How experienced real estate firms access and navigate the debt capital markets—and how investors assess and support them. Insights from both sides of the capital flow.
Philip Grosse
CFO at Vonovia
Damian Wisniewski
CFO at Derwent London
Peter Yu
Managing Director and Fixed Income Credit Analyst at Wellington Management
Tolu Alamutu (Moderator)
Ambitious CEOs share how they're scaling real estate platforms from the ground up—what drives growth, and what it really takes.
Simon Garing
CEO at Stoneweg European REIT
Johanna Hult-Rentsch
CEO at Platzer Fastigheter
Christian Fredrixon
CEO at Cibus
Rob Jones (Moderator)
European Equity Research, Executive Director at BNP Paribas Exane
Hear directly from leadership on the 'why' behind their platform strategy—clear thinking, long-term vision, and where they’re placing your capital.
David Walker
CFO at British Land
Matthew Norris
Head of real estate securities at Gravis
Richard Wilkinson
CFO at CTP
Jonathan Kownator (Moderator)
Head of European real estate equity research at Goldman Sachs
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Aedifica is a Belgian listed company that is specialised in offering innovative and sustainable real estate concepts to healthcare operators across Europe, focusing in particular on housing for elderly people with care needs. The Group has accumulated a portfolio of more than 600 properties in Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Finland, Ireland and Spain, worth more than €6.1 billion.
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British Land is a UK commercial property company focused on real estate sectors with the strongest operational fundamentals: London campuses, retail parks, and London urban logistics. We own or manage a portfolio valued at £13.6bn (British Land share: £8.9bn) as at 30 September 2024. Our purpose is to create and manage Places People Prefer – outstanding places that deliver positive outcomes for all our stakeholders on a long term, sustainable basis. We do this by leveraging our best in class platform and proven expertise in development, repositioning and active asset management.
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Castellum (Diversified / Sweden)
Castellum is one of the Nordic region’s largest commercial property companies, with a focus on office and logistics properties in Nordic growth cities. The company is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm Large Cap and is classified as green under the Green Equity Designation. Castellum is the only Nordic property company included in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI).
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CTP (Industrial / Czechia)
CTP is Europe’s largest listed owner, developer, and manager of logistics and industrial real estate by gross lettable area, owning 13.3 million sqm of GLA across 10 countries as at 31 December 2024. CTP is market leader in the CEE region, Europe’s fastest growing region. The group develops, owns and operates, state-of-the-art, full-service business parks in strategic locations, leveraging strong client relationships to deliver long-term value creation.
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Eurocommercial (Retail / The Netherlands)
Eurocommercial Properties N.V. is a Euronext-quoted property investment company and one of Europe’s shopping centre specialists. Founded in 1991, Eurocommercial currently owns and operates 24 shopping centres in Belgium, France, Italy, and Sweden with total assets of almost €4 billion.
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Grainger (Residential / United-Kingdom)
Founded in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1912, Grainger plc, a FTSE 250 business, is the UK’s largest listed residential landlord and leader in the fast-growing build-to-rent sector, providing c.11,100 rental homes to over 20,000 customers. With a pipeline of secured build-to-rent development projects totalling c.5,000 homes and £1.4bn, Grainger is creating thousands more rental homes by investing in cities across the UK.
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Hedge Brasil Shopping (Retail / Brazil)
Established in 2006, Hedge Brasil Shopping FII (HGBS) is Brazil's first actively managed REIT. This REIT focuses exclusively on operational shopping malls with a minimum gross leasable area (GLA) of 15,000 m², located in regions with a population of at least 500,000 residents, and managed by specialized firms. HGBS is listed on the B3 stock exchange under the ticker HGBS11. As of September 2024, it became the first Brazilian REIT to be included in the FTSE EPRA Nareit Global REIT Index . HGBS is one of the largest REITs in Brazil by market capitalization, gross leasable area, and number of investors. Headquartered in São Paulo, HGBS holds stakes in 20 shopping malls across six states and fifteen cities in Brazil.
