Lend Lease Launches New European Property Fund

LONDON-Lend Lease is looking to repeat the success of its four Value Enhanced funds in the USA–which between them raised over $1.29 billion over seven years–with the launch of a €300 million ($265 million) European Value Enhanced Fund.

The new fund will only invest within the Eurozone, which rules out investment in UK property. Initially it will target the office and retail sectors in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Austria, Portugal and Finland.

Charles Foster Taylor, Chief Executive of Lend Lease Real Estate Investments said the new product was designed to sit between Lend Lease’s institutional-grade limited partnerships, which invest in its major shopping malls, and the more opportunistic approach of its Lend Lease Global Properties SICAF.

In the USA, capital raising is currently under way for a fifth Value Enhanced Fund, with $250 million already committed.