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Anna Christou

Senior Associate
Real Estate Finance
Practice areas:
Expertise includes:
  • Bridging and Term Lending
  • Real Estate Finance
Anna Says:
“I stay one step ahead to preempt any hurdles and find solutions to ensure matters progress seamlessly. I create a collaborative ‘can do’ attitude across all parties involved in every deal, in order to yield the best results”

Meet Anna

I am a Senior Associate in the Real Estate Finance Department having joined Lawrence Stephens in 2011. 

I have a wealth of experience acting for leading UK buy-to-let lenders, bridging lenders, challenger banks and building societies, dealing with both regulated and unregulated loans on commercial and residential property portfolios.

I am by nature a people person. I build strong relationships with my clients by investing time in getting to know them and their business needs, thereby ensuring that my advice is always commercial, practical, and forward-thinking.

I work closely with brokers and other professionals on every deal as I believe that collaboration and clear communication are the key to efficiency, consistency and maintaining an excellent reputation in the long term.

Whilst I enjoy the thrill of completing complex deals to tight timescales, I am also invested in supporting my clients on a broader level be it through improving legal understanding with regular seminars or being agile in my approach and style to support rapid growth.

Outside of work, I am kept busy by my three amazing daughters and their social calendars. I love cooking, baking and fitness.

Experience highlights 

  • Acting for a buy-to-let lender on a £7million, loan secured over 10 new build flats.
  • Being a key member of the team that assisted a banking client grow a loan book from £60million to £2.5billion in a little under three years. 
  • Acting for borrower on an £8.5million refinancing of a site in central London in a matter of days.
  • Acting for borrower on an £18million refinancing of a portfolio of 120 residential properties

"Having worked with Anna for a number of years, I have no hesitation in saying that I have always found her to be kind, knowledgeable, thorough and professional. Real estate finance transactions are often very stressful and working with someone like Anna, when you know you will not only get speedy responses and timely updates but also a transparent and commercial view on things, can make all the difference. Anna’s attitude to overcome problems and provide balanced advice regardless of the size and complexity of the transaction is truly second to none."

Asim Shirwani, CCO Lendhub