The Fund’s second strategic pillar is its focus on multi-tenant office buildings.

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 (including discounted cash flows of leaseholds obligations) of € 1,012 million (18 assets, 264,530 m²) at year-end 2019

The Fund made no acquisitions in 2019 and invested in the redevelopment and optimisation of the quality of the Fund’s assets. The size of the Fund's total portfolio stood at € 1 billion at year-end 2019 compared with € 747 million at year-end 2018.

Portfolio composition at year-end 2019:

In 2019, the occupancy rate increased to 90.0% from 89.2% at portfolio level.

The Fund realised a total return of 20.3% in 2019 (plan: 7.2%; 2018: 11.4%), almost entirely driven by a higher capital growth than forecast, which came in at 17.7% (plan: 4.5%; 2018: 9.1%), while the income return came in at 2.3% (plan: 2.7%; 2018:

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.

The Fund uses BREEAM to measure and assess the overall sustainability of its buildings. The BREEAM methodology covers a wide range of subjects; from energy to transport, from vegetation and materials to indoor climate quality.