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Beds, Beds & Beyond!
Resilience, pricing, and long term trends on point?
- Get on Board! - Are living trends changing? Should investors go with the flow and diversify or stick to the status quo?
- Location, location, operation! - Is success dependent on service, operational and prime urban locations these days?
- Investor Appetite - Who's investing on what and where’s the value?
- Bid & Ask Spread - Are current interest rates leaving the market risk-off or resilience knows no bounds?
Discussion
Multifamily Rental
Hottest place to be or expensive cracks emerging?
Hospitality Needs Living
Is pricing and demand changing the hotel sector makeup?
Co & Flex Living Southern Europe
Best for International value seekers or too many local entry barriers?
Value Add & Opportunistic Deals
Elementary or enigmatic?
People & Place
Collaboration, ESG & serviced-driven assets for the win?
Net Zero BTR
Is there enough investor-friendly supply?
Next Level Hospitality Portfolios
AI + ESG = Value?
Student Housing
All hail the safety net or getting crowded?
UK Resi Funding Gap
It’s only illogical!
Fundraising for BTR
How much equity and how much debt to satisfy the capital stack?
Single Family Rental Capital & Demand
Backing or lacking?
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Some of the GRI Club Members
Alexi
Antolovich
Global Co-Head RE
Macquarie Principal Finance
Audrey
Klein
Partner
Spencer House Partners
Ben
Bianchi
Head of Europe, MD
Oaktree Capital Management
Cherine
Aboulzelof
Managing Director, Co-Head BGO Strategic Capital Partners
BentallGreenOak
Cristina
García-Peri
Managing Partner/ Director of Strategy and Corporate Development
Grupo Azora
Emanuele
Boni
Chairman
Riva Asset Management
Eric
Assimakopoulos
Founder & Managing Partner
Revetas Capital
Gavin
Neilan
Founder, co-Managing Partner & CIO, DFI
Deutsche Finance International
Hal
Shaw
Partner, Head of European Capital Solutions
KSL Capital Partners
Irene
Ryan
Managing Director, Head International Debt Asset Mgmt
Starwood Capital Group
Josef
Maximilian Vollmayr
Co-Founder and Managing Director
Limehome
Juan
Pepa
Stoneshield Capital
Loraine
Berry
VP Development UK, Europe & Middle East
Langham Hospitality Group
Margaret
Sweeney
CEO & Board Director
I•RES
MariaPia
Intini
Development & Investment Director Europe
Private Investments
Mauro
Savoia
Partner
Three Stars Capital
Nadav
Zohar
Chairman
LRC Group
Peter
Jun
Founder
ALMEA International
Peter
Noack
Managing Director
Zeitgeist Asset Management
Philip
C. Sauer
Managing Director Real Estate & Hotels
MABEL Capital
Philip
Grace
Chief Development Officer
Bob W
Philippe
Camus
CEO
Shaftesbury Asset Management Group
Randeesh
Sandhu
Co-Founder & CEO
Precede Capital Partners
Riccardo
Dallolio
MANAGING DIRECTOR & HEAD OF REALTY EUROPE
H.I.G Capital
Rossitsa
Koevska
Managing Director
Goldman Sachs Asset Management
Seth
Lieberman
Chairman
Kvalitena AB
Stan
Kubacek
Senior Managing Director
Heimstaden
Toni
Rossi
Director
Leponte
Alexi Antolovich
Global Co-Head REMacquarie Principal Finance
United Kingdom
Audrey Klein
PartnerSpencer House Partners
United Kingdom
Audrey Klein has held Head of Fundraising roles at several firms but is best known for starting the European business out of London for the Park Hill Real Estate Group, a Division of Blackstone, which she ran for 9 yrs. Prior to joining Park Hill, she ran her own business for 5 yrs marketing alternative asset funds across all asset classes to European investors comprised of pension funds, banks, family offices. She is a graduate of Northwestern University's Kellogg School of business where she received an MBA, and is also a graduate of Emory University with a degree in Economics. She is a Partner at Spencer House Partners (www.spencerhousepartners.com).