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Icade (Diversified / France)
Icade is a full-service real estate company with expertise in both property investment (portfolio worth €6.4bn as of 12/31/2024 – 100% + Group share of joint ventures) and property development (2024 economic revenue of €1.2bn) that operates throughout France. Icade has forged long-term partnerships to respond to emerging trends in the industry. It has made climate issues and the preservation of biodiversity central to its business model to reinvent real estate and contribute to more sustainable cities. It is listed as an “SIIC” on Euronext Paris and its leading shareholder is the Caisse des Dépôts Group.
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Kojamo (Residential / Finland)
Kojamo is the largest private residential real estate investment company in Finland. With over 55 years of experience, the company offers sustainable rental housing and related services under the Lumo brand. Kojamo offers the opportunity to invest in a decentralised and professionally managed housing portfolio consisting of over 40,000 apartments in Finland’s largest growth centres.
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Platzer (Industrial and Office Mixed / Sweden)
Platzer Fastigheter is the only listed real estate company exclusively focused on Gothenburg, Sweden. With a strong commitment to sustainability, we manage and develop commercial properties that shape the city’s future. Our ambition is clear: to be a leading force in the region and help make Gothenburg the best city in Europe to work in.
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PSP Swiss Property (Diversified / Switzerland)
PSP Swiss Property is one of Switzerland’s leading real estate companies. It owns a portfolio with a total value of close to CHF 10 billion. As a pure play for Swiss real estate, it focuses on high-quality office and retail buildings in prime locations in the country’s major business centres from Zurich and Geneva to Lausanne, Bern and Basel.
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Realty Income (Retail / United States)
Realty Income (NYSE: O), an S&P 500 company, is real estate partner to the world's leading companies®. Founded in 1969, we invest in diversified commercial real estate and have a portfolio of over 16,000 properties in all 50 U.S. states, the U.K., and six other countries in Europe. We are known as "The Monthly Dividend Company®" and have a mission to invest in people and places to deliver dependable monthly dividends that increase over time.
Since our founding, we have declared 658 consecutive monthly dividends and are a member of the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats® index for having increased our dividend for the last 30 consecutive years as of April 8, 2025. Our business track record has been cultivated through the ownership of high-quality commercial assets leased to industry-leading operators under long-term net lease agreements.
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Shurgard (Self-storage / Belgium)
Shurgard is the largest provider of self storage in Europe. The company owns and/or operates 337
self-storage facilities and approximately 1.7 million net rentable square meters in seven countries: the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Sweden, Belgium and Denmark.
Shurgard is a GRESB 5-star and Sector Leader, has an ‘AA’ ESG rating from MSCI, is rated Low risk by Sustainalytics and has an EPRA sBPR Gold medal.
Shurgard’s European network currently serves more than 220,000 customers and employs approximately 900 people. Shurgard is listed on Euronext Brussels under the symbol “SHUR”.
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Vonovia (Residential / Germany)
Vonovia is Europe’s largest listed real estate company, both in terms of market cap and asset value. Vonovia is a pure-play residential player covering the full value chain from construction and acquisition over efficient property and asset management (deep vertical integration) to disposals. Shareholder returns are generated via dividends and organic value growth.
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Wihlborgs (Diversified / Sweden)
Wihlborgs Fastigheter AB (publ) is a property company that focuses on commercial properties in the Öresund region. Its property portfolio is located in Malmö, Helsingborg, Lund and Copenhagen. In Malmö, Lund and Helsingborg, Wihlborgs is the leading property company. The book value of the company’s properties totals SEK 59 billion, representing an annual property rental value of SEK 4.6 billion. Wihlborgs’ shares are listed on the Large Cap List of Nasdaq Stockholm.
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Xior (Student Housing / Belgium)
Xior Student Housing is a Belgian REIT specializing in student accommodation. As the market leader with a pan-European coverage across eight countries, we are the owner-operator of approx. 21,000 units. Our goal is to offer as many students as possible an exceptional first living experience.
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