AIFMD & Real Estate | Impact of AIFMD on real estate fund managers and on the transparency of the real estate investment market

The introduction of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) is a result of the financial crisis of 2008 and one of the first concrete measures of the European Commission in order to prevent a new crisis of this scale. After the fall of Lehman Brothers, often described as being “too big to fail” the decision was made to...

International Real Estate Investment Analysis and the use of asset specific criteria when investing in non-listed funds

This research paper aims to improve the profitability of investing in international real estate funds. This is done by statistically analyzing the underlying asset specific criteria (ASC) of international (US) real estate funds. These ASC are analyzed alongside macro (time) and meso (regional) and fund level aspects to decrease the risks of...

Data Centre Investments: Investment model & associated risk-return profile

This graduation thesis describes data centre real estate investments. Through the use of a constructed investment model the impact of specific building features are analyzed. This thesis describes the risk-return profile of the extraordinary real estate asset class of data centres, the impact of their specific building features and the...

Aligning Accommodation Strategies. Processes

Aligning accommodation strategies of multiple actors with diverging interests and goals in a political environment includes a difficult process. This thesis has tested whether the strategy-as-force model by Daamen (2010) from the urban area development practice, is a useful tool to improve these strategy making processes. The case studies are...

The Effects of Tourism Developments on the Built Environment in Small Island Developing States, Scenarios, Frameworks: The Case study of Curacao

Tourism is one of the main economical drivers for small island developing states. An adhoc approach towards tourist accommodation developments may have major, economic, social and environmental impacts. If in the future Curaçao only maximizes economic benefits and ignores environmental issues, it may experience the pitfall of unsustainable mass...

The Relation of Higher aggregated products to their Underlying assets

The European quarter, a future perspective. Spatial interventions from a stakeholder perspective in the European quarter in Brussels.

The arrival of the European Union in 1957 in Brussels has fundamentally changed the face of the city. The original early 20th century housing stock in the European quarter has almost totally been demolished and because of the absence of authoritative spatial plans or strategies, the district has been subjected to a continuous wave of speculative...