Secure allocations. Build relationships. Find investments.
Understand where the greatest opportunities exist across EMEA private real estate markets at the 17th annual PERE Europe Summit on 14-16 June 2022.
Connect with the region’s most influential institutional investors, fund and asset managers, developers, and strategic partners to scale and align your investment strategies to the essential real estate of the future.
- Build lasting relationships
- Discover investment opportunities
- Understand local trends and challenges across Europe’s leading markets
Accelerate your fundraising
Easy access and interaction with European investors allocating across a wide spectrum of real estate strategies and geographies.
Expand your investor network in Europe
Meet the right European investors and understand their preferences for allocations across the continent.
Learn new allocation trends
Navigate specialist markets with dedicated Borrowers & Lenders and ESG & Impact Forums. Dissect various strategies and hot topics that can enhance your portfolio.
Keynote Q&A with Bouwinvest and AXA
Finding returns in a new real estate climate
The exclusive 30-minute Q&A session with Stephen will share the €14.1 billion specialist Dutch real estate investor’s evolving international investment approach and where they’re looking to find risk-adjusted returns.
Stephen Tross
Chief Investment Officer – International Investments, Bouwinvest
Getting ahead of the curve – a deep dive into AXA’s real estate strategy
One of the global leaders in real estate – Isabelle Scemama, will have an in-depth discussion on how the €110bn investor has developed its strategy to stay one step ahead of the pack in a fiercely competitive market.
Isabelle Scemama
Global Head of AXA IM Alts and Chief Executive Officer of AXA IM – Real Assets, AXA
Discussion topics that shape European markets
Download the agenda to see the trends impacting European investors and markets, including:
- Dissect post-pandemic investor strategies and appetite change
- Explore the current landscape of real estate markets
- Identify whether Hotels, offices, retail real estate are repurposing, divestment or investment?
- Learn how to optimize ESG opportunities into your portfolio and much more.
Meet Europe’s leading real estate network
2022 speakers include
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- Attend the Europe Summit in London
- All of PERE’s global events
- PERE Connect – our new tailored networking service
- Access to the investor directory
- Frequent virtual and in-person networking opportunities
- And much more …
Discuss strategies with our speakers in-person
If you want to join the speaking faculty contact Boris Petrovic today.
Philippe Deloffre
Managing Director, Real Estate, Head of European Debt Origination, ICG Real Estate
Isabelle Scemama
Global Head of AXA IM Alts, Member of AXA IM Management Board, Member of the Board of Directors of EPRA
Year-round private real estate networking
The 16th PERE Europe Forum will be held in person in London and virtually on our industry-leading platform.
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Europe Forum attendees shape global markets
Your access to the 16th annual PERE Europe Forum will provide more value than ever before, with year-round access to a little blackbook of global real estate’s most influential community.
Close your fund more efficiently.
Utilize year-round access to a little black book of Europe’s LPs allocating across a wide spectrum of real estate strategies and geographies.
Uncover high-yield opportunities.
Advance your strategic edge on the competition by gaining action-led, unique insights from the thought-leaders shaping the industry.
Expand your network with the right people.
Connect with decision-makers across the globe who can help you create value for your firm
The PERE Debt and Finance Forum will analyze the strategies of alternative and traditional lenders across Europe as governments across the continent end their support schemes.
Join us in-person in London or virtually on 21-22 September alongside the 16th annual PERE Europe Forum.
21-22 September 2021
Stay connected with the global network
Kevin Colket
Founder and CEO, Global Hospitality Investment Group
PERE goes out of their way to bring GPs, LPs and other people from the industry together, to not only discuss ideas, but even discuss new deals.
Joanne McNamara
Head of Investments - Europe, Oxford Properties
A very informative and enjoyable conference with great attendees and speakers.
Simon Mallinson
Executive Managing Director, Real Capital Analytics
PERE offers a great opportunity to network with senior industry professionals. Fantastic two days.
Covid precautions
To help keep you and your peers safe, we have embraced some common principles to ensure the smooth running of the global PERE events portfolio.
