Meet the Judges
NJ Advisory
Founder
Nada Jarnaz is a real estate finance specialist focused on the UK living and operational real estate sectors, including Build-to-Rent, PBSA, co-living, serviced apartments, hotels, care homes and retirement living.
She practised as a banking and finance lawyer from 2005 to 2023, during which time she led the Banking team as Partner and Head of Banking at Howard Kennedy, advising lenders, sponsors and institutional investors on complex real estate finance transactions across senior, mezzanine and structured capital facilities.
Following her legal career, she moved into real estate lending and held a senior origination role at Maslow Capital, where she structured and executed development and investment facilities across operational residential and hospitality platforms nationwide.
Her combined legal and lender-side experience provides a detailed understanding of how operational real estate assets are structured, financed and delivered in practice. As a judge for the Serviced Apartment News Awards, she brings a commercially rigorous and delivery-focused perspective to evaluating evolving living-sector platforms.