Tag: Triuva

Patrizia is On The Hunt for New Purchases in Bilbao, Sevilla & Valencia

10 December 2018 – Eje Prime

Patrizia Immobilien is confirming its interest in the Iberian real estate market. The German investment manager, which has been present in Spain and Portugal since 2015, has set itself the short-term objective of entering Bilbao, Sevilla, Valencia and Oporto, through the purchase of new assets, according to comments made by Borja Goday, the Director General of the company in the Iberian Peninsula, speaking to Eje Prime.

Until now, the company has invested €870 million in total in real estate in the Spanish and Portuguese markets. Madrid, Barcelona, Málaga and Lisbon are the cities in which Patrizia is already present, “with minimum investments of €15 million but where that figure could exceed €500 million if the operation is worth it”, explained the executive.

In fact, the manager participated in the process to acquire one of the office buildings that comprise the Cuatro Torres Business Area in Madrid. Moreover, the company not only invests in the office segment, it is also committed to other markets such as the residential, retail, hotel, logistics and alternative asset segments (including student halls, complexes for the elderly and parking spaces).

Currently, Patrizia’s asset portfolio in Spain includes Serrano 90, located on Madrid’s golden mile and Gran Vía 21, also in the Spanish capital, which houses a hotel and a retail premise. Nevertheless, the latest major operation by the manager on the peninsula was the purchase of an industrial plot spanning 66,424 m2 in Toledo for €37.5 million. The other three logistics platforms that the company owns in Spain are located in Madrid and Barcelona.

Patrizia and its great interest in Spanish property

With its headquarters in Madrid and a staff of eleven, Patrizia arrived in Spain just three years ago. “At the end of 2017, we purchased Triuva and Rockspring, two companies that already owned assets on the peninsula”, explained Goday, who added that “the rapid growth of the group in both the Spanish and Portuguese markets is due to those two acquisitions”.

“Spain is still an attractive market, we still have demand and that is why we are launching new operations on such a frequent basis”, said the director. Since the beginning of the year, the manager has been on the hunt for capital from Spanish institutional investors, although, as Goday explains, it is not an easy task, since “they do not invest from one day to the next”.

One of Patrizia’s other plans on the peninsula is to strengthen its presence in the rental market. “It is a segment that we like a lot and for that reason, if we find an appropriate residential or office building, then we would not rule out buying it”, explained the executive. Nor does the group rule out alliances with Socimis or the acquisition of a property developer to grow in the Spanish residential sector. In this sense, Goday says that “a good opportunity has not presented itself yet” and that “it would all depend on the quality and location of the land that they own”.

Patrizia is currently present in more than twenty European countries, including, besides Spain and Portugal, important markets such as Italy, France, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium and Luxembourg. The group’s main focus of activity is Germany, where it launched its activity 32 years ago and where it is a listed company (…).

Original story: Eje Prime (by B. Seijo)

Translation: Carmel Drake

Triuva Wants to Spend €100M in Spain Following Its Integration into Patrizia

3 April 2018 – Eje Prime

The German fund Triuva is looking for opportunities in Spain. The company, which has just completed its integration into another German real estate company, Patrizia, is going to allocate around €100 million to the acquisition of new assets in the Spanish market. The group is currently finalising the renovation of a building on Calle Serrano, 90 in Madrid, and has already leased the 6,300 m2 of retail and office space to Maisons du Monde and Natixis, respectively.

The fund is still hungry for new assets in Spain, and so it is considering the acquisition of office buildings, commercial assets and even hotels. Currently, the Spanish arm of Triuva is fully integrated into the Spanish business of Patrizia, which has its offices on the Madrilenian street Calle Génova.

Patrizia purchased the entire Triuva business in November last year, whereby creating a real estate giant of more than €30 billion. Triuva manages some forty funds around the world and has teamed up with more than eighty institutional investors in recent years.

Triuva has around 270 assets under management, worth €9.7 billion. In Spain, the fund owns three properties in prime locations. The first, acquired during the first quarter of 2015 for €70 million, is located on Calle Preciados, 4, and is leased to the fashion chain Sfera, itself owned by the Madrid-based department store group El Corte Inglés.

Last year, the fund acquired the Adidas flagship store located on Gran Vía, 21, also in Madrid, which had been owned until then by Iberfin Capital, which is in turn, owned by Medcap Real Estate. The consideration paid for that operation was not disclosed (…).

Serrano 90, its latest project 

The Serrano 90 building, also owned by Triuva, is located in the heart of Madrid’s golden mile. 70% of its total available space is allocated to offices and the remaining 30% to commercial use; the property also has a parking lot on its lower floors. According to sources in the sector, the fund has spent around €10 million on the renovation of the asset.

At the beginning of this year, Triuva closed the rental of 6,300 m2 of retail and office space. The retail premises have been leased to the French firm Maisons du Monde, which is going to open its first flagship high street store in Madrid, to accompany the store it already has in central Barcelona.

The household furniture and accessories firm is going to lease 1,860 m2 of space in the building spread over three floors (…). Similarly, the property is going to house the headquarters of Natixis, a French corporate and investment bank, whose offices are currently located in Recoletos. Triuva and the banking institution have signed a rental agreement for 2,940 m2 of office space, as well as the terrace and 34 parking spaces in the Serrano 90 building.