Ben Bianchi
Head of Europe, MDOaktree Capital Management
USA
Managing Director and Co-Portfolio Manager, Oaktree Capital Mr. Bianchi is a managing director and Head of Europe for Oaktree’s Real Estate group. Mr. Bianchi joined Oaktree in 2014 and has been involved in the investment and management of its real estate funds in the United States and Europe throughout his time at the firm. Prior to joining Oaktree, Mr. Bianchi worked for Deutsche Bank AG where he held senior positions in the firm’s London, Hong Kong and New York-based real estate divisions. Before joining Deutsche Bank, Mr. Bianchi was employed by Moore Capital's MSVP Japan where he served as a senior vice president. He began his career as an associate in Goldman Sachs's Archon Group in the U.S. and Asia.
Cherine Aboulzelof
Managing Director, Co-Head BGO Strategic Capital PartnersBentallGreenOak
USA
Cherine Aboulzelof is Managing Director, Global Co-Head for BentallGreenOak's Strategic Capital Partners ("BGO SCP") and sits on its global investment committee. BGO SCP provides strategic capital by way of asset and portfolio recapitalisations, structured transactions, co investments and fund investments to GPs. Prior to joining BGO SCP platform in 2017, she has been responsible for Europe investments with two different real estate investment managers, investing across a number of real estate sectors in Europe between 2005 and 2017. She started her career in investment banking with Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley. She holds an M.B.A from INSEAD and a graduate degree from EM Lyon. She is a French, British and Lebanese citizen.
Cristina García-Peri
Managing Partner/ Director of Strategy and Corporate DevelopmentGrupo Azora
Spain
Cristina García-Peri is Senior Partner and Head of Strategy and Corporate Development for the Azora Group. Prior to joining Azora in 2011, she worked for 16 years in the investment- banking sector at both Merrill Lynch (2 years) and JP Morgan (14 years), where she held various positions across M&A and Equity Capital Markets, and for 10 year, she was Managing Director responsible for Corporate Equity Derivatives for EMEA as well as Equity Capital Markets for Spain and Portugal. Cristina holds a bachelor degree in Economics from ICADE (Spain) and an MBA from Harvard Business School (USA). Cristina is Board Member at Bankinter, a Spanish IBEX 35 banking institution, where she Chairs the Nominations and Sustainability Committee.
Emanuele Boni
ChairmanRiva Asset Management
Luxembourg
Emanuele is the Chairman of Riva Asset Management. Riva is a Luxemburg regulated, real estate investment company with active operations in Germany, Portugal, Switzerland and Italy. Riva focuses predominantly on mixed-use developments, high-end residential projects and urban regeneration. It is also currently developing an interest in advanced senior living solutions.
Until March 2022 Emanuele Boni was also CEO and Board Director of CDP Immobiliare. CDP Immobiliare is 100% owned by Cassa Depositi e Prestiti SpA and it is one of the major players in the Italian real estate market. Its mandate is to create value, sell and create joint ventures with private sector partners, whilst promoting urban regeneration across its country-wide real es
Eric Assimakopoulos
Founder & Managing PartnerRevetas Capital
United Kingdom
Eric has over 22 years of experience in the real estate sector, principally as a developer and investor. He is a US national and spent the majority of the last 15 years in Europe, initially investing in Belgium, Germany, and the Slovak Republic. Eric has completed over €1 billion of real estate transactions throughout US and Europe. In 2002, he launched and built Bifrost Investment Group (predecessor to Revetas Capital) into a leading CEE investment and asset manager. Since 2009, he has actively developed a platform to restructure and recapitalise distressed real estate in CEE, leading to the formation of Revetas Capital. Since then, Eric successfully restructured and recapitalised over €600 million worth of real estate assets in the region
Gavin Neilan
Founder, co-Managing Partner & CIO, DFIDeutsche Finance International
United Kingdom
Gavin Neilan is the Founder, Co-Managing Partner and CIO of Deutsche Finance International (DFI) a pan-European real estate private equity platform with over €4 billion AUM and offices in London, Munich, Madrid and Luxembourg. The firm focuses on thematic value add and opportunistic strategies investing through discretionary pan-European funds, co-investment vehicles and separate managed accounts. Gavin has 20+ years’ of industry experience, having been involved in more than €10 billion of transactions across Europe, America and Emerging Markets. He is a qualified lawyer, holds an MBA from INSEAD and studied law at UCL. DFI is part of Deutsche Finance Group, a privately owned global real estate investment company with over €11 billion AUM.
