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How can UK & European Real Estate markets reset,
rethink and recover post COVID, now and stabilise in the long term?
At the heart of the annual British & Irish GRI conference, through the special request of GRI Club Europe Members, this in person event aims to aid the discovery process for sourcing deal flow and get back on track post COVID through frank conversations on capital, demand and risk/reward. We will welcome UK Private Equity Investors, Fund Managers, LP’s Developers, Asset Owners, Operators and Lenders invested across all Europe regions, risk profiles and asset classes, to engage in a series of informal roundtables where everyone can participate.Down turn values or up runs inflation?
Down turn values or up runs inflation?
- GDP, interest rates & unemployment - Will the market cool or ramp up?
- Inflation Risk - Increased concerns or not much to worry about?
- USA, APAC and Europe Capital Flows -Where is the capital coming from?
- Has COVID changed pricing & leveraging and is it rational?
- Europe Assets - Flight to core or alternatives in the driving seat?
- Europe Regions - Finding Equity Partners & Adjusting Risk Profiles
How to get rational pricing back?
Boom or doom?
How to get rational pricing back?
- Value Add Markets in Europe - How to identify future projects and ensure their quality and profit?
- Rates & Yields - When and how can we ensure profitability of those deals?
- Private Equity - Dry powder impact on risk and price anticipation?
- Banks' Appetite & Lending Confidence - Why does the crisis impact banks' involvement in opportunistic and value add projects?
- Asset Conversions & Managing to Core - Solution to rise up yields in what and where?
- Forward Funding & Refinancing the only way forward?
- NPLS - Bargains here or still waiting for the bottom?
Boom or doom?
- Thin liquidity, how to get buyers kicking again?
- Covid Accelerated Habits - which assets benefit, which fail?
- LP/GP Partnerships - Widening Bid & Ask gap, Are All Bets Off?
- Refinancing Deals, Underwriting & Adjusting to Pricing
- Capital Commitments From End Investors; Traditional & alternative dealflows
- Development Deals - What Makes Sense?
Opening Keynote
Fireside Chat Interview
James Seppala is a Senior Managing Director in the Real Estate Group and the Head of Real Estate Europe, based in London. Since joining Blackstone in 2011, Mr. Seppala has been involved in a number of Blackstone’s investments across Europe, including Logicor, OfficeFirst, Sponda, and Mileway. Prior to joining Blackstone, Mr. Seppala was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs & Co, where he spent 10 years focused on equity and debt investment opportunities in Europe and the United States on behalf of Goldman Sachs’s real estate private equity group. Mr. Seppala graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 2001.
James Seppala
ESG Considerations
Aligning net zero carbon with investment growth
Which EU cities winners, which losers?
Operational Resi
High demand, where's the downside risk?
ESG Considerations
Aligning net zero carbon with investment growth
- Reporting Sustainability & Impact Investment as Key Non-Traditional Real Estate Investment Factors?
- Social Impact Value Returns - How to benchmark and measure impact for business sense?
- Shared Value - Increasing business value through ESG & tech considerations
Which EU cities winners, which losers?
- Raising Capital - Where is the capital coming from and will equity pour only in core assets?
- All about Location or are Asset Classes the Main Deciding Factor?
- Allocation Game - Too soon or opportunities en masse?
- Institutional Investment Appetite - What’s changed, what’s staying the same?
- Lack of Product - No shortage of capital but nowhere to invest?
Operational Resi
High demand, where's the downside risk?
- Post COVID Risk Profiles - Is the alternative market liquid and creating mainstream opportunities for investors?
- Deal Volumes & Allocations Increasing - How to capture the upside?
- Pricing Operational Assets - Where’s the downside risk?
- Blurred Lines - Is hospitality the new residential?
- Student Housing & Co-Living - Money spinner?
- Care Homes & Retirement Assets - Best to back fundamentally but challenges with operator partnerships?
E-commerce party or supply chain jam?
Status quo or vacancies & repurposing?
E-commerce party or supply chain jam?
- Ecommerce penetration creating demand across Europe - What opportunities to buy, sell?
- Finding Product - Availability, price and locations
- Brexit Battleground - France, Ireland & Benelux in prime position?
- Occupational Market Drivers Impact on BTS & Acquisitions - Cold storage, retail, food and automotive
- Strategies in saturated markets? UK, France, Germany, Netherlands?
- Spain, Italy, Czech & Portugal hidden gems?
Status quo or vacancies & repurposing?
- Return to Work - What to do with vacant space and tenant retention?
- Tenant Demand - WFH v creating attractive workplace destinations
- Structural, Social & COVID accelerated demand drivers - How to create value in the now normal?