Europe Forum attendees get more
By attending the Europe Forum you will join real estate’s most influential global network. Membership will give you:
- Access to the Europe Forum
- Virtual access to all of PERE’s global events
- Access to the investor directory
- Frequent virtual and in-person networking opportunities
- And much more …
Explore the trends shaping real estate capital flow
Download the agenda to see the trends shaping European investor allocation strategies and markets across the region. These topics will shape the discussions at the PERE Europe Summit 2022.
Have a topic that you would like to discuss on the agenda? Contact Boris Petrovic today.
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The Europe Summit is our flagship gathering in the region. Attendees are exclusively decision-makers at the leading private real estate investors, fund and asset managers, and developers across the globe. Sponsorship gives you:
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- High-profile branding opportunities
- And much, much more …
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View the key conversation topics
Download the agenda to see the trends shaping European investors allocation strategies and markets across the region.
On day 3 of the Summit, the Borrowers & Lenders Forum will finance the future of European real estate and the ESG & Impact Forum will identify opportunities to create real world sustainability across assets and funds.
Have a topic that you would like to discuss on the agenda? Contact Boris Petrovic today.
Agenda
PERE Europe Forum 2022 - Investor day - Tuesday 14th
Registration opens and morning coffee
PERE welcome
Welcome & chair’s opening remarks
Europe’s institutional investor panel: what does real estate investing look like in the next decade?
- How are fund investors looking to adjust their allocations in 2022 and beyond?
- Which sectors are investors prioritising and what types are product resonate the most at present?
- What is investors’ appetite for specialist vs generalist managers?
- To what extent are inflationary concerns making real estate a more attractive destination for capital?
- How are investors viewing the impact of inflation on their investments and strategy going forward?
- What is investor appetite for ‘alternative’ investment types such as SPACs, REITs and proptech funds?
Moderated by Paul Gibson, Chief Investment Officer – EMEA Direct Real Estate Strategies, CBRE Investment Management
Networking break
Keynote Q+A with Bouwinvest: finding returns in a new real estate climate
- Hear from the CIO of international investments of Bouwinvest, the €14.1 billion specialist Dutch real estate investor
- Discover priorities for indirect real estate exposure in Europe and globally in the coming years
- Learn more on Bouwinvest’s evolving investment approach and where they’re looking to find risk-adjusted returns
- Understand which sectors, geographies and strategies are resonating most with one of Europe’s leading fund investors
Europe as an investment destination
- Hear from global institutional investors give their perspective on Europe as a place to put their capital
- What are the key risks, opportunities and barriers that global investors see when assessing the region?
- How does the region compare to other geographies and markets
- Which sectors and strategies are non-European investors looking to get exposure to?
- What unique opportunities does Europe offer relative to other markets globally?
Moderated by Richard Pilkington, Senior Managing Director, Head of European Real Estate, Cain International
Richard Pilkington
Senior Managing Director, Head of European Real Estate, Cain International
Read bioLunch
Afternoon keynote: Getting ahead of the curve - a deep dive into AXA’s real estate strategy
Hear from one of the global leaders in real estate – Isabelle Scemama, Global Head of AXA IM Alts and Chief Executive Officer of AXA IM – Real Assets – to hear an in-depth discussion on how the €110bn investor has developed its strategy to stay one step ahead of the pack in a fiercely competitive market.
- How is AXA IM Alts leading the market in new sectors like life sciences while re-inventing established sectors like office?
- As more and more of its real estate investing becomes direct, what does AXA IM look for in its real estate partners?
- How is the concept of flexibility being implemented in repositioning properties in office and other sectors?
- What opportunities are presented by asset obsolescence – and how is AXA IM Alts futureproofing its real estate assets?
- How is ESG being incorporated into its investment, development and repositioning strategies?
Moderated by Evelyn Lee, Editor, PERE
Climate strategy and the built environment
- How are assets owners implementing net zero commitments as they pertain to real assets?
- How are appraisers considering climate risk in valuations and transactions?
- How are institutional investors looking to identify, quantify and integrate climate risk into their investment decision making?
