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International real
estate investors in the Netherlands 

APF International is an independent manager, fully owned by its management, of real estate funds and investments. The real estate landscape is constantly changing. To continuously keep excelling, this requires expertise and entrepreneurship based on solid principles.

In the early years, the primary focus was on initiating and managing private APF real estate funds. Since 2008, the investment management activities, based on mandates from foreign investors, have experienced strong growth and APF increasingly acts as a co-investor in real estate with an opportunistic character. This shows that APF is seen as a reliable and loyal partner who not only watches from the sidelines but is and keeps actively involved throughout the entire process. Business relations therefore describe us as creative, entrepreneurial, reliable, pleasant to work with and pragmatic. APF now has more than 1.4 billion euros worth of real estate under management. In addition, APF (re)development is involved as a development partner in various development initiatives.

Vision
In recent years, APF has successfully initiated, marketed and completed several real estate funds. Investing in homes and working environments, and this in the most pleasant living environments, is our top priority. Many years of experience and our constant analysis of the market, ensures we are able to identify opportunities at an early stage. Our countercyclical thinking gives us the lead and insight that we consider necessary to stay ahead in the market with an eye on the highest achievable and sustainable return. The success of APF International is evidence-based; in recent years we have successfully initiated, managed and sold real estate investments. Since its establishment, APF has been involved in more than 3 billion in investment transactions. Our goal is to stay ahead of trends and in response to further develop our vision.

This results in distinctive investment products with the aim that we (together with our investment partners) have in mind: well-considered investments with a real return risk ratio. Always with an eye for new opportunities.

Complex business challenges require integrated responses across markets, sectors and jurisdictions. Baker McKenzie’s client solutions provide seamless advice underpinned by in-depth practice and industry expertise, as well as premier local market knowledge. Baker McKenzie works with our clients in more than 70 offices worldwide to deliver solutions for a connected world.

The real estate team in Baker McKenzie’s Amsterdam office offers our clients a complete and comprehensive real estate service and provides an international platform of knowledge and expertise, whether in legal, notarial or tax matters. We are known as advisors to inbound investors, real estate investors, real estate financiers and funds regarding cross-border matters. We act for some of the largest real estate investors in the world and in a number of real estate segments, including residential, hotel and logistics. With buildings accounting for approximately 40% of global carbon emissions and increasing awareness of environmental vulnerability, building a sustainable future and creating long-term value is now more important than ever. Baker McKenzie offers a wide range of sustainable real estate solutions for investors and users.

BayernLB is one of the largest commercial banks in Germany. The BayernLB Group is one of the largest real estate financiers and asset managers in Germany. In real estate, a core business, the bank finances offices, retail, residential and logistics in the Netherlands. BayernLB’s customers range from property developers, private investors and housing associations to institutional fund initiators and asset managers. BayernLB has branches for its real estate clients in various locations in Germany, Europe and the US. 

BESIX Nederland translates the real estate development goals and wishes of clients into reality. Over the past decade, we have been involved in the construction of the top three high-rise buildings, not only in the Netherlands, but also in the Benelux.

We work with all our clients according to the Best of Project principle to achieve our goals of realizing large-scale complex projects that often include integrated utility functions and high-rise components in major cities in the Netherlands. We can operate here because we can count on the support of the BESIX Design Department in Brussels, which has grown into a global knowledge and experience center and is the basis for tomorrow’s innovation.

Because our vision and focus is recognized and acknowledged by our clients and partners, we are asked to work on prestigious projects such as the Grotiusplaats in the center of The Hague and the Terraced Tower on the Maas in Rotterdam. In Amsterdam, BESIX Nederland is the leading partner in the Sluishuis project on the banks of the IJ Lake. This project is being realized in collaboration with our venture capital partner BESIX RED. It represents the transformation of our own ambitions and dreams into an iconic new structure specifically designed to meet the contemporary housing needs of the local population.

The BESIX Group

Besix Netherlands is a subsidiary of the BESIX Group. A financially strong, international, entrepreneurial construction, property development and concession company originally founded in 1909, it has since outgrown its roots as a small Belgian construction company and grown into one of the world’s leading multi-service companies operating at the cutting edge of engineering and construction. The BESIX Group operates on four continents to drive international progress in construction technology and is a member of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) initiative.

To find out how BESIX can help you achieve your ambitions, contact us.

Catella Investment Management Benelux (CIMB) is a dynamic organization that is growing in the Benelux. We offer a wide range of real estate funds with both core residential and commercial strategies underpinned by sound and extensive research. Our investors are primarily institutional investors who participate via special German (KVG) and Luxembourg-domiciled vehicles.

Our goal is to optimize long-term risk-adjusted returns for our investors. Within the local markets of the Benelux, we are able to draw on our strong network of institutional investors, property managers, developers and brokers. We work in multidisciplinary teams in which each member takes responsibility for a part of the process. Central functions such as investment structuring, research and investor relations are organized at a European level while acquisition and asset management are conducted locally.