- Sustainable Income Streams in Digital Age - Ensuring offices isn’t the next retail
- Flex Operators - Who to partner with or do it yourself?
- Tenant Mix - Corporates, SMEs & startups; where do they fit in & when are they returning to the office?
Down goes Bankers’ Appetite, Up Goes the Forward Funding?
Is the bloom off the rose?
Down goes Bankers’ Appetite, Up Goes the Forward Funding?
- How has COVID Changed Debt Pricing & Leveraging?
- Development Finance - New opportunity to pick slack from banks exiting?
- Pricing up Different Geographies
- Forward Funding - Equity now, debt later?
- Which Asset Classes are Lenders Still Looking at?
- Banks, Debt Funds, Mezz - Any upsides to more risk & higher prices?
Is the bloom off the rose?
- Global Capital - Still on top or new pecking order?
- New deals & Risk Exposure - Any changing to lending and finance?
- Bid & Ask Gap - Wider or closing back?
- Post Brexit, Post Vaccines - Are capital markets too happy?
- Strategies to Capitalise on Value-Add & Opportunistic Investment
- Institutional Investor Appetite - Which asset classes are providing greeted ROI?
Hospitality, F&B, Leisure
Short term shocks over, what’s next?
Regenerating Regions Through Value Add
Repurposing Assets vs New Development Deals
Hospitality, F&B, Leisure
Short term shocks over, what’s next?
- Buyers - Distressed wave or recovery possible through acquisitions?
- Sellers - Pricing makes sense right now?
- Lenders - What are they backing and why?
- Operators - Back in the driving seat?
- Europe Regions - Which markets are quick to recover?
Regenerating Regions Through Value Add
Repurposing Assets vs New Development Deals
- Institutional Appetite - Flight to London or regional opportunities never better?
- Distressed Buyers - Are local authorities ones to watch?
- Commercial Core & Value Add - Repurposing Assets vs New Development Deals
- Placemaking and Future of Urban Areas - How has COVID transformed the game?
- Connectivity, Demand & Community - Need to rethink public, private partnerships?
- Long Term Strategies For Obsolete Retail Space - Resi vs commercial uses
Creating opportunities, when to Strike?
Future of Real Estate
Can tech meet the needs of the modern occupier?
Creating opportunities, when to Strike?
- Winning Retail - Repurpose or rethink tenant partnerships?
- Risk Positioning - Only for opportunistic players?
- Financing - Any lenders in the game or all about equity?
- Which Concepts to Bet on - Food anchored retail, high street or shopping malls?
- Distressed & Obsolete Assets - What redevelopment opportunities are out there?
Future of Real Estate
Can tech meet the needs of the modern occupier?
- Demographics - Urban density, reshaping space and community placemaking, can the deals attract institutional backing?
- Tech Solutions for New Consumer Demands - Creating experiences, connectivity & communities
- Gen Z vs an Aging Population - Catering to needs across the demographic scale
Agenda
Down turn values or up runs inflation?
- GDP, interest rates & unemployment - Will the market cool or ramp up?
- Inflation Risk - Increased concerns or not much to worry about?
- USA, APAC and Europe Capital Flows -Where is the capital coming from?
- Has COVID changed pricing & leveraging and is it rational?
- Europe Assets - Flight to core or alternatives in the driving seat?
- Europe Regions - Finding Equity Partners & Adjusting Risk Profiles
Boom or doom?
- Thin liquidity, how to get buyers kicking again?
- Covid Accelerated Habits - which assets benefit, which fail?
- LP/GP Partnerships - Widening Bid & Ask gap, Are All Bets Off?
- Refinancing Deals, Underwriting & Adjusting to Pricing
- Capital Commitments From End Investors; Traditional & alternative dealflows
- Development Deals - What Makes Sense?
How to get rational pricing back?
- Value Add Markets in Europe - How to identify future projects and ensure their quality and profit?
- Rates & Yields - When and how can we ensure profitability of those deals?
- Private Equity - Dry powder impact on risk and price anticipation?
- Banks' Appetite & Lending Confidence - Why does the crisis impact banks' involvement in opportunistic and value add projects?
- Asset Conversions & Managing to Core - Solution to rise up yields in what and where?
- Forward Funding & Refinancing the only way forward?
- NPLS - Bargains here or still waiting for the bottom?
Opening Keynote
Fireside Chat Interview
James Seppala is a Senior Managing Director in the Real Estate Group and the Head of Real Estate Europe, based in London. Since joining Blackstone in 2011, Mr. Seppala has been involved in a number of Blackstone’s investments across Europe, including Logicor, OfficeFirst, Sponda, and Mileway. Prior to joining Blackstone, Mr. Seppala was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs & Co, where he spent 10 years focused on equity and debt investment opportunities in Europe and the United States on behalf of Goldman Sachs’s real estate private equity group. Mr. Seppala graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 2001.
