Corona update 18-03-2020

Mobile business operations at Primevest Capital Partners

In view of the current situation due to the corona epidemic, Primevest Capital Partners is working in parts in mobile business operations until further notice. All of our employees have cell phones and a laptop, and our IT applications can be accessed remotely.

We ask for your understanding that until further notice we are restricting visitors to our buildings and are not holding meetings at all. Like during our usual business operations, our employees are always available for you using the known contact details. As soon as this situation changes, we will inform you accordingly.

Utrecht / Berlin, March 18, 2020 at 6 p.m.

Primevest Capital Partners acquires third car park in Dublin

On 10 of July Primevest Capital Partners has acquired the Christchurch car park on Werburgh Street in Dublin for its 4th institutional fund, as a further expansion of its investment portfolio.

Situated on the edge of the Irish capital’s main retail area, the newly-acquired location is surrounded by a variety of offices, hotels and theatres. Thanks to these different anchors, the car park benefits from a wide range of customers throughout the day. The above-ground multi-storey building offers 213 parking spaces and is operated by Q-Park.

Floris Haentjens, Acquisition Manager Parking: “This kind of car park is exactly what we are looking for, and we are open to making new investments throughout most of Europe. This is our 3rd acquisition in Dublin – and already the 48th car park in our port-folio. Its acquisition further strengthens our high quality, sustainable portfolio of car park investments across Europe, bringing our investment volume in the car parks segment to a total of over €900 million”.

Bas Magielse, Fund Manager, adds: “Dublin is an attractive city to invest in. The Christchurch car park has a very favourable location and benefits from a tenant with a good covenant. As an asset, it is expected to provide our investors in this segment a highly stable and relatively attractive cash return.”

For further information, feel free to contact:
Lisette van der Ham
Head of Marketing & Corporate Communications
Lisette.vanderham@primevestcp.com
www.primevestcp.com

T-Mobile, Primevest Capital Partners and VolkerWessels Telecom start city-wide its fiber rollout in The Hague

VolkerWessels Telecom have signed a cooperation agreement with the municipality of The Hague concerning the rollout of Fiber to the Home networks.

A consortium of T-Mobile, Primevest Capital Partners and VolkerWessels Telecom is formed to roll out an open-access FTTH network on which also 5G and Smart City applications in urban areas can be deployed. The consortium will start in June with the rollout of 33.000 home and business addresses in Segbroek, a district within the city of The Hague. With this cooperation, T-Mobile delivers on its promise to roll out fiber networks. The cooperation combines the unique strengths of each partner unlocking favorable economics, rapid, low impact and customer focused network rollout.

Richard de Mos, alderman for Economic Affairs, Sport and Public Space: “The municipality of The Hague is extremely happy with this fruitful cooperation. The consortium will bring our city a state of the art digital infrastructure that will benefit our citizens as well as our businesses. The city-wide rollout of Fiber-to-the-home will realize good digital connectivity for all the citizens in The Hague. The new fiber network is distinctive from other initiatives, as it is ready for all thinkable future applications and will offer open access to third parties. We expect this to boost innovation in telecommunications services in our city.”

Promise to The Hague
In January of this year, T-Mobile Netherlands merged with Tele2 Netherlands. A merger that was cleared by the European Commission without remedies. Søren Abildgaard, CEO: “With this merger, we have created the strongest possible challenger in the duopolistic Dutch telecommunications market. During the approval process by the European Commission, we made it very clear that this merger will strongly benefit Dutch consumers. To prove this we made them five hard promises. With the new consortium, we deliver on our promise to roll out fiber networks. Starting right here in The Hague, where our headquarters are located. The partnership with Primevest and VolkerWessels Telecom allows consumers to benefit from high quality, high speed fiber networks and offering ultrafast Internet and a rich TV content portfolio at very attractive prices.”

Benefits for all stakeholders
Primevest Communication Infrastructure Fund invests in passive communication network assets. They provide long term access to telecom providers that support an open access investment strategy. Bas van Dongen, Partner at Primevest: “We believe this leads to a higher utilization rate of the network, which is beneficial to all stakeholders. End users benefit from attractive pricing, telecom providers benefit from attractive network access pricing and the investors benefit ultimately from the higher utilization rate.. By future-proof and innovative rollout approach, construction works can be kept to a minimum. With T-Mobile, we have a strong partner in business supporting our investment philosophy.”

