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20.02.2024
Global Real Estate: A New Cycle Awaits
Real Estate Investments Indirect Global
Financial market
The global real estate asset class currently represents a compelling opportunity for investors seeking attractively priced investment opportunities with sound fundamentals. The interest rate hikes of the last two years have triggered a significant correction in international real estate prices.
15.01.2024
Improvement of sustainability targets, GRESB assessment and tenant satisfaction through tenant survey
Real Estate Investments Direct Switzerland
Real estate funds
Project development
What is the best way for property owners to meet tenants’ requirements in terms of convenience, organisation and sustainability? In order to cover these factors and offer tenants the most comfortable living conditions possible, a broad-based tenant survey was carried out by the SF Sustainable Property Fund in the first half of 2023.
10.01.2024
Achievements in volatile markets - SFP Infrastructure Partners (2/3)
Infrastructure Investments
Real Assets
Currently we are closing our fifth investment – a secondary. It is an investment in the US renewable space. In addition, we are onboarding our 13th investor with a healthy pipeline of prospective investors. What a sense of achievement in a challenging time. This is the second part of our trilogy…
07.12.2023
Infrastructure investments and their benefits for your portfolio
Real Assets
Infrastructure Investments
What are infrastructure investments? Why are they essential to a portfolio and why is infrastructure an attractive asset class? How can investors and the economy benefit from infrastructure investments? Cledan Mandri-Perrott, Co-Head Investments and Partner of SFP Infrastructure Partners, answers these questions and many more in an informative video.
22.11.2023
Energy transition: focus on HCIs using a practical case from our portfolio
Real Estate Investments Direct Switzerland
Sustainability
Project development
The canton of Geneva is currently debating whether the GEAK standard established in Switzerland should be used in future to reduce CO2 emissions in buildings instead of the heat consumption index (IDC) currently in use. Philippe Bach, Asset Manager Real Estate Direct, explains which solutions are possible within IDC and GEAK using the example of a property in the portfolio.
14.11.2023
The Visionaries - Partners' Statement of SFP Infrastructure Partners (1/3)
Infrastructure Investments
Real Assets
Project development
How was SFP Infrastructure Partners founded? Find out directly from the partners how this joint venture with SFP Group came about – it all started over a coffee at "La Stanza" on a cold winter's day.
18.10.2023
Construction projects: Refurbishment in occupied condition
Project development
Real Estate Investments Direct Switzerland
Real estate funds
In the current article, Markus Karl, Head Construction Manager Real Estate Direct at Swiss Finance & Property Funds Ltd, uses two construction projects in the SF Sustainable Property Fund to illustrate the challenges that arise when renovating a building while it is still occupied. He also describes in a clear manner the regulatory hurdles that have to be overcome in such a project.
13.09.2023
A Promising Entry Point into Global Real Estate
Financial market
Over the past year, international real estate markets have experienced significant repricing, leading to yields in some markets surging to levels unprecedented since the global financial crisis. Despite this, real estate fundamentals in most markets have remained solid, with an exception to the office sector in the US.
22.08.2023
Neighbourhood development: modern, sustainable and profitable
Real Estate Investments Direct Switzerland
Expectations of modern-day living spaces are continuously rising. Not only have the needs of tenants changed, but so have those of investors and society. The following article explains what should be kept in mind for sustainable neighbourhood development, and provides examples of successful implementation.
20.06.2023
The end of the low-interest period: new challenges on the capital market
Financial market
Stock exchange
Project development
The Corporate Finance & Capital Markets team of Swiss Finance & Property Ltd has reached another milestone. In spring 2023, Swiss Finance & Property Ltd for the first time acted as sole lead manager for a capital increase of Orascom Development Holding AG. Thanks to meticulous planning and optimal timing, the only issue of equities by a Swiss listed real estate company so far this year could be executed successfully in spite of the challenging market environment.
12.05.2023
Citius, altius, fortius – are commercial rental contracts Olympian in nature?
Real Estate Investments Direct Switzerland
“Faster, Higher, Stronger”, or “citius, altius, fortius” in Latin – this is the Olympic motto. And we can certainly ascribe Olympian qualities to commercial rental contracts. They contain more comprehensive and ambitious conditions than the standard rental contracts for residential properties. In particular, the fast and extensive adjustment of rents to inflation seems to be setting a record in these times of rising inflation.