Kevin Beirne, Octopus Real Estate
Kevin Beirne
Director, Head of Retirement
Octopus Real Estate

Kevin has over 30 years’ real estate experience and is an FCA Senior Manager, leading three Octopus Real Estate fund strategies. He joined ORE in 2018 as a member of the Management Team to head up senior living investment and sits on the Investment Committee. Kevin leads an award-winning senior living investment team who have delivered the Schroders/Octopus Retirement Living Fund (ReLF) 2019 and Senior Living Investment Partners (SLIP) with Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC) 2022. Both invest equity in development joint ventures with the UK’s highest quality integrated retirement community (IRC) operators with a combined Gross Development Value (GDV) of c£1.7bn. The team also manages the vertically integrated direct investment strategy via Rangeford Retirement Villages as well leading efforts to expand the IRC model into rental as a tenure, deploying £36m debt into Birchgrove in 2024, and Europe as a geography. Kevin was one of the founders of Associated Retirement Community Operators (ARCO), the trade body for IRCs, has served two terms as an advisory board member for the Homes and Communities Agency (now Homes England), and spent five years on the National Housing Federation’s development committee.