Patron Capital, the pan-European institutional investor focused on property-backed investments, together with Bluestone, the Milan-based Real Estate developer with over 20-year experience in the development of residential projects, and FREO Group, has agreed the acquisition of a development site in the south east of Milan, with plans to to deliver a 18,000 sq m complex of 200 apartments.

IPE D.A.CH Editor-in-Chief Frank Schnattinger spoke with Prof. Dr. Hartmut Leser, Partner, Spokesman of the Management Board Germany and CIO of the FREO Group, about his move from Aberdeen Standard Investments to the private markets specialist and the current challenges in real estate investments.

BC Partners Real Estate, the real estate investment arm of leading international investment firm, together with FREO Group (“FREO”), today announced the completion of their joint acquisition of the office building located at Gran Vía de les Corts Catalanes 764, in the city centre of Barcelona.

Pictet Alternative Advisors and FREO Group have acquired a last mile logistics asset located in Montreuil. The 9,000 sqm warehouse has a prime location within the A86 Paris ring road and highways A3/A4.

Prof. Dr Hartmut Leser has been appointed Partner and CIO of FREO Group on 1 September 2022. He will also take on the role of Spokesman of the Management Board of FREO Germany GmbH, based in Frankfurt.

AnaCap Financial Partners (“AnaCap”) and FREO Group (“FREO”) have secured planning consent to reposition a vacant 11,000 sq m office building in Puteaux, Paris into a new 645-bed student accommodation and co-living development.

Established in 1996, FREO Group is an independent international investor, developer and manager of high quality real estate. From 13 offices in Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Luxembourg and the USA, FREO has worked on more than 60 projects totalling around 2.4 Mio sqms.

Cain International (‘Cain’), the privately held investment firm operating in the United States and Europe, and its joint venture partner, FREO Group (“FREO”), have agreed the first letting at Koryfeum, an 80,400 sq m office development in Munich. Cain’s European Real Estate Opportunity Fund I (‘EREO I’) acquired a 50 per cent stake in the asset in May 2021.

AnaCap Financial Partners (“AnaCap”) and FREO Group (“FREO”), the trusted operating partner of global investors that provides unrivalled access to on-the-ground real estate experts in Europe, the UK and the US, have acquired Axe Etoile, a 10,600 sq m office building in Nanterre in the western suburbs of Paris, from Catalyst Capital.

Interview with Sven Andersen, Chief Financial Officer & Partner FREO Group S.A.

FREO Group is an independent, international investment manager and developer. Established in 1996 as FERI Real Estate, it became FREO in 2002, following an MBO led by Matthias Luecker, and has developed an extensive real estate portfolio over the last 25 years.

FREO Group, the trusted operating partner of global investors that provides unrivalled access to on-the-ground real estate experts in Europe, the UK and the US, has secured planning consent for the development of 2,800 sq m of Grade A sustainable office space in Berlin’s popular Mitte district.

FREO Group, the trusted operating partner of global investors that provides unrivalled access to on-the-ground real estate experts in Europe, the UK and the US, has launched a new platform aiming to invest €400 million in hotels in Spain on behalf of institutional capital.

Cain International’s European Real Estate Opportunity Fund I has agreed to acquire a 50 per cent stake in Koryfeum, an 80,400 sq m office development in Munich, representing Cain’s debut transaction in the German market, in joint venture with FREO Group.

The office and commercial building TRION at Leipziger Platz – developed by the AGIB Real Estate Group – is nearing completion. After a construction period spanning over three years and completed under the most difficult foundation conditions due to the intersecting metro and suburban rail lines, the TRION office and commercial building now appears with a finely structured and elegantly bright façade.

Is this the death of the office? Pierre Kreemer, Head of Real Estate KPMG Luxembourg, and Sven Andersen, CFO FREO Group, discuss the future impact of the value of commercial real estate.

Building work on the JED 2226 project in Schlieren, Switzerland is about to start. The initial site preparation work is already underway. As project developer, general planner and construction manager, FREO was involved from the outset in the project “New Build JED 2226” in Schlieren, Switzerland.

AnaCap Financial Partners and FREO Group have agreed the forward purchase of a 11,100 sq m office development in the south of Paris from the COFFIM Group.

The FREO Group has intensified its engagement in the Paris office market with the acquisition of a new project named Collisee II. The existing offices currently comprise 11, 488 sqm and are located in the Saint-Ouen region in the north of Paris.

Despite the adverse impact of the COVID crisis, the FREO Spain team has successfully completed the refurbishment, legalization and LEED Platinum certification of their 22Works building, ca. GLA 8,500 sqm, located in Calle Almogavers 185, in the center of the 22@Barcelona district in Barcelona and subsequently handed it over to the French multinational Criteo who had previously pre-let the entire property in mid 2018.

In July 2020, in an off-market transaction, the FREO Group purchased a development site at Seydelstrasse 14 in Berlin’s Mitte district, where they will build an office building with a gross floor space of 3,100 square metres. The property is being constructed as a gap closure, and it is going to be an innovative, modern, commercial building offering state-of-the-art building technology and office equipment.

The FREO Group (FREO), an international investor, developer and asset manager, has celebrated the official laying of the foundation stone for the first phase of the KORYFEUM office campus on Landshuter Strasse in Unterschleissheim.
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FREO, together with its partner CAIN International, has acquired the JUNO portfolio from Merlin Properties for €225 Mn, with a yield of 5.2%.