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
Situl Jobanputra
CFO at Shaftesbury Capital
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
Nicolas Correa
Asset Management at Hedge Investment
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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Ascencio specialises in commercial property investments, and more specifically, supermarkets and retail parks. The Company is present in Belgium, France and Spain. The fair value of its portfolio amounts to approximately €740 million, spread over a hundred or so real estate assets with a total surface area of around 440,000 m² and generating rental income exceeding €53 million a year. Its stock market capitalization amounted to more than €290 million at 31/03/2025.
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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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Colonial (Office / Spain)
Inmobiliaria Colonial is the leading platform in the prime commercial real estate market in Europe, with a presence in the main business areas of Barcelona, Madrid, and Paris. It owns a unique portfolio of commercial properties totalling over 1 million m², with a market value exceeding €11.6 billion. The Group follows a dedicated long-term strategy focused on value creation through a high-quality client portfolio and asset appreciation. Looking ahead, the Colonial Group will continue to lead the urban transformation of city centres in the European market, recognized for its expertise and professionalism, financial strength, and profitability, while providing excellent sustainable real estate solutions tailored to its clients' needs.
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Covivio (Diversified / France)
Drawing on its history of partnerships, its property expertise and its European culture, Covivio is inventing today's user experience and designing tomorrow's city. Covivio is a preferred real estate player on a European scale, getting closer to end users, capturing their aspirations, combining work, travel and living. A leading European operator with €23.1 billion in assets (€15.6 billion group share), Covivio helps companies, hotel brands and local authorities meet the challenges of attractiveness, transformation and responsible performance. After maintaining a strong financial discipline in 2023/2024 and benefitting from a healthy balance sheet (38.9% LTV end-2024), Covivio aims at pursuing its development into hotels, extracting growth potential from its existing portfolio and deploy its operated real estate offer across its portfolio.
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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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Derwent (Office / United-Kingdom)
Derwent London is the largest London office-focused REIT, with a £5.0 billion portfolio concentrated in the West End and City Borders. Our experienced team creates value through design-led regeneration, asset management and capital recycling. We have a strong balance with modest leverage, a robust income stream and flexible financing. In 2020, we committed to becoming net zero carbon by 2030. Landmark properties in our portfolio include 1 Soho Place W1, Brunel Building W2, and White Collar Factory EC1.
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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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Grand City Properties (Residential / Germany)
Grand City Properties is a specialist in residential real estate, value-add opportunities in densely populated areas primarily in Germany and London. The Company’s strategy is to improve its properties by repositioning and intensive tenant management, and then create value by subsequently raising occupancy and rental levels.
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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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IGD (Retail / Italy)
IGD SIIQ S.p.A. is one of the main players in Italy’s retail real estate market: it owns and manages shopping centers in Italy and Romania. Listed on Borsa Italiana’s Euronext STAR segment since 2005, we have a real estate portfolio valued at circa €1.7bn. We purchase, develop and manage our properties with a view to the long-term in order to maintain and further improve their value over time and we use the same attention to manage third-party institutional assets.
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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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Neobo (Residential / Sweden)
Neobo is a Swedish residential company that was included in the EPRA index in December last year.
Neobo is a Swedish real estate company with residential properties across Sweden. The property portfolio has a value of SEK 13.8 bn. Neobo’s shares are listed on Nasdaq Stockholm Mid Cap and the company was included in the EPRA index in December last year.
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Pandox (Lodging and Resorts / Sweden)
Pandox owns, develops, and leases hotel properties to skilled hotel operators under long-term, turnover-based leases with minimum guaranteed levels. Since our inception in 1995, we have grown into one of the largest hotel property owners in Europe. Our portfolio consists of 163 hotel properties with approximately 36,000 rooms across 11 countries in Northern Europe. The head quarter is in Stockholm, and we are listed on Nasdaq Stockholm.
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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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Shaftesbury Capital (Retail/ United-Kingdom)
Shaftesbury Capital PLC (“Shaftesbury Capital”) is the leading central London mixed-use REIT and is a constituent of the FTSE-250 Index. Our property portfolio under management, valued at £5 billion, extends to 2.7 million square feet of lettable space across the most vibrant areas of London’s West End. With a diverse mix of shops, restaurants, cafés, bars, residential and offices, our destinations include the high footfall, thriving neighbourhoods of Covent Garden, Carnaby, Soho and Chinatown. Our properties are close to the main West End Underground stations and transport hubs for the Elizabeth Line.
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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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Stoneweg European REIT (Diversified / Singapore)
Stoneweg European Real Estate Investment Trust (SERT) is a Singapore-listed real estate investment trust with a pan-European mandate, with a majority (currently 56%, aiming for >60%) logistics and light industrial focus. As of early 2025, it boasts a €2.2 billion portfolio of over 100 predominantly freehold assets spanning logistics, light industrial, and Grade A office sectors. Approximately 86% of its holdings are located in Western Europe, including key markets such as the Netherlands, Germany, France, Italy and the UK. The REIT is managed by Stoneweg EREIT Management Pte. Ltd., under the sponsorship of SWI Group (Stoneweg, Icona Capital and its associate companies and subsidiaries), which collectively manage over €10 billion in assets. In January 2025, SERT announced plans to staple a business trust to the REIT, aiming to enhance flexibility and long-term growth prospects.
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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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