- How are climate considerations influencing manager selection and location/sector exposure and acquisitions?
- How are LP implementing their net zero commitments in practice?
- What data are LPs requesting from their managers when it comes to carbon emissions?
Moderated by Tzvete Doncheva, International Investor Relations Lead, PropTech1
Innovations and emerging opportunities in real estate credit
- What strategies are some of Europe’s leading debt funds pursuing?
- How are institutional investors viewing the role of debt with their portfolios in the next 5 years?
- What’s new products and innovation are up and coming in the market such as Sale & Lease Backs and Nett Leases?
- What opportunities does debt offer to the portfolio mix that equity investments lack in the new real estate market?
- How are investors looking to gain exposure to the debt market in Europe and globally?
Moderated by Anne Gales, Partner, Threadmark
Networking break
Your customers’ customer: insight into the real estate needs of corporates
- How are large corporates looking at their future real estate needs?
- What are the evolving needs of corporate supply chains, and what opportunities does this present to private investors and operators?
- What are the priorities for corporate lease holder when it comes to design, wellbeing and sustainability of buildings?
Moderated by Mary-Louise Gray, Chief Operating Officer, Occupier Services EMEA, Colliers
Chair’s closing remarks
Networking drinks
End of day one
Agenda
PERE Europe Forum 2022 - Essential real estate - Wednesday 15th
Registration opens and morning coffee
Welcome & chair’s opening remarks
Overview of leading fund manager strategies
- To what extent are investors finding it difficult to deploy capital?
- How are managers thinking about inflation?
- What strategies are helping managers to hedge and diversify risk such as mixed-use?
- How are fund managers adapting their investment thinking to meet the needs of the pandemic-hit environment?
- How are investor organising themselves to access ‘niche’ sectors?
- To what extent are manager pursuing ‘contrarian strategies’ in retail and offices?
Moderated by Sean Egan, CEO, Egan-Jones Ratings Company
Networking break
Keynote: Macroeconomic trends and the implications for real estate investing
- Discover how to align your investment strategy to the evolving economic picture in Europe and globally
- Hear from a leading economist on the macroeconomic trends influencing real estate investing in the coming years
- Learn about the impact of demographics and inflation on the global real estate market
Sabina Reeves
Chief Economist & Head of Insights & Intelligence, CBRE Investment Management
Read bioHow to scale deployment in the ‘new economy’ portfolio
- Data centres, life sciences, residential and other social infrastructure – what’s the amount of opportunity in these new economy sectors and their investment capacity?
- What will be the new normal for hospitality demand and how are funds navigating investment in the sector?
- What resources are investors taking on to facilitate effective operational strategies?
- What strategies are investors pursuing to gain exposure in data centres and more broadly the digital economy?
- What are the unique challenges and risks in building an operational model in emerging sectors?
Moderated by Sarah Acheson, Investment Director – Real. Estate, Cambridge Associates
Lunch
Deep dive into contrarian strategies: where are value-add and opportunistic managers looking for returns?
- Accounting for obsolescence risk when pricing assets?
- How are investors viewing opportunities in the hospitality, offices, and retail sectors?
- What are the been the lasting impact of the pandemic on demand in the most hard-hit sectors?
- When, or will, distressed opportunities for discounted assets in these sectors emerge?
- To what extent are investor repositioning away from hard hit sectors?
- What types of assets remain attractive in sectors that have been negatively impacted by the pandemic?
Moderated by Cristina Garcia-Peri, Senior Partner, Azora
Too hot to ignore: exploring the next phase of logistics and industrial investment
- What the landscape of the logistics and industrial market in Europe?
- What is the outlook on capital flows and yield compression for the market?
- What is the outlook on fundamental of supply-demand and trends in ecommerce in Europe?
- How are investors looking to future-proof their assets?
- What are the prospects for multistorey industrial in the UK?
- How to make value add returns from current land values in industrial?
- What are the economics of value-add development in industrial assets
Moderated by Lisa Graham, Director EMEA Industrial & Logistics Research & Strategy, JLL
Networking break
Finding opportunities amongst the more nascent sectors
- Asset classes that have already ‘crossed over’ to becoming more mainstream and how they’ve performed since
- Asset classes poised for expansion
- Infrastructure-like asset classes – can these offer opportunity for real estate mandates?
