Arrow Global’s all-weather strategy: Jay Patel on mid-market RE opportunities
In an interview with the GRI Institute, Jay Patel, Managing Director, Real Estate at Arrow Global, outlines how the firm’s local platform model underpins an “all-weather” strategy for European mid-market real estate. Operating across 24 owned platforms and a team of 4,700 professionals, Arrow combines granular, on-the-ground sourcing with institutional discipline to capture opportunities often overlooked by larger managers.
Jay explains how Arrow’s embedded local presence generates proprietary deal flow and converts Europe’s structural complexity into consistent outperformance. The firm’s ability to aggregate smaller, off-market transactions enables diversification, speed and pricing power across cycles, from credit to equity. Investing in talent and local insight, Jay highlights, is key to sustaining Arrow’s long-term edge.
“We’ve taken something cyclical in nature and created an all-weather strategy.”
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Jay Patel
Managing Director, Real Estate
Jay joined Arrow in 2023 and is a Managing Director in the Investment Team. He has over 19 years of experience and has invested over €1.5bn in granular real estate transactions spanning traditional equity, distressed credit and special situations.
Prior to joining Arrow, Jay spent 6 years working for Strategic Value Partners where he was a leading figure in building their real estate distressed credit business in Europe. Prior to this, he spent 6 years working for EQT (formerly Wainbridge) leading their opportunistic equity strategy in the UK. Jay also has experience in restructuring and M&A advisory from earlier in his career at Eurohypo and KPMG.
He graduated from Imperial College with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics.