Recently launched Indurent brings together St Modwen Logistics and Industrials REIT
Julian Carey’s industrial experience started early. As a child, he remembers being taken around industrial estates by his father, Roger Carey, an industry grandee who was managing director at Slough Estates before going on to lead Industrious, which was sold to Brixton in 2004.
Carey says he tried to avoid following in his father’s footsteps, but after the market recovered following the financial crisis, it became clear that the industrial sector presented a compelling opportunity. Around the same time that Blackstone was also starting to focus more closely on the sector, Carey’s firm C2 Capital teamed up with Morgan Stanley Real Estate investing to launch a multi-let industrial landlord platform in early 2015. That was then sold to Stenprop two-and-a-half years later, marking the start of the listed company’s metamorphosis into Industrials REIT.