List of the 60 Largest Private Equity Real Estate Investors Europe [2023]

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Includes private equity investors actively buying real estate in Europe.

Excellent depth of detail: purchase profile (asset classes and regional focus), link to purchase profile and assets under management if available, contact details, management board, etc.

This list is based on our list of the 1,200 largest real estate investors in Europe.

High-quality lists thanks to manual data maintenance by an experienced research team in Munich. Boutique research instead of unchecked crawler data.

List of 3 Private Equity Real Estate Investors in Europe

European private equity investors in the real estate business are characterized by their broad investment profile and rather high risk profile. In the following we introduce three relevant investors from our list.

1. EQT (Stockholm)

The Swedish private equity investor EQT invests through its EQT Exeter division. The focus of this is on value-add investments. These can be in the areas of logistics, light industrial, offices, life science and residential. An example is, for example, the “Concept” project in France or the acquisition of Stendörren, which invests in urban logistics properties and light industrial properties in the Stockholm area.

Update 2023: A new logistics center for Aldi is being built in Paderborn, where EQT Exeter is acting as project developer and will be responsible for the construction - the regional company Aldi Nord will be the tenant. The site, which covers an area of around 50,000 square meters, has enough space for a cold and dry storage facility and a transshipment hall for frozen goods. In addition, office and administrative space is part of the arrangement on Halberstädter Straße.

2. AURELIUS Real Estate Opportunities (Grünwald/Munich)

The real estate arm of the Munich-based private equity investor AURELIUS Real Estate Opportunities invests in residential, light industrial and corporate real estate. In PE style, the focus is on special situations. A “manage-to-core” approach is used to achieve improvement potential. Properties are purchased in European markets from a purchase price of EUR 3 million.

3. Heitman (Chicago/Frankfurt)

The US private equity investor Heitman LLC manages over USD 46 billion. In the real estate sector, investments are made in three areas: Private Equity (privately held real estate), Debt (loans) and Public Equity (shares in listed companies). In private equity, the focus is on core, value-add and opportunistic strategies.