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Mobilising growth: UKREiiF 2026
The UK’s Real Estate Investment and Infrastructure Forum (UKREiiF) 2026 reinforced a powerful truth: the UK’s growth ambitions are not constrained by ideas or capital, but by how effectively we mobilise them together, at pace and at scale.
Read time: 7 mins Added: 03/07/26
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Davide Cleary: Lloyds has a long standing relationship with the housing sector. Be that across the house builders or the social housing and it's absolutely key that we step up to deliver now.
Paul Rickard: In a world where the conditions are probably more challenging than they've been in living memory. It's really important to focus on the optimism.
Lucian Cook: But on the flip side, we probably have the best planning environments in a generation.
Joe Mellings: How do we collaborate and work more effectively in partnerships to unlock viability?
Pete Cosmetatos: Lloyds is one of the banks that has been really good at thinking about that, collaborating with external businesses.
Jeremy Barker: We enjoy working with organisations like Lloyds because part of our role is to crowd in private capital. We've done some really exciting transactions with the bank.
Chris Sood-Nicholls: Well, we're working very closely with a number of the newly established PuFins, the public finance institutions. These are institutions that are looking to crowd in private capital at scale.
Nicola Haigh: We're delighted to be here at UKREiiF. We've got so many brilliant clients, prospects, advisers and industry experts. Where we’re able to talk around all different parts of the sector.
There's a clear buzz around sustainability, building more homes, regionalisation that we're really keen to be here to support.
Chinyelu Oranefo: You need to think about how you maximise your income and reduce your risk. Sustainability is the lens that you can use to do that.
Paul Rickard: Lloyds, for us for the last ten years, we wouldn't be here without them and that flexibility has genuinely unlocked schemes that would not have gone forward without that support.
Max Jones: We've had a tremendous event, and we're really excited about the outlook for UK infrastructure.
Key takeaways
Delivery at pace through strong partnerships
Across sessions, one theme stood out above all others: delivery at pace can be enabled through strong partnerships. From infrastructure to housing, innovation ecosystems to sustainable real estate, Lloyds’ pavilion demonstrated our role as a convener and a catalyst for action - bringing together partners from the public and private sector to help solve the complex challenges shaping the UK’s built environment.
The discussions underscored that sustainable, inclusive growth can be accelerated by building vibrant, place-based networks capable of unlocking outcomes no single organisation could achieve alone.
Growth requires ecosystems, not silos
A central insight from the week was the shift away from isolated projects towards place-based, interconnected ecosystems.
Universities, local authorities, private capital and communities all play a role in driving sustainable growth across regions. As highlighted in discussions on innovation infrastructure, “innovation is not just about R&D - it’s about people and places” requiring alignment across skills, finance, infrastructure and supply chains.
This “quadruple helix” model - public, private, education and community - was repeatedly cited as critical to delivering inclusive growth. Projects such as Newcastle Helix and Leeds Nexus demonstrated how combining hard infrastructure with strong collaboration can attract investment, create jobs and anchor regional economies.
Public-private collaboration: from concept to necessity
From large-scale infrastructure to regeneration projects, public-private collaboration is fundamental to unlocking growth.
Developers emphasised that success depends on aligning stakeholders across:
- Local and combined authorities
- Transport and utilities providers
- Private capital and developers
Without this alignment, projects can stall. With it, they accelerate.
Importantly, collaboration is evolving - from transactional relationships to long-term, trust-based partnerships with shared risk and shared outcomes. As one panellist noted, successful models are built on “shared risk… and a long-term vision that may take time to deliver returns.”
Delivery: the UK’s defining challenge and opportunity
Perhaps the most consistent message across all three days was that the UK has the ideas, talent and capital to drive significant growth, it now needs to deliver.
Key challenges include:
- The importance of policy and regulatory clarity
- Fragmented funding landscapes
- Skills and capacity gaps across regions
- Slow planning and development timelines
But there are signs of momentum.
From place-based investment strategies to innovation ecosystems and blended finance models, the foundations are being laid. The challenge and opportunity is to scale what works and replicate that across regions.
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