Art-Invest Real Estate, KanAm Grund Group and KGAL strengthen the network
The Educational Real Estate Initiative continues to gain momentum: With Art-Invest Real Estate, the KanAm Grund Group and KGAL, the network coordinated by bulwiengesa welcomes three more members. This means that eleven companies are now involved in the initiative.
With the three new additions, the initiative is expanding its expertise, especially in the areas of educational development, institutional asset management and real assets. Together, the eleven member companies represent the key perspectives along the value chain of educational real estate – from financing and planning to development and legal structuring to long-term portfolio holding. The founding members include Deutsche Kreditbank AG, Drees & Sommer, GSK Stockmann, HIH Projektentwicklung, Hemsö, LHI Group, LBBW Immobilien and mondial KVG.
The positive development underlines the growing interest in educational real estate as part of the social infrastructure. At the same time, it shows the need for a structured exchange between the public sector, the real estate industry and other stakeholders.
“The great response to the initiative shows that the need for exchange, transparency and reliable information in the field of educational real estate is high. Together with our members, we are working to systematically process this knowledge and provide orientation for municipalities, investors and other market players. This is exactly what we see as the mission of the initiative,” says Sven Carstensen, Managing Director of bulwiengesa.
The initiative’s substantive work is already in full swing. Together with the member companies, the first technical publication is currently being produced. The focus is on questions relating to the development and financing of educational real estate as well as the establishment of a reliable database for municipalities and market participants.
With its studies, network meetings and continuous exchange, the initiative pursues the goal of bringing educational real estate more into the focus of the real estate market and, together with the public sector, creating more transparency, reliable data and orientation for future decisions.
The initiative is open to other market participants. Public sector institutions are expressly invited to contribute their experiences and perspectives to the joint exchange and to actively shape the further development of the segment. In addition to the continuous exchange of information between members, the initiative is working on studies and other specialist formats in order to promote dialogue around educational real estate in the long term.
