Verifort Capital is strengthening its position as an asset manager for commercial real estate with its range of comprehensive real estate services. The company provides portfolio holders, institutional and semi-professional investors with its individual expertise in the areas of asset management, property management, construction management and transactions as a service. Its range of mutual funds complements this strategy and makes Verifort Capital’s value-add expertise accessible to private investors.
“We are the asset manager for value add in commercial real estate,” says Frank M. Huber, CEO of Verifort Capital. The company has been demonstrating its expertise in the sustainable development of commercial real estate in B and C cities for many years. Verifort Capital’s teams can handle all steps in-house – from the inspection and acquisition process through sustainable modernization and management to tenant management and the final sale of such properties.
Verifort Capital is already using this expertise with tailored asset management services for third parties, for example for a real estate portfolio of the former Verianos Group or the KOROS office complex in Mannheim. “Against the backdrop of increasing sustainability requirements and stricter ESG regulations in real estate management, we see a great need for professional real estate services in the market,” says Huber. Verifort Capital’s offering is therefore aimed specifically at institutional and semi-professional investors as well as other portfolio holders and asset managers who are unable or unwilling to implement value-add and ESG measures with their own capacities.
To this end, Verifort Capital provides services tailored to the individual needs of its clients. This can range from selective, technical support in property management or transaction support for purchases and sales through to comprehensive asset management of real estate with the aim of achieving a sustainable increase in value. Thanks to its broad network, Verifort Capital can also initiate and manage club deals for exclusive real estate investments for institutional and semi-professional players.
Holistic asset management for long-term value-add success
“The finely tuned interaction between asset management, property management, construction management and transactions covers the entire life cycle of properties,” says Huber. “We ensure that all areas interact efficiently in order to increase the value of the properties and secure long-term returns.”
The expansion of the range of services is perfectly complemented by the company’s own range of funds: Verifort Capital also enables private investors to benefit from the company’s comprehensive value-add expertise via its public funds such as the “VC Value Add Plus” AIF. “We will of course continue to manage our funds and the corresponding existing properties in our portfolio professionally as usual,” says Huber. “The fund business is and will remain a core component of our company, with which we will continue to grow in the future. Our expertise in existing properties is therefore open to everyone: Institutional and semi-professional investors can use it as a service for their properties, while private investors can participate via our funds.” In order to rule out potential conflicts between its own portfolio and the mandates in the transactions segment, Verifort Capital concentrates in this service segment on mandates with a significantly larger volume than the purchases for the fund portfolios.