has established a new Japanese multi-family residential investment platform in partnership with Ivanho茅 Cambridge and an Asian sovereign investor.
The Allianz Real Estate Asia-Pacific Japan Multi-Family Fund I (AREAP JMF 1) had a first close of US$$500m (鈧�443m). A second close is expected by the end of the year taking the platform鈥檚 total equity commitment to US$750m.
Rushabh Desai, Asia-Pacific CEO of Allianz Real Estate told 91传媒在线 that depending on the pace of deployment, the investors would have the option to increase their equity commitments up to an overall hard cap of US$1bn.
Upon being fully invested, he said, the platform would have an investment capacity of approximately US$2-US$2.5bn in gross asset value.
AREAP JMF 1 will acquire primarily newly completed, well-located assets in Japan鈥檚 four major cities, Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, and Fukuoka, and lease-up and stabilise the assets for long-term hold.
鈥淲e have assets under due diligence now and expect to finalise a couple of transactions in the first quarter of next year,鈥� he said.
Allianz Real Estate itself already has a residential portfolio of approximately US$2bn in Japan, and has a strong team on the ground to source assets, he added.
This is the first Allianz Real Estate partnership with Ivanhoe Cambridge in Asia-Pacific, although the parent company had co-investments with the Canadian pension plan in Europe.
Desai said the new residential platform was part of the Allianz Real Estate strategy to bring in like-minded institutional investors to invest alongside Allianz and comes on the back of the 2020 launch of AREAP Core I, a US$2.3bn pan-Asia core investment platform where Allianz and NPS are 50-50 investors.
鈥淲e were encouraged by feedback from investors on the invest alongside Allianz strategy. The combined scale and expertise of like-minded institutional investors provide prioritised access to opportunities, said he told 91传媒在线.
George Agethen, senior vice president of Ivanho茅 Cambridge, described the venture as 鈥渁n excellent opportunity鈥� for the plan to launch its new Japan multi-family investment strategy.
鈥淭his investment will serve to further grow and diversify our portfolio in Japan and Asia-Pacific,鈥� he said.
The new multi-family partnership is Ivanho茅 Cambridge鈥檚 second Japan investment in 2021, following a last-mile logistics strategy announced earlier in the year.
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