Operational Resi
High demand, where's the downside risk?
- Post COVID Risk Profiles - Is the alternative market liquid and creating mainstream opportunities for investors?
- Deal Volumes & Allocations Increasing - How to capture the upside?
- Pricing Operational Assets - Where’s the downside risk?
- Blurred Lines - Is hospitality the new residential?
- Student Housing & Co-Living - Money spinner?
- Care Homes & Retirement Assets - Best to back fundamentally but challenges with operator partnerships?
Which EU cities winners, which losers?
- Raising Capital - Where is the capital coming from and will equity pour only in core assets?
- All about Location or are Asset Classes the Main Deciding Factor?
- Allocation Game - Too soon or opportunities en masse?
- Institutional Investment Appetite - What’s changed, what’s staying the same?
- Lack of Product - No shortage of capital but nowhere to invest?
ESG Considerations
Aligning net zero carbon with investment growth
- Reporting Sustainability & Impact Investment as Key Non-Traditional Real Estate Investment Factors?
- Social Impact Value Returns - How to benchmark and measure impact for business sense?
- Shared Value - Increasing business value through ESG & tech considerations
E-commerce party or supply chain jam?
- Ecommerce penetration creating demand across Europe - What opportunities to buy, sell?
- Finding Product - Availability, price and locations
- Brexit Battleground - France, Ireland & Benelux in prime position?
- Occupational Market Drivers Impact on BTS & Acquisitions - Cold storage, retail, food and automotive
- Strategies in saturated markets? UK, France, Germany, Netherlands?
- Spain, Italy, Czech & Portugal hidden gems?
Status quo or vacancies & repurposing?
- Return to Work - What to do with vacant space and tenant retention?
- Tenant Demand - WFH v creating attractive workplace destinations
- Structural, Social & COVID accelerated demand drivers - How to create value in the now normal?
- Sustainable Income Streams in Digital Age - Ensuring offices isn’t the next retail
- Flex Operators - Who to partner with or do it yourself?
- Tenant Mix - Corporates, SMEs & startups; where do they fit in & when are they returning to the office?
Is the bloom off the rose?
- Global Capital - Still on top or new pecking order?
- New deals & Risk Exposure - Any changing to lending and finance?
- Bid & Ask Gap - Wider or closing back?
- Post Brexit, Post Vaccines - Are capital markets too happy?
- Strategies to Capitalise on Value-Add & Opportunistic Investment
- Institutional Investor Appetite - Which asset classes are providing greeted ROI?
Down goes Bankers’ Appetite, Up Goes the Forward Funding?
- How has COVID Changed Debt Pricing & Leveraging?
- Development Finance - New opportunity to pick slack from banks exiting?
- Pricing up Different Geographies
- Forward Funding - Equity now, debt later?
- Which Asset Classes are Lenders Still Looking at?
- Banks, Debt Funds, Mezz - Any upsides to more risk & higher prices?
Regenerating Regions Through Value Add
Repurposing Assets vs New Development Deals
- Institutional Appetite - Flight to London or regional opportunities never better?
- Distressed Buyers - Are local authorities ones to watch?
- Commercial Core & Value Add - Repurposing Assets vs New Development Deals
- Placemaking and Future of Urban Areas - How has COVID transformed the game?
- Connectivity, Demand & Community - Need to rethink public, private partnerships?
- Long Term Strategies For Obsolete Retail Space - Resi vs commercial uses
Hospitality, F&B, Leisure
Short term shocks over, what’s next?
- Buyers - Distressed wave or recovery possible through acquisitions?
- Sellers - Pricing makes sense right now?
- Lenders - What are they backing and why?
- Operators - Back in the driving seat?
- Europe Regions - Which markets are quick to recover?
Future of Real Estate
Can tech meet the needs of the modern occupier?
- Demographics - Urban density, reshaping space and community placemaking, can the deals attract institutional backing?
- Tech Solutions for New Consumer Demands - Creating experiences, connectivity & communities
- Gen Z vs an Aging Population - Catering to needs across the demographic scale
Creating opportunities, when to Strike?
- Winning Retail - Repurpose or rethink tenant partnerships?
- Risk Positioning - Only for opportunistic players?
- Financing - Any lenders in the game or all about equity?
- Which Concepts to Bet on - Food anchored retail, high street or shopping malls?
- Distressed & Obsolete Assets - What redevelopment opportunities are out there?
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