The main focus of the Fund’s Convenience portfolio is on district shopping centres and standalone supermarkets with healthy catchment areas, together with assets in a rapidly emerging new retail segment, stores in high-traffic locations.

The built environment consumes around 40% of the world’s energy and accounts for up to 30% of the world’s annual GHG emissions. Additionally, the building industry is a large user of raw materials.

The Fund applies a defined set of diversification guidelines and investment restrictions in the execution of its strategy. The Fund will adhere to the following investment restrictions to focus on its core activity and to limit risks.

Total property value of € 957 million in Dutch retail properties (59 assets, 240,496 m2 NLA) at year-end 2019

In 2019, the Fund acquired two high street retail assets and sold a total of seven assets. Furthermore, the Fund invested in the optimisation of the quality of its assets.

At year-end 2019, the Fund’s portfolio consisted of a total of 59 assets. Of these, 28 assets are classified as Experience and 21 assets are classified as Convenience.

In 2019, the Fund managed to increase the average occupancy of the portfolio to 96.5% (95.2% in 2018).

The Fund realised a total return of 4.3% in 2019 (plan: 6.9%; 2018: 5.6%) consisting of 4.2% income return (plan: 4.5%; 2018: 3.5%) and 0.1% in capital growth (plan: 2.4%; 2018: 2.0%).

At Bouwinvest, we believe that we cannot ensure long-term successful investments without taking the needs of society into account, as the two are inextricably linked.

Our sustainable real estate strategy is built on two pillars: certified sustainable assets and the reduction of environmental impact.