REInvest’s investment strategy is twofold

Switzerland offers an interesting and stable investment environment with low interest rates. The Swiss real estate market reacts generally to the same triggers as equivalent US and European markets, although with somewhat of a time lag, permitting better visibility and allowing market anticipation.

Switzerland's historic confinement, its 23 cantons with different legal structures, and ongoing oligopolistic modus operandi generate market inefficiencies. As a result, Switzerland provides numerous untapped investment opportunities.

At this time, the high proportion of ownership and the high quality of commercial real estate owned by Swiss medium-sized companies combined with the current contraction of industrial financing in Switzerland provides an exceptionally attractive investment opportunity.

As is the case in Germany, REInvest has been selected by a key group of its investors to apply the same quality of investment processes and controls on a foreign market. By bringing its set of international real estate best practices to bear, REInvest as Investment Manager is driving the acquisition and asset management process, but always in partnership with an identified local market player, who brings  core local market knowledge and relationships..

On the back of its successes - a long investment track record in Asset Management on its core market, and the ongoing implementation of its Investment Management strategy, REInvest is currently underwriting for its investors further additional investments outside of Switzerland . Niche products both for core European markets, and for specialized emerging markets are planned.

REI International was launched with the vision of expanding REI’s investment scope beyond the limitations of its home market, and to offer its investors access in particular to emerging market growth. Applying real estate best practices learned at groups such as Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs and the Soros Group, the REI team began evaluating international investment opportunities with joint-venture partners in 2004.

The international expansion began with a joint venture project with Bouran Construction in Jordan, for the construction of a 2’600 m2 office building in the CBD of Amman. The project was completed in 2008 and will deliver an unleveraged 15-20% IRR to investors. At the present time, no further projects in Jordan are planned.

In Germany, REI acted as Investment Advisor to NIS Investment Solutions, in acquiring and managing a €50 M portfolio of multi-family assets in Berlin, including on loft redevelopment, www.box117.de.

In Mexico, REI manages the growth of a land bank, which has to date invested some USD 10mm into beachfront properties on the Pacific Coast, as well as having taken a stake in the Queretaro based developer, Centurion Real Estate  & Resorts, which is currently building two projects of 350 homes each, in the middle income and upper-middle brackets (see www.otomi-lv.com). REI intends to deepen its investments in Mexico as a strategic growth market for the future.

In 2001, Mr. Meyer, founded REInvest SA to capture real estate opportunities in the Swiss real estate market in continuation with his real estate investment activity since 1992 with REInvest-Meyer. Mr. Meyer has been an independent real estate investor in Switzerland since 1992, building up a substantial portfolio of multi-family housing in Geneva. Over the course of the different investment cycles, Mr. Meyer has been focusing later on commercial and industrial assets. To date, he has been partner, as principal investor, in more than 20 partnerships of assets valued at about CHF 200 million. The consolidated compounded yearly IRR of these investments to date is 35%. In 1997, Mr. Meyer worked with Goldman Sachs’ Whitehall Fund, prior to founding a real estate private equity co-investment vehicle in Switzerland, working exclusively with Morgan Stanley as client. In 1999, he joined Soros Real Estate Partners as a European acquisitions officer. Mr. Meyer holds a BS and MS in Thermo-Nuclear Physics from EPFL, Lausanne, and received his MBA from INSEAD, in Fontainebleau, France in December 1997.

Executive Director of WTF Properties in Zurich, a joint venture between PSP Swiss Property and Lehman Brothers, which in 2001 acquired 140 assets, and subsequently renovated and resold them for CHF 1.3 billion. Mr. Amr began his career with his family’s real estate development and management business, The Brodsky Organisation, which has been active in New York City for the past fifty years. There he managed property prior to becoming the lead asset manager of a $75 million portfolio of distressed Manhattan real estate, and later worked with P&O’s Bovis International in London bidding on governmental real estate privatisation (PFI) projects. He also worked with the leveraged buy-out fund, Edelman Investment Management, covering France and Switzerland before launching a real estate private equity co-investment vehicle in Switzerland with Morgan Stanley as the exclusive client.Mr. Amr holds a BA magna cum laude from Amherst College in Massachusetts, and received his MBA from INSEAD, in Fontainebleau, France.

Currently a legal clerk at the Geneva Prosecutor’s Office conducting legal research on penal matters. Prior to this, Mrs. Meyer worked as legal counsel at Hong-Kong and Shanghai Bank (Suisse) SA where she was responsible for the registration of Investment Funds in Europe (Italy, France, Germany and Belgium). Her responsibility was to cover all the legal aspects of the registration such as the analysis of the legal structure and investment policy of the funds in regards to the local regulation, the setting-up of necessary local structures and the negotiation of distribution and representation agreements. Mrs. Meyer is a member of the bar in Geneva, and graduated from the University Geneva’s Law School.

Lars Mohn was a senior advisor at Treveria until 2010, advising on various debt restructurings. Lars Mohn was a Managing Director at Lehman Brothers and Head of German Real Estate Finance Group until 2008, responsible for equity, mezzanine and senior financing opportunities in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers in 2000, Mr. Mohn started his real estate finance career in 1997 with Finova/Belgravia in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Mr. Mohn is a CFA charter holder and holds an Honors BA in Economics form the University of California, Irvine.

Laurent Selvi is a Managing Director of Selvi & Cie SA, a Swiss regulated Financial Institution offering Private Banking, Custody, Brokerage and Investment advisory services to an international and domestic private clientele.Mr. Selvi started his career as a research associate with a Private Bank in New-York before joining the family Firm in 1986. He is a member of the Swiss Bankers Association and Chairman of AUDAS, a Swiss think tank and user group of 25 Swiss Banks spread in all three linguistic regions and sharing the same IT platforms.Mr. Selvi has received his academic education in Paris and Geneva at the University of Geneva, Commercial Sciences Faculty as well as in New-York through the internal formal staff training program at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.

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