The Residential Fund has a well-defined growth strategy, as we believe the residential sector continues to offer good long-term investment opportunities, especially for investors with a liability hedge strategy.

A total of 15,329 properties across the Netherlands

The Fund realised a total return of 20.5% in 2016 (2015: 12.5%), consisting of 3.4% income return (2015: 3.8%) and 17.1% in capital growth (2015: 8.6%).

The recovery seen in the residential real estate market seen in the previous two years continued in 2016, as house prices rose throughout the year, especially in the Randstad, and edged above pre-crisis levels.

Bouwinvest aims to provide a solid return on real estate investments for institutional investors and their beneficiaries and to do this in a responsible manner.

Cooperation and engagement with our tenants and other stakeholders is an essential part of our sustainability strategy.

The focus of the Residential Fund’s sustainability strategy is on reducing the environmental impact of its properties while enhancing comfort in cooperation with its tenants and other stakeholders, For example, our standard programme of requirements

Benchmarking based on the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) gives the Residential Fund greater insight into the opportunities to improve its sustainability performance at fund level.

Bouwinvest Dutch Institutional Residential Fund N.V. (the Residential Fund) was established in 2010.

The Residential Fund is structured as an investment company with variable capital, as defined in article 2:76a of the Dutch Civil Code, with its corporate seat in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.