Our approach to real estate equity

We bring together our research-led view on key thematic trends and deep understanding of local market dynamics across Europe. Investing with conviction and discipline, we aim to find value in the places where people want to live, work, play and learn and focus on long-term demand drivers and structural changes. We aim to create value for investors through active management throughout each asset’s lifecycle.

Our product suite aims to meet client needs across the risk spectrum. We can tailor our real estate equity solutions as part of broader multi-asset or multi-sector offerings, or they can be focused on specific thematic opportunities by sector or geography.  We seek to deliver alpha by leveraging our collective market insight into the inherently inefficient and cyclical nature of real estate.

Benefits of real estate equity

Real estate equity can create value to meet a variety of investment goals.

Value creation

We aim to enhance returns through asset repositioning, development and rigorous active management.

Illiquidity premium

The private nature of the asset class, together with the network needed to access it, typically commands an illiquidity premium.

Full risk spectrum

A wide array of solutions to meet a diverse set of investment objectives.

Real estate equity strategies

Aviva Investors Real Estate Active LTAF (REALTAF)

REALTAF consists of an initial £1.5bn, strategically constructed portfolio of direct real estate assets seeded by Aviva UK Life. Actively managed and benchmark agnostic, the Fund strategy will be driven by a structural thematic approach and a long-term, demand-driven outlook. The Fund has been launched under the LTAF regime, enabling a broad range of Institutional and professional investors to access real assets investments more easily, whilst ensuring that the liquidity of the underlying assets is better aligned with that of the Fund.

Key risks of real estate equity strategies

Investment risk

The value of an investment and any income from it can go down as well as up and can fluctuate in response to changes in currency and exchange rates. Investors may not get back the original amount invested.

Real estate risk

Where funds are invested in real estate, investors may not be able to redeem any units in the fund when they want because real estate assets may not always be readily saleable. If this is the case, we may defer a request to switch or cash in shares or units.

Valuation risk

Certain assets held in the fund could, by nature, be hard to value or to sell at a desired time or at a price considered to be fair (especially in large quantities), and as a result their prices could be very volatile.

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Real Assets Study 2024

Demand remains strong, but the investment drivers are changing. At a time of macroeconomic uncertainty, real assets continue to play a significant role in the investment strategies of global institutions. The sixth edition of the Aviva Investors Real Assets Study is our biggest yet and seeks to answer some key questions. 

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