Hugh Fraser

Hugh Fraser is a Director and is Head of Capital Markets for M7 Real Estate. He is responsible for all debt capital market activities for the firm's European investments, including asset-level and fund/corporate-level activity, interest rate derivatives and the acquisition of non-performing loans and distressed real estate corporates.

Since co-founding the company in 2009, he has helped close over 25 transactions valued at more than €2 billion in nine different countries across Europe.

Prior to joining M7 Real Estate, Hugh worked at GPT Halverton, where he was Head of Debt. He was responsible for the management of all issues in relation to circa €1.4 billion of debt across eight pan-European funds. Before that, he was a Director in the European real estate debt capital markets team at Eurohypo AG, where he was responsible for the origination, structuring and execution of balance sheet and capital markets lending totaling more than €2.0 billion. He also worked at Fitch Ratings where he was a senior member of the European Commercial Mortgage Backed Securitisation team.

Hugh has more than 20 years experience in real estate finance across Europe and Australia.

Hugh received a Bachelor of Applied Science (Land Economics) and a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.