Enabling connectivity
Wido van de Mast, CEO of VolkerWessels Telecom: “We are very excited to be working together with T-Mobile, Primevest Capital Partners and the municipality of The Hague on deploying a state-of-the-art FttH network in The Hague. This cooperation aligns with our ultimate goal of enabling total connectivity and contributing to people’s quality of life. VolkerWessels Telecom acts within the consortium as a full turnkey contractor. In this role, we combine years of experience in the telecom market with innovative solutions and technical professionals.”

About Primevest Capital Partners
Primevest Capital Partners is a pan-European investment boutique that specializes in innovative real estate and property investments. Due to the extensive industry knowledge with a focus on specialized investment sectors such as parking, telecommunications and affordable, contemporary living, Primevest Capital Partners has developed into a leading provider in these areas. Our top priority is to achieve attractive risk-adjusted returns for our customers. In doing so, we pay attention to sustainable income and value creation. Primevest Capital Partners currently manages assets of 1.6 billion euros, spread across eight sector-specific funds and two individual institutional mandates. Primevest Capital Partners currently has 40 employees at its locations in Utrecht and Berlin.

For more information, please contact:
Lisette van der Ham
Head of Marketing & Corporate Communications
lisette.vanderham@primevestcp.com
www.primevestcp.com

Press release – Primevest CP acquires Glasgow car park

Primevest Capital Partners announces it has made its first investment for its 4th institutional parking fund in Glasgow, Scotland’s largest city and third in the UK. Mitchell Street car park is located in the city centre of Glasgow, close to the prime retail area and central station.

Buchanan Street, UK’s 2nd busiest retail street, after Oxford Street in London, is only yards away.The multi-storey car park of 220 parking spaces is operated by NCP, the largest car park operator in the UK which was recently taken over by a Japanese consortium of Development Bank of Japan and Park24. Bart Pierik, Managing Partner Primvest Capital Partners comments: “This is the first acquisition for our European Real Estate Parking Fund IV and the 47th car park in our portfolio. This car park will further strengthen our high-quality and sustainable portfolio of car park investments across Europe”.

Bas Magielse, Fund Manager Parking Primevest Capital Partners adds: “Mitchell Street is very well located and an asset which is expected to provide a very stable and relatively attractive cash return for our investors.”

The fourth institutional Parking Fund is structured as a German Immobilien-Spezialfonds serviced by HANSAINVEST Hanseatische Investment-GmbH (KVG) and will invest in a portfolio of car parks throughout Europe.

Primevest Capital Partners is the leading specialist for car park investments in Europe, and has been launching funds in this segment for over ten years. Including BEREPF IV, the investment manager currently manages a total of six funds with 47 car park properties. Assets under management in the car park segment represent a value of around EUR 900 million. The properties are located at very strong locations in several European countries.

Primevest CP successfully completes acquisition of a pan-European car park portfolio

Primevest Capital Parners has successfully completed the acquisition of a European car park portfolio for its third institutional car park fund, a German open-ended special property fund. Seller was Bouwfonds European Real Estate Parking Fund I (‘BEREPF I’).

On completion, Primevest CP has also refinanced the car park portfolio. The car parks in Germany, the Netherlands and France have been refinanced through a financing facility provided by BerlinHyp AG and Deutsche Postbank AG as Lenders, whilst the car parks in the United Kingdom and Spain have been refinanced through a financing facility provided by Deutsche Postbank AG.

Following completion, Primevest CP has successfully expanded the portfolio and divested its BEREPF I portfolio. The portfolio is now invested in 21 car parks in total, located in major cities in seven European countries. The portfolio is now fully invested with an investment volume of almost EUR 400 million. The seller, BEREPF I, was the first investment fund exclusively dedicated to investments in car park real estate car park that Bouwfonds IM launched in 2005 and reached fund maturity. After a careful and strict compliance process, in order to manage potential conflicts of interest and to ensure a transparent, competitive and fair sale, the properties of BEREPF l have been sold to Primevest CP.

In this multi-jurisdiction transaction both seller and buyer obtained support from renowned advisors. The seller was amongst others supported by Cushman & Wakefield (broker), CMS (multi-jurisdiction legal and tax support), Bureau Veritas Asset Management (technical support). The buyer was supported amongst others by Unifore DMC Real Estate Finance (financing arranger), Deloitte (tax), DLA (legal transaction support) , whilst Latham & Watkins (Germany , United Kingdom & Spain), and NautaDutilh (Netherlands and Luxembourg) were responsible for legal advice on the financing documentation and legal restructuring. Technical advice came from Apleona/GVA. Dentons has advised the banks on the finance documentation in all jurisdictions.

IntReal International Real Estate Kapitalverwaltungsgesellschaft mbH, Hamburg, Germany, is acting as the service asset management company for the fund, performing administration of the open ended special AIF.