Telereal Trillium is one of the leading Commercial and Investment Portfolio Real Estate firms in the United Kingdom. The company has significantly grown under the leadership of Graham Edwards in the last 15 years. The company was officially founded in 2001 as part of a property outsourcing that transferred significant assets from British Telecomholdings to the newly created Telereal Trillium.
The new company started its portfolio with vast holdings from this newly formed partnership. The main goal of the Telereal Trillium was a focus of building up property values by creating partnerships with other companies to enhance the potential and resources of each individual property within the new portfolio. The partnership with British Telecomholdings now known as BT, was slated to be a 30-year working partnership to advance the holdings, assets and value of the properties within its portfolio. The deal gave its CEO Graham Edwards control of a vast wealth of UK properties. In fact, Trillium acquired a total of 6,700 properties to manage and control with a total floor area of 59.2 million square feet. The deal was worth a total of the £2.38 billion.
Telereal Trillium’s Redevelopment Plan
The focus over the years has been to allow BT to free up some of their investment capital in their holdings and allow Telereal Trillium to redevelop some of their assets. In doing so Edwards could gain value from these properties by new development. Under the guidance of Edwards, they have been able to create a more strategic asset management and development plan of all of the BT properties slated as part of the deal.
The partnership has proved very successful for both parties. Edwards, who was a student of Cambridge in Economics took his position at Telereal Trillium with the intention of building on his previous years of skills he acquired as the Chief Investment Officer at Talisman Global Asset Management. While there he built the company’s assets to nearly £1 billion. He also worked directly with the BT Group as the Head of Finance in their Property Department. Through Graham Edward’s well-placed investments and redevelopment, both companies have gained a significant net value of their property holdings.