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Investing in real estate with DWS

Real estate investing provides an opportunity to diversify returns and generate cash flow with relatively low correlation to traditional investments.

Our approach to real estate investing

We give investors access to the entire equity spectrum including core, value-added and opportunistic real estate and real estate debt.

With a platform and approach to real estate investing developed over 45 years, we are ranked among the world’s largest real estate managers in several industries.

Our mission is to deliver superior long-term, risk-adjusted returns, yield-generating opportunities, preservation of capital, and diversification. We seek competitive, sustainable returns through a disciplined investment process and take a rigorous life cycle approach to identify, implement and monitor investment themes and tactics. A number of areas from the platform provide input to the investment process.

Real estate business breakdown

Experienced team

45-year investment heritage

Global platform

More than 350 employees in 22 cities around the globe

Client satisfaction

More than 500 institutional clients

Overview of the DWS real estate strategies

Private real estate - EQUITY
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We employ an internal, integrated, interactive partnership in our approach to developing optimally-constructed Client Target portfolios. Strategic plans focus on the pragmatic repositioning of the portfolio through the use of incremental capital and any rotation of capital identified through hold/sell analyses. Our approach to active real estate management brings four key benefits to investors:
Research-based strategic planning and portfolio construction
Institutional risk management over the life of the investment
Access to transaction flow with a strong track record in asset allocation
Hands-on asset management adding value at the property level

Private real estate - DEBT
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We are able to invest in the full spectrum of debt strategies, including B-Notes, mezzanine loans and preferred equity, through our direct investment team and capital markets group, and by leveraging extensive external relationships with property owners, brokers and financial institutions to originate transactions.

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Our real estate team

W. Todd Henderson

Head of Real Estate for the Americas

Based in: New York

Georg Allendorf

Head of Real Estate Europe, Alternatives

Based in: Frankfurt

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