Original story: Eje Prime

Translation: Carmel Drake

Patrizia Wants to Buy a Property Developer to Become Rental Giant in Spain

8 February 2018 – El Economista

Over the last six months, the German real estate fund manager Patrizia has closed three acquisitions that have turned it into the new property giant in Europe, with assets under management worth around €40 billion.

With a solid structure, the firm is pushing ahead with its plans to grow in Spain through the purchase of a property developer. “A few months ago, we were analysing two operations. We are still looking and would love to close something this year, because we have the funds and the desire”, explained Borja Goday (pictured above), Head of Patrizia Immobilien in Spain, who added that what he is looking for is “a company that is well-balanced in terms of the team and its bank of land”.

“Much of the development that we would be looking to carry out would be focused on homes for rent”, highlighted the director, who added that Patrizia’s objective is to become one of the major players in the rental market in the country.

In fact, the fund manager already has extensive experience in the residential market in some of Europe’s main countries, where it manages the rental of more than 50,000 homes.

In Spain, this business is still emerging, and there are just three large companies operating. “We want to introduce the institutional model that already works so well in other European markets, such as in Germany, and we are backing this segment because we think that the business in Spain will have an institutional base in 10 or 20 years”, explains Goday, who firmly believes that the 23% of the population that currently chooses to rent a home in Spain will grow significantly over the coming years.

Whilst it continues the search for a property developer, the fund manager will take its first steps into the residential rental market in Madrid, where it is finalising the acquisition of a property. “We are also negotiating the purchase of another building, which needs renovating, like we did with our project on Calle Claudio Coello 108, where there is just one home left for sale”, revealed Goday.

Investment strategy

The growth plans of the fund manager, which is finalising the process to integrate Rockspring, Triuva and the Danish firm SPI, are not based solely on the residential market.

“Our portfolio is very diversified, both geographically as well as by asset type, given that we have a presence in the hotel, office, high street retail and logistics segments”, said the director.

Following its recent acquisitions, Patrizia has established a portfolio worth around €1 billion in Spain and is positioning itself as an overseas real estate manager with one of the largest teams in the country, comprising 14 professionals.

“One of the major factors that differentiates Patrizia from other fund managers is that it does not invest in a country unless it has a local team with experience there”, stressed Goday.

“With these three operations, we have doubled our portfolio at the European level and we will now start to look more actively at the shopping centre segment, where we can add value”.

Moreover, the German firm, which works with investors from all over the world, wants to raise Spanish capital. “We are a wonderful partner for institutional investors and family offices who want to get involved in the real estate sector, since we give them the opportunity to also invest in Europe and to do so alongside a listed firm like Patrizia”.

Although the fund manager has doubled its volume of assets, it is committed to maintaining the same profile as always. “We are very comfortable closing operations of between €15 million and €100 million, because we think that that range is very well adapted to the reality of the current supply in the Spanish market”.

Original story: El Economista (by Alba Brualla)

Translation: Carmel Drake

Freo Buys An Office Building In Madrid For €15M

14 October 2016 – Expansión

The German fund Freo, which opened offices in Madrid and Barcelona at the end of last year with the aim of investing in the Spanish market, has completed its first purchase. The private equity manager has acquired an office building on Avenida de Manoteras in Madrid for €15 million. The property, known as Edificio Orion, used to be owned by the German fund manager Triuva, formerly known as IVG Institutional Funds.

The asset, constructed in 2001, is located at number 26 on the Madrilenian street and has a surface area of 7,300 sqm. According to sources in the real estate sector, the offices are fully occupied and currently house twelve tenants in total, including Whisbi Technologies, Sacyr, TPI Edita, Tento and several companies from the ACS Group. The operation will generate a return of 6% for the buyer.

Team

Freo is a private equity fund manager that also has its own investment vehicle. It was founded in Frankfurt (Germany) twenty years ago and has offices in all of Europe’s major cities.

Last year, Freo hired Daniel Mayans, former Director at GE Capital Real Estate in Spain, as the CEO of its Spanish subsidiary. It also appointed Óscar de Navas, who also came from the US multinational, as the Vice-President of Investment at Freo for the Spanish market. The firm’s purpose is to look for buildings such as Orion to add value to them, in terms of investment by renovating the offices, as well as in terms of returns by making improvements to the rental contracts.

Investment focus

That is the goal of the most international funds, which, given the shortage of assets in the most central areas of Madrid and Barcelona and the strong pressure to buy, are acquiring assets in more peripheral areas of Spain’s largest cities. Other funds that have recently made purchases on the Manoteras thoroughfare include: IBA Capital Partners, Axa Real Estate, Lone Star and Blackstone, as well as the Socimis Trajano Iberia and Merlin Properties.

The seller of the property in this case, the company formerly known as IVG Institutional Funds, which has been called Triuva since 2015, is the largest institutional real estate fund manager in Germany, with 45 funds in total. The subsidiary in Spain and Portugal manages assets worth €300 million, which have a combined surface area of 78,000 sqm.

Original story: Expansión (by Marisa Anglés)

Translation: Carmel Drake