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Hilltop Property Partners

Rebuilding the Regional Housing Model

Hilltop Property Partners

Rebuilding the Regional Housing Model

  • Capital discipline
  • Strategic partnership
  • Long-term living environments
  • Capital discipline
  • Strategic partnership
  • Long-term living environments

Capital discipline

Strategic partnership

Long-term living environments

Rebuilding the Regional Housing Model

  • Capital discipline
  • Strategic partnership
  • Long-term living environments

Most capital chases transactions. We build platforms for disciplined growth.

Hilltop Property Partners is a highly experienced delivery partner and investment manager in the real estate living sector. We link opportunity and capital to deliver institutional-grade residential assets designed for scale and long-term value. 

  • Capital discipline
  • Strategic partnership
  • Long-term living environments

Rebuilding the Regional Housing Model

Most capital chases transactions. We build platforms for disciplined growth.

Hilltop Property Partners is a highly experienced delivery partner and investment manager in the real estate living sector. We link opportunity and capital to deliver institutional-grade residential assets designed for scale and long-term value. 

The Regional Housing Opportunity

The regional housing market is structurally fragmented. Liquidity constraints, planning friction, and under-capitalised balance sheets suppress growth — even where deep pipeline and genuine operator capability exist.

Hilltop Property Partners rebuilds that model. We bring institutional capital and equity partnerships to regional operators who have the land, the relationships, and the execution track record — but need the platform architecture to scale.

Housing delivery is a systems problem. We provide the system.

What we do

Delivery Partner and GP, linking opportunity and capital for the delivery of BTR assets, overseeing and executing deals from A (Acquisition) to Z (Zenith, maximum value for investor)

Services areas:

  • Deal Sourcing: Sourcing deals in-house through JV with Debt Advisory business of Hilltop Capital Partners and principals’ extensive industry network
  • Execution: Thorough deal underwriting and due diligence, structuring with landowners in straight takeouts or JVs, contract and terms negotiations
  • Capitalisation: Partnering with Investors in equity co-invest structures and placing construction and stabilised debt through Hilltop Capital Partners
  • Development and Delivery: design oversight, development management, placing and overseeing construction contractors, quality control and handover
  • Lease up and stabilisation: appointing best in class 3rd party property managers, aligning and incentivising through performance-linked KPIs
  • Exit – the Zenith: Straight asset sale of stabilised income-generating BTR asset, or aggregation of supra-regional portfolio, attracting Core capital and maximising value generation for the investor

The Squeezed Middle

We Provide What Regional Operators Actually Need

Cost Discipline

Institutional rigour applied to every stage — land, build, and exit.

Planning Expertise

Local knowledge, regional relationships, and proven consent track records.

Operational Depth

Embedded management that understands the market from the ground up.

Capital Alignment

Long-term partners whose horizon matches the development cycle.

"Fragmentation is not a housing strategy. Platform scale is."

Our Track Record

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Meet Our Professionals

Our team brings a wealth of experience and knowledge tailored to the BTR sector
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Paul Oberschneider

Chairman

30-year track record in property development, having developed over £1 billion across UK and Europe.

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Michela Hancock

Chief Executive Officer

Founder & CEO with deep BTR leadership experience across Greystar, Grainger, and Bozzuto.

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Tiger Craft

Chief Operating Officer

20+ years in financial markets, including portfolio management at GLG Partners and roles at Fortress and Credit Suisse.

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Meiko Savard

Chief Investment Officer

10+ years in UK BTR, having executed over 8,000 BTR units and £6bn in institutional capital.

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Alexander Baldwin

Head of Investment Research

Four years in sales and business development across legal, events, and financial analytics sectors.

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News

Feb 18th, 2026

Seed Portfolio Secured for UK BTR Platform

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Jan 9th, 2026

Strategic Expansion into Key Regional Cities

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Dec 14th, 2026

250-Unit BTR Acquisition Completed

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Oct 9th, 2026

Institutional JV Formed to Scale Pipeline

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Our Track Record

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What Our Clients Say

Here’s what our clients appreciate about our services.
“Working with this firm was a game changer for our investment strategy. Their insights into the BTR sector helped maximize our returns and manage risks effectively.”
John Mathews
John Mathews
“Their approach to asset management truly stands out. The team’s professionalism and dedication built the trust that we needed in our partnership.”
Andrew Morrison
Andrew Morrison
“Their expertise in navigating the Build-to-Rent sector offered us a clear advantage. We felt supported every step of the way.”
Alice Johnson
Alice Johnson
“The transparency and integrity of this firm made all the difference. They truly care about their clients’ success.”
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Michael Harris

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Paul Oberschneider

Chairman

Paul Oberschneider is an investment professional with a 30-year successful track record in property development, asset management and financial structuring. He has developed over £1 billion in the UK and Continental European real estate markets.

