European Real Estate

Seneca Asset Management entered the European real estate market in 2008 when it managed an affiliate’s participation in one of the first large real estate privatization transactions in Sweden. To date, Seneca Asset Management or its affiliates have successfully completed over €3.6 billion of acquisitions across Europe including the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Scandinavia and the Netherlands. Our European real estate investment team seeks to identify opportunities across sectors and jurisdictions which exhibit high-quality cash flows, locations and structural integrity. Typically pursuing investments with equity requirements between €25 million and €100 million, the team looks for properties where value can be added by injecting both capital and development or operational expertise.

Seneca Asset Management’s European real estate investment team seeks to diversify across asset classes, markets and investment risks. We endeavor to focus upon real estate fundamentals and to add value and minimize risk through structuring and by employing our understanding of the development, operation and management of real estate. Our team attempts to understand the key risks of each transaction and to transform those risks into opportunities to unlock value. Throughout Europe we continue to invest with an emphasis on office, light industrial and warehouse, retail/mixed use and residential. We typically seek: