Real estate

Real alternatives in real estate

As a UK investor, you're probably familiar with the notion of investing in real estate through owning your own home, or perhaps through the buy-to-let market. Individuals can also access the real estate market in different ways – through funds that invest directly in commercial real estate, such as retail premises, offices and industrial units, or by investing in the shares of real estate companies. Alternatively, REITs (real estate investment trusts) have become another extremely popular option for investors all over the world.

What makes it attractive?

Many people find there’s something reassuring about investing in real estate – maybe because bricks and mortar represent a tangible, physical asset that’s readily accessible and easily understood. Others are attracted by its stability, as many investors tend to view real estate as a less volatile alternative to options such as equities. Although returns from real estate investment aren't guaranteed, including real estate in your portfolio can be a great way to diversify your assets.

Expertise that opens doors

More and more investors are recognising the value of turning to a professional real estate fund manager to improve their chances of positive returns. Bringing in the experts makes sense – most people simply don’t have the time, in-depth knowledge or resources needed to create a diversified portfolio of commercial real estate investments. This is where we can help.

As one of the largest real estate fund managers in Europe, we have all the expertise you would expect – in research, development, marketing, rent collection, credit assessment and accounting. To give you an idea of scale, we manage more than 500 properties across Europe, with a market value of £10.1 billion.*

Find out how you can benefit from our range of real estate funds.