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About Cerno Real Estate Investors
By leveraging Cerno’s integrated real estate platform, we deliver quality investment products that provide a transparent view of risk, preserve investment capital and deliver consistent risk adjusted returns
Cerno Real Estate Investors has over $150 million in funds under management in a number of different closed-ended real estate investment funds.
Our investment strategy is aimed at providing investment solutions for institutional and wholesale investors in retail, commercial and industrial assets.
We create real estate investment vehicles, in partnership with investors, which provide a strong alignment of interest through co-investment based on simple and transparent structures aimed at meeting investors’ risk-return profile.
We know property. We provide a hands-on approach in dealing with our investments, closely monitoring the finer details to identify opportunities to extract the maximum value from these assets.
Integrated Real Estate Investment Platform
Cerno’s integrated investment platform provides for active management of real estate investment assets. The integration of Cerno Group’s entities provides us with a competitive edge in delivering quality investment products. This integrated investment platform allows each entity to focus on their speciality, whilst still enabling the entities to draw on one another for additional expertise in the provision of services to third party clients. This ensures the transfer of skills and valuable industry knowledge across the Group, and enables our clients to benefit from the complete spectrum of expertise we offer across a range of property services.
Investment Strategy
Our investment strategy is focused on:
- Targeting opportunities where we can enhance the value of the asset. We achieve this through re-positioning, judicious capital expenditure, active hands on management and leasing activity.
- Targeting assets that are too small or out of favour with larger institutional investors but large enough to be beyond the reach of private investors.
- Targeting opportunities that provide protection from inflation through long-term, stable growth cash flows and good prospects for capital growth.
WHAT WE CAN OFFER
- Our property financing team has trusted relationships with bankers and other providers of capital, supporting the Cerno Group’s funding strategies in ensuring the efficient allocation of capital (equity) and financial leverage (debt).
- We are able to draw on the project delivery skills within the entire Cerno Group to de-risk assets where asset management plans call for the repositioning of assets.
- Our professional property services team are hands-on managers, controlling property outgoings, maintaining tenant relations and actively developing and delivering leasing strategies.
- We are adept at aligning interests through co-investment and performance-based rewards.
- Creating joint venture partnerships with like-minded investors to identify, secure and capitalise on investment opportunities.
OUR APPROACH
Real estate is an asset class subject to cycles depending on underlying supply and demand fundamentals in the financial, property and occupier markets. The pricing of real estate is inefficient which provides us with the opportunity to identify and deliver value-enhancing investments.
Each investment is considered from a macro-perspective (i.e. economic conditions, interest rates, inflation, and capital flows) and a micro-perspective (i.e. local demand and supply drivers, quality of the property, and building condition and specifications). This approach ensures that each investment has a documented asset management plan and investment strategy (reviewed annually) dealing with:
- The timing of the acquisition – entry price
- Appropriate funding strategies involving the efficient allocation of capital (equity) and financial leverage (debt)
- A robust asset management strategy identifying strengths, opportunities to add value, threats and weaknesses
- The identification of risks and mitigation strategies for these risks
- Investment horizon and exit strategies – exit price