Catella Investment Management Benelux (CIMB) is the local branch that offers acquisitions and asset management for all Catella funds in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. We also actively participate in the initiation of new funds such as the Catella Dutch Residential Fund II and the Catella European Residential Fund III. CIMB currently has about €1.5 billion in assets under management in the Benelux and is anticipating an acquisition volume of approximately €300 million in 2021.

About Catella Investment Management Benelux (CIMB)
Catella Investment Management Benelux (CIMB) is part of the Catella group, an independent financial advisor, fund and asset manager with approximately 600 employees in 14 countries. Our parent Catella AB is listed on the Nasdaq Stockholm in the mid-cap segment.

DekaBank is the Wertpapierhaus (securities services provider) of the German Savings Banks Finance Group. Together with its subsidiaries it forms Deka Group, which has total customer assets of around EUR 400 billion (as at 30/06/2022) and around 4.8 million securities accounts, making it one of the largest securities services providers and real estate asset managers in Germany. It provides retail and institutional clients access to a wide range of investment products and services.

DekaBank is firmly anchored in the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe and designs its portfolio of products and services to meet the requirements of its shareholders and sales partners in the securities business.
The Deka Group’s global real estate expertise is pooled in its Real Estate Division. The two investment companies, Deka Immobilien Investment GmbH and WestInvest Gesellschaft für Investmentfonds mbH, manage and service around EUR 40 billion in real estate assets (as at 31/12/2019).

Deka Immobilien is the specialist for real estate investments within the Deka Group and is one of the largest globally active real estate investment companies in Germany.

Firmly anchored in the world’s largest financial alliance, the German Savings Bank Finance Group, we offer a wide range of real estate-based investment products and services, as well as loan funds, through our investment management companies Deka Immobilien Investment GmbH and WestInvest Gesellschaft für Investmentfonds mbH.

As an experienced real estate specialist, we possess proven expertise and comprehensive management competence for different market and investment cycles and have created sustained added value for our fund investors, tenants and business partners for more than five decades. Comprehensive market knowledge, broad investment experience, and a regional market presence and global network make us a strong partner.

Deutsche Hypo – NORD/LB Real Estate Finance is the centre of competence for the commercial real estate financing business of Norddeutsche Landesbank. The unit has a presence in Germany, the UK, France, Benelux, Spain, Poland and Austria and maintains its headquarters in Hanover. It also has offices in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich, as well as London, Paris, Warsaw, Amsterdam and Madrid. NORD/LB is one of Germany’s largest real estate financing institutes. As a public-sector institution, it is part of the Savings Banks Finance Group. The core business segments include business with corporate customers, special finance in the energy and infrastructure sector, aircraft finance, capital markets, joint business with savings banks and business involving private and commercial customers, including private banking.

We focus on direct business with professional real estate investors and on high-quality properties with a good tenant structure and stable cash flow. Asset types that we finance are office and commercial buildings, retail, hotels, multi-storey residential and logistics.

Besides traditional products, we also offer innovative approaches of commercial real estate finance. From a strategic cooperation with insurance companies and pension funds as well as the structuring of credit funds, we integrate financially strong financing partners. This is why we can also realize transactions of considerable magnitude.

DW Real Estate GmbH is an independent real estate investment company with offices in Munich, Frankfurt, Berlin and Amsterdam.

Recognising opportunities and acting in partnership – this motto forms the core of our corporate culture and the quintessence of our dealings with our business partners. Founded by Sven Dahlmeyer and Holger Wachter, DW Real Estate has been in existence since 2015. Our many years of experience and extensive network guarantee professional implementation of mandates and access to interesting projects. Our investor partners include English-speaking investment managers and funds, as well as German family offices and institutional investors such as pension funds and insurance companies.

Greystar is a leading, fully integrated real estate company offering expertise in investment management, development, and management of rental housing properties globally. Headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina, Greystar operates over an estimated $200 billion+ of real estate in nearly 200 markets globally including offices throughout the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific region.

Greystar manages and Greystar is the largest operator of apartments in the United States, managing nearly 794,000 units/beds, and has a robust institutional investment management platform with approximately $62 billion of assets under management, including over $26 billion of assets under development.

Greystar Continental Europe
In 2013 Greystar entered the UK market and has built up a substantial portfolio of high-quality rental properties by investing in student accommodation and newly-developed build-to-rent homes. Greystar Continental Europe was launched in 2015 with the acquisition of OurCampus Amsterdam Diemen in the Netherlands, a complex comprising 1022 student apartments with resident amenities and commercial areas fully operated on-site by a local team.

Mark Kuijpers joined Greystar in 2017 as Managing Director Netherlands, overseeing the Greystar Netherlands organization. The OurDomain portfolio resembles Greystar’s future living concept focusing on innovative, smart and inclusive residential projects. Each and every project integrates sustainability, smart mobility and sharing economy solutions for residents while keeping a strong focus on resident satisfaction.

Greystar leverages its extensive global and local market knowledge and expertise to provide solutions for all facets of urban residential investments. With an initial focus on projects in vibrant metropolitan areas including Berlin, Dublin, London, Vienna and Madrid with multi-generational living for both long-stay and short-stay.