Building platforms: How to create value through an operational strategy
- How are different investors taking on operational risk and looking to gain critical mass in alternative markets?
- How are investors calculating the optimal value balance between operational excellence and the added cost incurred?
- What are the lessons learnt in working with operating partners?
- How are investors deciding when to integrate operational management and when to outsource?
Moderated by James Jacobs, Managing Director, Lazard
Chair’s closing remarks
End of day two
Agenda
PERE Europe Forum 2022 - Real Estate Capital Borrowers & Lenders Forum & ESG & Impact Forum - Thursday 16th
Registration and networking
Welcome & chair’s opening remarks
Outlook of the real estate debt and finance market in Europe
- What will be the impact of inflation and rising interest rates on the real estate finance market in the coming 2-3 years?
- How are institutional investors looking at the role of real estate debt within their portfolios?
- What have the most notable deals taking place in the market in the last year?
Moderated by Daniel Cunningham, Editor, Real Estate Capital
Large loan syndications in Europe
- What are the challenges faced by underwriters in large loan deals?
- What is borrowers’ preference for clubs relative to one bank financing solutions?
- Liquidity sources for real estate debt
Moderated by Balaji Nagabhushan, Co-Founder and Partner, Conduit Real Estate
Keynote Q+A: a leading lender’s view of the real estate finance market
Registration and networking
Welcome & chair’s opening remarks
Fund investors’ perspectives on real estate sustainability
- What information demands are fund investors making on their real estate fund mangers when it comes to sustainability?
- Does investors’ drive to clean their portfolios means inefficient and currently unsustainable assets are jettisoned rather than ‘greened’?
- How high is sustainability on the agenda for different types of institutional investors?
Moderated by Toby Mitchenall, Senior Editor, ESG and Sustainability, New Private Markets
Leveraging ESG for value creation in real estate
- How can the influence of ESG in investment decision-making and asset management be maximised?
- What are the risks of ignoring a robust ESG effort?
- What examples do we have where ESG performance lead to higher valuation or yields?
- How are funds going about engaging tenets on sustainability and just how crucial is this as an aspect of ESG performance?
- How can funds plan a cost-efficient transition at the portfolio-level?
Moderated by Basil Demeroutis, Managing Partner, FORE Partnership
Overview of regulatory developments and the implications for real estate
- Making sense of SFDR, are you an article 8 or article 9 fund and what are the implications?
- How can you create value out of SFDR and EU taxonomy and help to position as an investor?
- What are the most notable upcoming regulations across key jurisdictions such as the FCA and EU?
- Discover where the key legal risks are when making impact claims and how efforts to stamp-out impact washing will evolve
Moderated by Anna Olink, Business Development Director, EMEA, GRESB
Networking break
Borrowers’ perspectives on the current financing climate
- To what extent are borrowers now comfortable with borrowing from non-bank lenders?
- How are borrowers looking to raise capital in 2022 and beyond?
- How are borrowers evaluating and diversifying different sources of finance?
- What are the main challenges in accessing finance from a borrower’s point of view?
- How are borrower’s finding responding to ESG data requests?
Moderated by Aida Feriz, Executive Director, Wimmer Family Office
Lending to ‘hard-hit’ sectors: retail hospitality and secondary offices
- At what price do more risky sectors become attractive to lenders?
- How have lending volumes to ‘embattled’ real estate sectors fared over the covid period?
- To what extent is retail activity bounced back?
- How are lenders vetting opportunities in traditional sectors and have there been significant adjustments to their risk appetite/underwriting?
Moderated by Adam Buchler, Managing Director, BBS Capital
Real estate impact investments: an overview of opportunities, funds and innovations
- How much appetite is there from impact allocators for real estate orientated product?
- What are the main considerations when launching an impact offering or product?
- To what extent should ‘impact investment’ thinking be integrated into mainstream investments?
- To what extent are returns concessionary?
