VGP has announced the establishment of a new 50:50 Joint Venture named “Saga” with Areim, an independent fund manager and property owner headquartered in Stockholm. The Saga Joint Venture will focus exclusively on key European markets, including France, Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary.
This Joint Venture targets €1.5 billion of gross asset value with a loan-to-value ratio of approximately 35%. It foresees a five-year investment period and has a total term of ten years, with several extension options.
The Saga Joint Venture will focus exclusively on key European markets, including France, Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary. The financing of Areim’s share in the Joint Venture comes from a recently closed fund, Areim Pan-European Logistic Fund, which was closed with €500 million in committed capital, raised from international institutional capital.
The joint venture partners have earmarked a target portfolio aligning with the agreed timing of asset completions and investment criteria, including a substantial seed portfolio scheduled for closure in the first quarter of 2024. Saga will operate in harmony with VGP’s operational joint ventures, maintaining a similar role for the Group as the asset, property, and development manager for an initial term of ten years.
The Joint Venture marks, following the recent Deka announcement, another important milestone in the broadening of VGP’s cash recycling model, bringing the total effective transactions and new Joint Venture commitments up to €3 billion gross asset value this year only.