Hal Shaw
Partner, Head of European Capital SolutionsKSL Capital Partners
United Kingdom
Hal Shaw is a Partner at KSL Capital Partners where he serves as Head of European Capital Solutions and
is based out of London. Hal joined KSL in 2007 as a Summer Associate with the Private Equity Team.
During his time at KSL, Hal has invested across the capital structure ranging from senior and mezzanine
debt originations to acquisitions and has played a lead role in the formation and subsequent growth of
KSL’s Capital Solutions strategies. Hal is a member of KSL’s Equity Investment Committee, Credit
Investment Committee and Tactical Opportunities Investment Committee.
Irene Ryan
Managing Director, Head International Debt Asset MgmtStarwood Capital Group
United Kingdom
Irene Ryan is a Managing Director at Starwood Capital Group, London office and is responsible for the asset management of debt investments by Starwood’s lending platform in Europe Since joining Starwood Capital in 2013, Ms. Ryan has managed the portfolio of loans held across multi-asset classes and European jurisdictions originated by Starwood Property Trust (NYSE: STWD) and Starwood European Finance Real Estate Finance (SWEF: LN). Prior to joining Starwood Capital Group, Ms. Ryan worked in a real estate focussed bank in London, holding a variety of lending roles from origination to loan restructuring and recovery. Before that, she gained her chartered accountancy qualification (ACA) while working at KPMG in Ireland.
Josef Maximilian Vollmayr
Co-Founder and Managing DirectorLimehome
Germany
Dr. Josef Vollmayr is Co-Founder and Managing Director of limehome, a 2018 founded, radically tech-driven hospitality concept. Within less than 2 years the company grew to over 120 employees, operates around 100 locations in Germany, Austria, Spain and Netherlands in over 40 cities. In Series-A they received more than 25 Mio funding from HV Ventures, Lakestar, Picus and GGC.
Previously, Dr. Josef Vollmayr worked for 5 years as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company with a focus on growth strategies for consumer industries and private equity. He is author of research articles, lecturer for statistics, CRM and empirical research methods at several universities and invests as a business angel in tech start-ups.
Juan Pepa
Stoneshield Capital
Spain
Loraine Berry
VP Development UK, Europe & Middle EastLangham Hospitality Group
United Kingdom
Loraine Berry has over 30 years of experience in Business Development as well as in Operations, Sales and Marketing in the hospitality real estate industry. In her current capacity of VP Development – UK, Europe & Middle East at Langham Hospitality Group (LHG), she is responsible for the company’s strategic expansion in the respective regions for the Group's luxury Brands. Prior to joining LHG, she also held numerous executive roles in other reputable international hotel companies such as Marriott International, Accor and Hilton in places such as London, Switzerland and Hong Kong.
Margaret Sweeney
CEO & Board DirectorI•RES
Ireland
Margaret is CEO and Board Director of IRES REIT, Ireland’s leading private rental residential owner and operator with €1.5bn of assets. She is Chair of the Dublin City University Business School Advisory Board and is a former Non-Executive Director of Dalata Hotel Group plc, Birmingham Airport, Dusseldorf and Hamburg Airports, HSBC Security Servicces Ireland DAC. She has over 20 years of C Level and board director leadership experience She is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland and Chartered Director of IoD UK.
