Institutional Investors

The latest office based reminder that asset valuations are relative to discount rates. We are in the process of emerging from ~15 year era of Disney-land rates and we expect more of the same in the office sector as an estimated €150bn of European CRE debt matures by 2025. Click here to read the React … Read more

Pimco’s recent report ‘Real Estate Reckoning’ talks how their outlook for commercial real estate investing largely advocates an opportunistic approach to capturing value in real estate markets. Our Opportunistic Credit strategy is a value driven investment strategy that provides capital in scenarios where market inefficiencies and/or transactional idiosyncrasies create liquidity demands that can drive enhanced … Read more

Good to see another major institutional investor choosing opportunistic credit as the best means of addressing current real estate markets, with Franklin Templeton‘s Benefit Street Partners launching their second opportunistic debt fund.  Our opportunistic credit strategy focuses on idiosyncratic real estate opportunities, such as recapitalisations, refinancing, time-crunched transactions as well as distressed and stressed scenarios. Our … Read more

Non-bank financing is offering solutions to the debt funding gap React News recently reported on the commercial real estate financing gap in Europe and how alternative lenders can play a significant role here. They reported that 2024 is shaping up to be crucial for refinancing, with industry experts projecting a debt funding gap of €51bn … Read more

The life sciences sub-sector within real estate continues to go from strength to strength, with British Land letting 48,000 sq ft of lab-enabled space to leading global life science company LGC, in what is one of the largest life sciences deals in the UK this year. At Zenzic, we believe investors should be able to … Read more

Post the COVID-19 pandemic, the importance of a high-class life science industry is self-evident. Yet the scale of the industry, and the resources required to sustain it, are perhaps still underappreciated. In our white paper, we looked at repositioning secondary office sites into life sciences assets. UBS is doing just that with this exciting development … Read more

Interesting to hear Bruce Richards discussing with Institutional Investor why he believes for the first time in 20 years, credit will offer better absolute returns than equity. He explains why we are now in a Golden Era for Credit, where not only can you earn an attractive rate of return in the liquid credit market, … Read more

Came across an interesting report by PIMCO who, like us, believe higher interest rates and tighter lending conditions are creating a very attractive environment for opportunistic credit managers with flexible capital to fill large liquidity gaps. In Europe, investors need to work with experienced real estate investors, who have the experience and skill set to … Read more

Zenzic has long viewed senior living housing as a growth sector and it’s good to see React News reporting that the number of completed senior homes is up 6% at the end of last year, according to Knight Frank. They estimate that around 50,000 new senior homes are required to be built annually to accommodate … Read more