Moderated by Vlad Masinsky, Head of Strategic Partnerships, Sharry
Charlie Jacques
Head of Sustainability and Impact Investment, Real Estate, Schroders Capital
Read bioCreating an affordable housing investment strategy
- What are the best examples of affordable housing models around the world that have taken off?
- How crucial is collaboration with local and national government– and what the lessons learnt in engaging public institutions and bodies?
- How is ‘affordability’ calculated?
- How do investors that are looking to maximise returns balancing this with the need for ‘affordable’, below-market-rate rents?
Moderated by Ding Li, Senior Strategy Consultant & Business Unit Lead, Longevity Partners
Networking lunch
How are lenders accessing opportunities in emerging sectors?
- How liquid are the ‘hot’ sectors such as single-family rentals, healthcare and content creation?
- How are lenders going about gaining exposure to alternative asset types?
- What are the main challenges in underwriting deals in life sciences, data centres and residential?
Moderated by Jonathan Jay, Partner, Conduit Real Estate
Philippe Deloffre
Managing Director, Real Estate, Head of European Debt Origination, ICG Real Estate
Read bioSustainability-linked loans: how are lenders incentivising impact and ESG in their portfolio?
- Is the cost of financing increasing for unsustainable projects or assets?
- How significant is the data burden that comes with sustainability performance measurement and reporting for borrowers?
- What are the main challenges are faced by lenders in creating credible EST-orientated incentives to their borrowers?
- What are some of the more innovative models being applied in the market to engage borrowers?
Moderated by Sophie Littler, Associate Director, Fundraising & Investor Relations, LendInvest
Closing remarks
Applying wellness as a value add to real estate assets
- What does the concept of ‘wellness’ in a real estate context?
- How is wellness calculated and to what extent does it add a premium to rents and tenet satisfaction?
- What example exist of buildings that have high ‘wellness’ ratings?
- How can the concept best be applied in different sectors?
Moderated by Tzvete Doncheva, International Investor Relations Lead, PropTech1
Going beyond a commitment: what does a net-zero real estate strategy mean in practice?
- How are managers measuring the carbon footprint from your existing portfolio?
- What are the main barriers being encountered on the net-zero pathway?
- How to reduce your energy usage in buildings via technology solutions?
- What are the leading frameworks which funds can use to build a climate strategy around?
Moderated by Chandra Eastwell, Associate Director – Sustainability, Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets
Hala El Akl
Vice President of Sustainable Investing and Operations, Oxford Properties Group
Read bioNetworking break
To rebuild or upgrade: calculating embodied carbon in real estate assets
- To what extent should buildings be upgraded rather than built from scratch – what the carbon cost of new buildings relative to building upgrades?
- What are the extra capex requirements in making buildings green?
- What policies and practices can be applied to minimise ‘embodied carbon’ during construction?
- How are investors attempting to increase the sustainability of existing stock?
Moderated by Snehal Shah, Reporter, New Private Markets
Closing remarks
End of forums
Covid precautions
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23 February 2022
Bouwinvest to keynote PERE Europe Summit
Keynote Q+A with Bouwinvest: finding returns in a new real estate climate
Hear from Stephen Tross, the CIO of international investments at Bouwinvest, the €14.1 billion specialist Dutch real estate investor.
During this exclusive Q+A, Tross will reveal his priorities for indirect real estate exposure in Europe and globally in the coming years. You will get intimate insight into Bouwinvest’s evolving investment approach and where they’re looking to find risk-adjusted returns.
Join us this June to discover which sectors, geographies, and strategies are resonating most with one of Europe’s leading fund investors.
Stephen Tross
Chief Investment Officer – International Investments
Bouwinvest
14 February 2022
Attendee list for Europe Summit released
Companies that attend the Europe Summit include:
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By attending the Europe Summit you will join real estate’s most influential global network. Being a member will give you access to:
- Attend the Europe Summit in London
- All of PERE’s global events
- PERE Connect – our new tailored networking service
- Access to the investor directory
- Frequent virtual and in-person networking opportunities
- And much more …