MariaPia Intini
Development & Investment Director EuropePrivate Investments
Netherlands
Mariapia Intini is Development and Investment Director at citizenM hotels, where she is responsible for securing new acquisitions in target cities in Europe. Prior to joining citizenM, she was Associate Director at Cushman & Wakefield’s EMEA Hospitality, where she valued over €1.5bn worth of single assets and portfolios (including NPLs) across Europe, and, before then, Senior Consultant at Colliers International’s EMEA Hotels. She started her real estate career at the global architectural firm Design International. She is a MRICS Chartered Surveyor and holds a Master’s Degree in Hotel Real Estate Finance from Cornell University School of Hotel Administration, NY, when she completed a rotational programme at Marriott International’s US HQs.
Mauro Savoia
PartnerThree Stars Capital
Italy
Mr. Savoia has over 20 years of experience in finance and real estate and closed deals for over Euro 8 billion covering capital markets, M&A, real estate and structured debt. He is Chairman and CEO of Three Stars Capital Partners. Mr. Savoia also headed Merrill Lynch Real Estate Finance in Italy. Before then, Mr. Savoia worked at Morgan Stanley, in M&A, Securitization and Real Estate. He also spent 3 years at Dresser Industries in Houston (TX). Mr. Savoia graduated from Università Cattolica Milan and was awarded with Premio Gemelli as “Best Graduate of the 1995 Class”. He also holds an MBA in Finance from HBU in Houston (TX).
Nadav Zohar
ChairmanLRC Group
United Kingdom
Nadav has 20 years of experience in Real Estate and investment
banking, M&A and advisory work. He was Morgan Stanley’s Head of
Israel investment banking office and served as the European Banking
Operations Officer in London. Nadav was also the COO of Delek
Global Real Estate plc. He served as the Chairman of Soluto Ltd and is
currently the Chairman of Ownera which is a digital trading platform.
He continues to serve as Board Member on a number of company
boards, public and private. Nadav holds and MSc in Finance from the
London Business School and an LLB in Law.
Peter Jun
FounderALMEA International
Netherlands
Peter is founder of ALMEA International. Prior to ALMEA, Peter co-founded Arminius in 2006, Arminius organised private equity funds and co-investment vehicles with equity commitments from university endowments, pension funds and family offices and transacted on over €6 billion of transactions exclusively in Germany. Prior to Arminius, Peter was at Lone Star Europe and a partner in Lone Star Fund V. Additionally, Peter served as a Supervisory Board Member of Allgemeine HypothekenBank Rheinboden AG, (Corealcredit Bank AG). Prior to Lone Star, Peter was with The Praedium Group in New York and Lehman Brothers in London.
Peter Noack
Managing DirectorZeitgeist Asset Management
Czech Republic
Peter Noack is co-founder of ZEITGEIST Asset Management. Today ZEITGEIST has over 50 projects under management with a total investment volume of ca. 800 mio Euro. ZEITGEIST with offices in Prague, Warsaw and Berlin, is a Real Estate Developer and Asset Manager for private and institutional investors in Germany and Central Eastern Europe. Prior to ZEITGEIST, Peter worked in institutional real estate in Germany, Central Eastern Europe and Turkey for HOCHTIEF Development and Rödl & Partner in Germany and Czech Republic. He is registered as licenced attorney at law in Germany and Czech Republic and holds a Law degree from Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany.
Philip C. Sauer
Managing Director Real Estate & HotelsMABEL Capital
Germany
Philip C. Sauer is a real estate professional with more than 30 years of experience in European Real Estate transaction. He holds a Master in Real Estate Investment & Finance from the European Business School in Germany. He currently is a Board Member of the 85 year-old Real Estate Developer 'Sauer Real Estate' (www.sauer1936.com). He furthermore is the founder of the Coliving brand PHNX (www.phnx.me) in addition to acting as Managing Director Real Estate & Hotels at Mabel Capital.
Philip Grace
Chief Development OfficerBob W
United Kingdom
A Real Estate professional, member of the RICS with a background in Coworking, Coliving and Hospitality.
Expanding across Europe Bob W. One of Europe's fastest growing Tech Enabled 1-90 day stay Serviced Apartment operator. Operating in Nine Countries including UK, Spain, Italy, Germany, Estonia, Norway, Finland, Greece, Netherlands.
