior Asset Manager where he managed a portfolio of approximately 40 Retail Assets. He previously worked for Key Land Capital and British Land where he gained a range of Asset Management, Property Management and Analysis experience across various sectors.