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.

Sustainable building certificates enable us to show where we are in terms of sustainability at asset level and how far we still have to go.

Our tenants are among our most important stakeholders and we have made a good deal of progress in terms of truly engaging and getting to know our tenants in recent years. Our target for 2019 was to achieve an overall score of 7.0.

Our ambition is to have 60% of our total portfolio in the affordable mid-rental segment category (€ 720 to € 1,000; as per January 2020, € 737 and € 1,027).

Bouwinvest Dutch Institutional Residential Fund N.V. (the ‘Fund’) was established in 2010. The Fund has a governance structure that ensures effective and efficient management, combined with proper checks and balances.

The Fund is structured as an investment company with variable capital, as defined in article 2:76a of the Dutch Civil Code, with its corporate seat in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

This is the risk that the value of the real estate in the Fund fluctuates due to supply and demand mechanisms in the markets in which the Fund operates.

Monitoring risks is embedded in the daily activities of the responsible line manager and is an integral part of the planning and control cycle.

The following market trends reflect the main opportunities and threats the Bouwinvest Dutch Institutional Residential Fund will take into account as it seeks to meet its strategic objectives in the period ahead.