We sign Master Leases, Management Agreements and work with Investors, developers to secure funding and develop assets from 25 to 200 apartments in core European countries. Backed by some of Europe's best known VC companies and UHNW family offices.
Philippe Camus
CEOShaftesbury Asset Management Group
Luxembourg
CEO of the Shaftesbury Asset Management Group (SAM Group), Philippe has over 35 years experience in Continental European real estate. The Group is actively seeking acquisitions in Spain, Germany, Switzerland and Luxembourg.
Randeesh Sandhu
Co-Founder & CEOPrecede Capital Partners
United Kingdom
Randeesh co-founded Precede Capital in 2021 as a portfolio company of Towerbrook Capital Partners. In 2022 the Company received a commitment of £1bn of new capital from QuadReal, who also acquired an equity stake in Precede.
Prior to founding Precede, Randeesh was the Co-Founder and former CEO of Urban Exposure Plc (LON: UEX), building the company over nearly two decades into the UK’s leading residential development financer and extending over £1.7bn in development finance and £3bn in real estate finance overall. In 2018 Randeesh led the company to a successful flotation on the London Stock Exchange AIM market.
Riccardo Dallolio
MANAGING DIRECTOR & HEAD OF REALTY EUROPEH.I.G Capital
United Kingdom
Riccardo is Managing Director and Head of the H.I.G. Realty in Europe. He is located in H.I.G.'s London office and is responsible for investment origination, transaction structuring and oversight of the European portfolio.
Rossitsa Koevska
Managing DirectorGoldman Sachs Asset Management
United Kingdom
Rossitsa is a managing director in Real Estate Investing within Goldman Sachs Asset Management, where she is responsible for the origination and execution of new investments for the Real Estate Credit Partners program in Europe.
Rossitsa earned a Masters degree in Management and Corporate Finance from ESSEC Business School in Paris in 2010.
Seth Lieberman
ChairmanKvalitena AB
United Kingdom
Seth is Chairman of the Board of Kvalitena AB (publ.), and an Investment Advisory Committee Member of EQT Real Estate Funds I & II and a Board Member of Stendörren AB. Seth is also Chairman of several Kvalitena portfolio companies including Huski Chocolate and Svenskt Industriflyg AB. Previous senior positions include: Advanced Capital (CIO Real Estate), UBS Investment Bank (MD & Commitment Committee Member), Hypo Real Estate (Joint MD), Lehman Brothers International (ED), Credit Suisse Praedium Funds (Principal) & GE Capital (Director). He was an Executive Committee Member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Europe (2014 – 2016) and ULI Global Audit Committee Member (2015 – 2016). Seth earned a B.A. in Economics from Tufts University.
Stan Kubacek
Senior Managing DirectorHeimstaden
Czech Republic
Sourcing and execution of residential investments for Heimstaden in Germany, Central Europe, France and Finland. Formerly responsible for residential investments in Europe at Round Hill Capital. Prior to this, he was an investment banker in the Goldman Sachs’ European real estate team in London. Stan holds a master’s degree in Finance and Business Strategy from Sciences Po University in Paris.
Toni Rossi
DirectorLeponte
Luxembourg
Mr. Rossi graduated from the Luigi Bocconi University in Milan; he then obtained a Master degree in administration and control from the Milan Business School. He worked for a tax-consulting firm, then joined an international industrial group in Milan and subsequently became director of an advisory company specialized in hedge and long term investment funds. He has also been Member of the Board of some investment firms.
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For over 200 years, JLL (NYSE: JLL), a leading global commercial real estate and investment management company, has helped clients buy, build, occupy, manage and invest in a variety of commercial, industrial, hotel, residential and retail properties. A Fortune 500® company with annual revenue of $20.9 billion and operations in over 80 countries around the world, our more than 103,000 employees bring the power of a global platform combined with local expertise. Driven by our purpose to shape the future of real estate for a better world, we help our clients, people and communities SEE A BRIGHTER WAYSM. JLL is the brand name, and a registered trademark, of Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated. For further information, visit jll.com.
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