List of the 200 Largest Real Estate Investors Benelux Union [2023]

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Includes institutional investors, investment managers, project developers, real estate companies, REITs and pension funds that actively acquire real estate in the Benelux Union.

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 the 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 investors in the Benelux Union

To give you a better idea of our list, we briefly introduce three companies that are included in our address database of the largest Benelux real estate buyers. Our team deals intensively with the respective markets and analyses the most important players in detail before we prepare our lists. In this way we ensure that the most relevant companies are really included in our overviews and that you don’t acquire outdated data.

List of 3 large real estate investors in Belgium

1. Ascencio SCA (Gosselies)

Founded in 2006, this Belgian real estate investor is headquartered in Gosselies, Belgium. Ascencio’s focus is on commercial properties in peri-urban areas, and the investor now has 106 such properties in its portfolio - together these have an estimated value of around 700 million euros. The geographical is in Belgium, France and Spain - recently (early 2020) Ascencio acquired 5 shopping centers in the southeast of France.

Update 2023: The real estate buyer Ascencio continues to be active in the domestic market. Most recently, it acquired the Bellefleur retail park in Couillet (near Charleroi, Belgium) from Mestdagh. Mestdagh SA operates a network of grocery stores and supplies customers throughout the country. The purchase price was 6.4 million euros.

2. Whitewood (Antwerp)

In 2007 the foundations were laid for the current Belgian real estate investor Whitewood; in 2015 the joint venture with Dutch real estate investor AllFixed Property Management established a second pillar in the Netherlands. Whitewood invests in commercial real estate, residential real estate and also office real estate - together with DW Partners, Whitewood acquired a 174 million euro office portfolio from Propertize in 2016 - with offices in Utrecht, Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Den Haage.

3. Nextensa (Brussels)

Nextensa is a Belgian real estate investor based in Antwerp with a regional focus on Belgium, Switzerland, Luxemburg and Austria. More than 50% of its investments are made in Luxembourg, which makes Nextensa one of the most important real estate investors in Luxembourg. Nextensa is also diversified in terms of investor asset classes and invests in office properties as well as commercial properties and also logistics properties.

List of 3 large real estate investors in the Netherlands

1. a.s.r. real estate (Utrecht)

a.s.r. real estate is a Dutch real estate investor belonging to one of the largest insurers in the Netherlands: a.s.r. The Utrecht-based real estate investor’s portfolio is diversified and includes not only residential properties but also retail, office, science park and rural properties - as a result, a.s.r. real estate has approximately 6.4 billion euros in assets under management. In mid-2020, the investor acquired 220 rental apartments of a residential building for the ASR Dutch Core Residential Fund, which is to be built on the former site of the Winston Churchill Tower in Rijswijk (South Holland) in 2022.

Update 2023: The real estate division of insurer ARS has received its first capital from Germany. The so-called “ASR Dutch Mobility Office Fund” was able to collect the equivalent of almost 60 million euros from an undisclosed institutional investor. The fund focuses on high-quality office buildings in the immediate vicinity of mobility hubs in the five largest office markets in the Netherlands.

2. Amvest (Amsterdam)

Amvest was established as a joint venture back in 1997, formerly with a focus on managing rental housing. However, since 2005, Amvest has also been active as an investor, distinctly in the area of residential real estate. In the meantime, the real estate investor from the Netherlands manages around 21,000 homes, which are divided into four portfolios. The most important fund for the company is the Amvest Residential Core Fund (ARC Fund), which specializes in sustainable single-person homes in the mid-price segment in economically strong regions in the Netherlands. Recently, as of mid-2019, the investor, which is also a project developer, has completed 151 rental apartments in Arnhem.

3. Daelmans Vastgoed (Maastricht)

The Dutch real estate investor Daelmans Vastgoed, headquartered in Maastricht, was founded back in 1982 and is still family-run. Daelmans Vastgoed focuses geographically on the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. The company is interested in the residential properties, as well as retail- and office properties. In mid-2020, the real estate investor acquired a €91 million residential portfolio from Syntrus Achmea Real Estate & Finance, which includes a total of 399 properties.