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IREMIS announces first Closing of it’s inaugural Real Estate Fund focused on Hotels
June 15, 2023 / By webmaster
Luxembourg – IREMIS, the Luxemburg based specialist real estate investment manager today announced the first closing of its inaugural real estate fund, the IREMIS Hotel Immobilienfonds I (the Fund). The Fund is designed as a mid sized real estate fund focused on European hotel real estate investment opportunities in today ́s challenging real estate market. It is structured as a Luxembourg RAIF with IREMIS as its investment manager and INTREAL Luxembourg as its AIFM and has received significant capital commitments from several renowned German institutional investors.
The IREMIS designed Fund strategy is to acquire high-quality, well-located city center hotels in the Eurozone. The focus will be on dynamic markets with a balance between leisure and business demand and strong, strategic operating partners within hybrid leases. The Fund may pursue Core/Core+ to Value-Add investments. IREMIS will in particular leverage recent positive hotel trading but also use changes in the operator, brand, lease structure, repositioning, refurbishment, refinancing amongst others to create value. Value Add investments may even include holistic transformation of obsolete real estate, highlighting the flexibility the Fund ́s strategy provides to invest at the most attractive points of risk adjusted returns alongst the risk return spectrum.
Peter Lenhardt, IREMIS director and Head of Hotel and Leisure, said, “The current hotel real estate market is tailor-made for IREMIS ́ specialist, active investment management approach. After over a decade of loose monetary policy driving up values nearly indistinctively across asset classes, today ́s level of uncertainty, change and volatility requires more than ever specialist investment managers. Indeed, our extensive know how and experience allow us to select the right markets, assets and strategy. While our wide network across the hotel industry enables us to select the best strategic partners, so we can create value and generate attractive returns for specific real estate asset classes.”
Jochen Schäfer-Suren, Founder and Co-Chairman of IREMIS, said, “Today ́s first closing just 14 months after Jos Short and I set up IREMIS as a specialist real estate investment manager, is a major achievement and a milestone for IREMIS. It is testimony to the quality of our team, its experience and track record, our focused strategy and quality of our partners, like INTREAL. It is all the more rewarding as it reflects the excellent relationship and deep trust from our institutional investors in a difficult macro context as well as challenging capital and real estate markets.”
About IREMIS
IREMIS is a European real estate investment management firm founded and held 50/50 by Jos Short and Jochen Schäfer-Suren. Its strategy is to assemble and lead a group of real estate professionals with outstanding track records in specialist real estate asset classes to assist investors, lenders and occupiers to navigate the unprecedented challenges the world, its economy and real estate face today. IREMIS senior team has exceptional experience and track record in real estate development, investments, investment banking and fund management in senior positions and/or on boards of private and public companies.
About INTREAL
As a service KVG, INTREAL focuses on the launch and administration of regulated real estate funds for third parties. With 495 employees, the INTREAL Group offers many years of real estate know-how as well as detailed and highly professional fund administration knowledge. INTREAL group administers 294 funds via a large number of external fund partners with a total investment volume of around EUR 63.7 billion (all figures: as of the end of Q1/2023). Via its subsidiary INTREAL Luxembourg INTREAL is represented in Europe’s largest fund location, Luxembourg, INTREAL Luxembourg is an independent AIFM and central administrator for Luxembourg real estate funds.
English
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German
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KONII: IREMIS erstes Closing des IREMIS Hotel Immobilienfonds I
French
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Le letter M2: Iremis Sarl : premier closing de son fonds dédié aux hotels
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Message from the Shareholders
Jos Short and Jochen Schaefer-Suren are delighted to announce the launch of our new real estate investment and asset management firm IREMIS.
For more than a decade governments and central banks have dealt with crises by providing numerous subsidies and liquidity at ultra-low interest rates leading to ever higher debts and inflated asset values. This made investment management easier facilitating the emergence of passive investment management.
Recent challenges like Covid, increased geo-political tensions and climate change have led to an unprecedented combination of economic disruptions, higher cost, inflation and interest rates as well as behavioural changes by consumers or business like the reversal of globalisation affecting the political, social and economic as well as capital market outlook across the globe.
All real estate classes will be affected by this more complicated economic and financial context requiring anew more active fund management by experienced specialist investment managers. Nowhere is this more valid than for complex real estate asset classes like hotel and leisure which are most affected by the above challenges and require specialist expertise to capture the significant opportunities in hotel and leisure this world of change will bring for the next few years.
Hence “IREMIS“ = Innovative Real Estate Management & Investment Solutions. Our new firm will focus on specialist sectors and to overcome these challenges with a senior team with the expertise, track record and network in hotel, leisure, and retail to develop innovative solutions and investment and asset management strategies to achieve above average returns in this context. Specifically, we will provide strategic and restructuring advisory, investment transaction and asset management services in private and public markets as well as separate account and fund management together with partners and investors. We can add value not only for our institutional investor clientele, but also lenders and occupiers. We will be active in core; value add and opportunistic strategies and also co-investments across Europe.
IREMIS has already a team with 80+ years of pan-European experience and track record and initially will have a presence in the UK, Germany, Spain and Luxemburg but grow into a Pan-European investment management company. Based on the track record and experience of its founders and initial team, IREMIS will start with a Hotel and Leisure division led by Peter Lenhardt. He was Jochen’s right-hand man for many years at Internos/Principal where Jochen was the CEO of Principal Real Estate Europe's Hotel and Leisure division, and managed very successful Hotel real estate funds and separate accounts. We are in the process of creating a retail division. Today we are a team of 5 experienced professionals and are happy to elaborate on our team and plans.