Name: Mid-market Infrastructure with Tom Maher
Start: 2023-10-12T10:26:00Z
End: 2023-10-12T10:26:03.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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With operations around the world, PATRIZIA has been offering investment opportunities in real estate and infrastructure assets for institutional, semi-professional and private investors for 39 years. PATRIZIA manages approx. EUR 58 billion in assets and employs around 1,000 professionals at 28 locations worldwide. PATRIZIA has been making an impact since 1984 by helping children in need, since 1992 in close collaboration with Bunter Kreis (“colourful circle”) in Germany for aftercare of children with severe diseases and since 1999 through its support for the PATRIZIA Foundation. The PATRIZIA Foundation has given more than 600.000 children and young people worldwide access to education, healthcare, and a safe home to get the chance to live a better self-determined life over the last 24 years. You can find further information at www.patrizia.ag and www.patrizia.foundation.

EXPO REAL – Europe’s largest real estate and investment fair – provided a great opportunity for those in the sector to come together and share their insights and perspectives on navigating the new market environment. With this in mind, and with the bulk of the year already behind us, we sought the views of PATRIZIA Head of Global Investment Strategy, Research & Investment Solutions, Mahdi Mokrane, on current market trends and what’s likely to come in 2024.

Watch the video below to hear Mahdi's thoughts on the following key topics:

- How the macro environment has developed this year and his expectations for 2024
- How the dual debt and decarbonisation funding gap is impacting the market
- Why it is important to offer investors a combined real assets platform
- The real estate sectors that are currently the most resilient and his outlook for 2024
- The three key strengths of PATRIZIA in this challenging market environment.

2024: Global Signals, Infrastructure Acceleration, and Resilient Real Estate

PATRIZIA CEO Asset Management & Development European Real Estate, Amal Del Monaco, examines three examples of how PATRIZIA implements distinctive value-add initiatives through active asset management to achieve a positive impact on the environment, as well as the well-being and social value of the end user.

Enhancing value with Asset Management

As the world’s population continues to grow, together with the rising megatrend of urbanisation, the shortage of decent, affordable housing as a global issue is becoming more acute and is reaching crisis levels. According to official statistics from Brussels, more than 220m households in the EU, and around 80m European citizens are overburdened by housing costs − many are even at risk of eviction.

To run cities efficiently and sustainably, people from all ages, backgrounds and income levels need to be able to find a place to live, work and access leisure, education and health care services within a reasonable time.

In the discussions about the challenges on the housing market the terms “housing affordability” and “affordable housing” are often used interchangeably when talking about things like a “lack of affordable housing” or claiming that “housing is not affordable”. How should we define affordable housing, or how does PATRIZIA look at affordable housing?

Solving this issue cannot only be the responsibility of the public sector. Public-private partnerships are needed. Real estate investors and managers working hand in hand can play an important role.

PATRIZIA has housing in its DNA and has been building communities and sustainable futures since its foundation in 1984.  Around a third of PATRIZIA's AUM are residential and PATRIZIA is committed to aligning its residential fund products to the highest ESG standards and building certifications.

It is perhaps no coincidence that PATRIZIA recently developed an impact investing strategy called ‘PATRIZIA Sustainable Communities’ which contributes towards solving the affordable housing issue where this is needed in major metropolitan areas in Europe.

Our speakers aim to share their perspectives and insights on:

• The affordable housing crisis in Europe
• How real estate investors and managers can be part of the solution, and
• How and why impact investing can contribute to solving the affordability issue

Affordable housing: A building block for creating sustainable communities

Real estate investment managers have a responsibility to build sustainable communities. They are the ones to invest in and create homes, workspaces and leisure facilities for countless people. 
 
Sometimes we overlook the social pillar of “ESG” – the “S” – on the journey to net zero. Growing pressure to deliver on the environmental targets of the 2050 Paris accord mean the “E” of ESG has often taken centre stage 
 
However, loneliness, social inequality, poor access to education / healthcare and lacking diversity, are increasingly important topics for governments and urban planners as they seek to mitigate the economic impact of Covid-19.
 
So, what role can real estate investment houses play in making a positive contribution in solving these challenges? And how do their clients benefit?
 
PATRIZIA has residential real estate in its DNA and has been building communities and sustainable futures since its foundation in 1984.
 
In what promises to be a thought provoking discussion, Mathieu Elshout, Head of Sustainability and Impact Investing, and his PATRIZIA colleague, Marleen Bikker-Bekkers, Head of Investments Europe, PGP, who is working on new impact investment products, are joined by Sarah Forster, CEO and Co-Founder of the Good Economy Partnership. Sarah is a leading expert in sustainable economic development with a particular interest in social enterprise, impact measurement and management.
 
The panel will address key industry trends in the social impact investing space, consider real life best practice examples and of course address the holy grail of measuring social impact.

The webcast will give valuable insights and will include the following topics:

– What is the relevance of social impact for real estate? 
– What examples or case studies of social impact in real estate are there?
– Why social impact investing must be measurable and how?
– What returns can social impact investors realistically expect and over what timelines?

Lifting the lid on the “S” of ESG: how to build sustainable communities

– Against a weak macro-economic environment, investment grade fixed income yields are and will remain ultra-low

– Fixed income is now more a dying asset class than a no-brainer for asset allocators, and real assets offer investors higher yielding solutions

– Thanks to superior cash flow characteristics and capital value preservation, diversified residential, in Europe in particular, is an excellent substitute for fixed income

– There is a 250-300 basis point yield spread compared with an average ten-year government bond yield

– With inflation concerns rising, residential is a good natural hedge thanks to explicit rental indexation

– Looking ahead, European residential will emerge strongly from COVID-19

– Post COVID-19, European residential markets offer investment opportunities across the risk spectrum … but investors need to rely on experienced and well-resourced managers to reap the benefits of this large market

Fixed income is dying, long live residential!

PATRIZIA Infrastructure Manging Director Tom Maher discusses the potential of Mid-Market Assets in the future in accordance with the current four macro trends impacting the Investment Infrastructure scenario.

Mid-market Infrastructure with Tom Maher

Infrastructure

Infrastructure Management

Mid-Market

Decarbonisation

Digitalisation

Demographic

Climate Change

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