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# Unlocking the Value of Real Estate Debt as an Asset Class

February 22nd 2024

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Unlocking the Value of Real Estate Debt as an Asset Class

Our friends at LaSalle Investment Management published some great insights into the attractiveness of real estate debt as an asset class for the 20th anniversary of the Investment & Pensions Europe (IPE) Real Estate Conference 2024 in Madrid

Many of kennek's clients are smaller real estate lenders in bridging & development, who are capturing the value in this sector for themselves and their investors

Commercial Real Estate lending provides attractive and predictable risk-adjusted returns which stand up well against historical equity returns

A stable 7% annual yield will double your investment in 10 years. At 10% that happens after 7 years.

These returns are not unusual in alternative lending and they are attractive to many investors compared to the much more volatile returns of a broad index of stocks for example…

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