Holland Immo Group is a Dutch provider of closed-end real estate investment funds for Dutch private investors, familly offices and institutional investors. It has initiated in total € 1,6 billion fund investments, was founded in 2001 and has now 20 years experience as an asset and investment managers. Asset classes under management are Dutch residential (including senior living and care), German warehouse centers and car parks in Europe.

The team consists of 31 professionals with extensive investment, financial, asset and commercial property management expertise.

The investment strategy is ‘core’ with focus on assets with underlying primary necessities (living, senior care, grocery anchored retail, inner-city parking facilities). With a clear focus on limited number of sectors to explore expertise and to team-up with developers and contructors for new investments. Portfolio divestments show that the buy and build strategy turned out to be succesful. Several small-scale quality portfolios were combined to large portfolios to sell to the market and optimize exit returns after the holding periods.

Holland Immo Group has an Alternative Investment Fund Manager (AIFM) licence from the Dutch Financial Markets Authority (AFM).

Intospace is a one-stop-platform for future proof warehousing solutions. Developing long lasting products that are going to be used by generations to come.

What we stand for and go for

1. Ambition | We are intospace and we love what we do. Our goal is not only to deliver on expectations, but to exceed them as well, and through this to raise the bar in logistics real estate.
2. Environment | We care about our planet, and we try to minimise our impact on the climate. We strive to limit our net CO2 emissions.
3. Social impact | We develop both to make our clients excel and for the common good. We involve people, communities, business and nature to create logistics centres that are sustainable and add value for all.
4. Innovation | Every project should be better than its predecessor. We don’t avoid challenges; we see them as opportunities to try something new and to become even better.
5. Integrity | We are transparent about what we do because, to be trustworthy, you have to be honest. What you see is what you get. We communicate openly with all our stakeholders. All the time.

NLV manages portfolios of direct Dutch real estate, exclusively for Dutch pension funds.

We believe that real estate asset management can be smarter, more efficient and more sustainable. It starts with an in-depth knowledge of the Dutch real estate market. From that basis, we combine our expertise in pension funds, a data-driven approach and a culture of continuous improvement. In this way, we use real estate as a driver for both financial and social returns.

What we focus on:
• For pension participants: A good risk-weighted return in the long term.
• For tenants: A pleasant place to live, work and shop.
• For society: Responsible choices that improve living environments.

We’re an international, full-service legal practice and our goal is simple: to help our clients and our people succeed in tomorrow’s world.

In a business environment that’s facing new digital, economic, political and environmental challenges, we help our clients to gain competitive advantage by providing commercially focused insights and legal services.

Our worldwide presence with offices in 26 locations across Europe, Asia and the US provides endless connections, knowledge and expertise. Within our core sectors and service lines*, our clients range from market leaders to fast-growth companies.

Our structure and approach ensures we’re experts in the sectors our clients work in and we understand the issues they face. We believe that the more we understand the big picture, the more we can provide positive and insightful solutions across the spectrum of advisory, litigation and transactional services.

But we don’t stop at being experts. We believe in building diverse, enduring and rewarding relationships. Our clients and our people tell us that we have a strongly ingrained, genuinely differentiated approach that’s unstuffy and easy to work with. It’s what makes us different to other law firms and helps us to work in partnership with our clients and connect the dots in complex matters with smart solutions.

*Our service lines are: Real Estate & Infrastructure, Banking & Finance, Corporate M&A, Employment, Pensions & Incentives, Financial Regulatory, Tax, Litigation & Arbitration, Tech, Media & Comms and Corporate Notary.
Our core sectors are: The Built Environment, Energy & Utilities, Financial Services, Life Sciences & Healthcare, Mobility & Infrastructure, Retail & Consumer, Tech, Media & Comms and Workforce Solutions.

Straightforward, and classic with a modern twist. That is Whitewood. With ‘space to cultivate ambition’ as our mantra.

How can we cultivate the ambition of our clients?
As a local partner in property and asset management, we make the needs of investors and the wants of tenants come together. As a “middle man” we reduce risks when it comes to investments and increase happiness when it comes to tenancy. We’re hoping to change the methodology behind urban renewal by working cohesively with both tenants and investors. By renovating and revitalizing existing buildings and seeking out interesting people to fill them, the cityscape gains another star on the map, portfolios gain a star on the page and companies thrive in fully tailored office spaces.

How do we do it?
We not only manage properties and assets but we also handle renovations, interior design, administration and concierge services. With a team of experts ranging from engineers to architects, to customer service and maintenance specialists, there is always someone solving problems or coming up with new ideas. When you work with us, gone are the days of miscommunication in property and asset management.

Why do we do it?
To be a local partner for international investors, one must not only be local but also be a real partner. We make investments alongside our partners to create meaningful new workspaces and logistic spaces in Belgium and the Netherlands. Being a catalyst for the types of projects that really change the atmosphere of the city we’re working in, is a great source of pride for all of us at Whitewood. Business doesn’t have to be dull, and we promise it won’t be when you’re working with us.