title: London & Regional Properties
text: # London & Regional Properties
  
  London & Regional Properties (L&R) is a private real estate and leisure investment firm based in London, United Kingdom. It is one of the largest privately held principal investors in Europe, performing private equity style investments in direct property and asset-backed operating businesses.
  
  L&R was founded in 1987 by billionaire brothers Richard Livingstone, a chartered surveyor, and Ian, a former optometrist, who are described by the Irish Independent as "secretive". The firm's AuM is in the upwards of £9 billion. L&R has business interests in the United Kingdom, Europe, and the Americas
  
  ## Portfolio
  
  The company's portfolio includes:
  
  ### Investments
  
  * Atlas Hotels, a hotel real estate and operating company with 46 limited service hotels across the UK
  * David Lloyd Leisure, a gym and health club company with 85 locations across the UK and Europe
  * London Hilton on Park Lane
  * The Trafalgar St. James London
  * The Lensbury
  * The Empire, Leicester Square
  * General Healthcare Group, the UK's leading independent health provider with 67 hospitals
  * Atu's real estate portfolio of 271 assets located in Germany
  * Diageo's head office in London WC1
  * 55 Baker Street, site of Marks & Spencer's former head office
  * 90 care homes, formerly managed by Southern Cross until 2011, to be managed by Orchard Care Homes in the North and Minster in the South-East
  * Cliveden, purchased from the collapsed Von Essen Hotels group in February 2012. The Livingstones withdrew from parallel negotiations to buy the Royal Crescent hotel.
  * Crowne Plaza hotel in Cambridge was bought for more than €45m from the former Sean Quinn Group in August 2012.
  * A development of 750 apartments with hotel and leisure facilities at Greenwich Peninsula
  * The Panama Pacifico, a US$700 million mini-city on the banks of the Panama Canal
  