In the early 1990s, Paul built the credit department of a major eastern European bank, from one to 20 people. From 1993 he established one of the largest fully-integrated real estate advisory and investment businesses in Central and Eastern Europe. This subsequently became one of the region’s largest commercial property developers.

Until 2010, Paul was Chairman for Hauser-Oberschneider, working with international property and private equity firms like Apollo, Grainger PLC and Citigroup Property Advisors. The company pioneered the construction and financing of “western” styled apartments, retail hypermarkets and hotel properties across Central and Eastern Europe.

In 2010, Paul became an investor in and Chairman of London-based healthy fast food retailer, Vital Ingredient. He sold his stake in 2016 as part of a management buyout deal by private equity firm, LDC.

Michela Hancock

Chief Executive Officer

Michela Hancock is the Chief Executive Officer and a founder of Hilltop Property Partners, a UK-based firm focused on addressing the under-supplied rental housing market through attainably priced, amenity light, professionally managed homes. Before establishing Hilltop, she held senior leadership roles in the Build-to-Rent sector, most recently as Managing Director for Greystar Europe, overseeing their third-party platform and strategic partnerships. Her prior roles included Director at Grainger and working on a pipeline of BTR developments at The Bozzuto Group in Washington D.C.

Michela is a board member of CREFC and Real Estate Balance, and she holds a Master of Science in Real Estate Development from Johns Hopkins University.

Tiger Craft

Chief Operating Officer

Tiger Craft has over 20 years of experience in financial markets. From 2013 – 2018 he was a Portfolio Manager at GLG Partners, responsible for managing a long/short equity portfolio with a peak value of approx. $650m.

Prior to GLG, Tiger was Vice President and then Managing Director at Fortress Investment Group (2007-2013) in the Liquid Markets and Private Equity divisions.

Before joining Fortress, Tiger was an Analyst and Portfolio Manager at Rubicon Fund Management (2004-2007), a leading global macro fund. He specialised in direct, structured investments in early-stage companies.

Tiger started his career at Credit Suisse First Boston in 1999 in the Investment Banking division, where he focused on M&A advisory and capital raising for healthcare companies in the U.S. and Europe.

Meiko Savard

Chief Investment Officer

Meiko Savard is Chief Investment Officer at Hilltop Property Partners, leading investment strategy, deal execution and capitalisation of Build-to-Rent (BTR) developments. Meiko has more than 10 years’ experience in the UK BTR market through his tenures at Greystar and Telford Homes (Trammell Crow Company), having executed more than 8,000 BTR units, and 10,000 PBSA beds across the UK, a total of £6bn in partnership with global institutional capital.

Prior to joining Hilltop Property Partners, Meiko was Head of Investment at Telford Homes, Trammell Crow Company’s market entry into UK BTR. During his 5-year tenure he set up an investment function to reposition the business away from traditional housebuilding to an institutional BTR developer. He was responsible for all deal underwriting, portfolio management of owned assets, Investment Committee engagements and overseeing deal risk management.

Before joining Telford, Meiko spent 5 years at Greystar, where he was one of the earliest team members of Greystar’s first international venture. Meiko worked on the acquisition of 10,000 PBSA beds in portfolios across the UK, before joining the newly established development function led by Michela Hancock. For the following 4 years Meiko served as the dedicated investment lead for Greystar’s UK BTR development pipeline. His experience spans from smaller scale forward funding deals with UK housebuilders to large-scale ground-up regeneration schemes of >2,000 units at Greenford Quay in London.

Meiko started his career in Private Equity at Ufenau Capital in Zurich, Switzerland.

He holds an MSc in Accounting and Finance from Durham University and a BSc in Business Administration from the University of Mannheim, Germany.

Alexander Baldwin

Head of Investment Research

Alexander is the Head of Investment Research at Hilltop Property Partners, working on deal origination, analysing the development market and providing initial due diligence prior to site acquisition. Prior to working at Hilltop, he ran due diligence on law firms for US Fortune 500 companies looking for legal representation in niche geographies and provincial regions globally for dispute resolution and litigation.

Before this, he held roles at Hyve Group and at Quant Insight, as a CRM manager building out internal CRMs and integrating HubSpot into their workflows.

Pre-covid, Alexander worked in the music industry, signed with a major label, he toured with artists with a combined 3 Billion+ online streams.