GRI Beds Europe 2024

Europe’s most exclusive dealmaking forum for investing across Beds real estate asset classes

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ABOUT THE EVENT
 

Our anchor event for members with AUM and capital at risk within BTR, Serviced Residential and Hospitality Assets, looking to foster further dealflow and match product to capital.

Unlike a conference, GRI Beds Europe is a special price discovery experience, with bespoke networking opportunities fostered through lucky encounters, pre-arranged matchmaking and open conversations driven by your peers.

In our unique discussion setting, participants come together to collaboratively create deal flow across asset classes, investment solutions, and countries - all whilst forging valuable connections.

Find your ideal business partners, cultivate valuable relationships, and continue these conversations through members-only Club Meetings held throughout the year and on our innovative online platform.

GRI Members’ Exclusive Networking Boosters
 
 
Pre Arranged 121 Meetings with attendees.
 
 
Roundtable discussions where everyone can participate.
 
 
Exclusively featuring top decision makers in open discussions.
Discussions
09:30-10:30

Beds, Beds & Beyond! 

Resilience, pricing, and long-term trends on point?

  • Get on Board! - Are living trends changing? Should investors go with the flow and diversify or stick to the status quo?
  • Location, location, operation! - Is success dependent on service, operational and prime urban locations these days?
  • Investor Appetite - Who's investing on what and where’s the value?
  • Bid & Ask Spread - Are current interest rates leaving the market risk-off or resilience knows no bounds?
11:00-12:00

Fundraising for BTR

How much equity and how much debt to satisfy the capital stack?


  • Equity and Debt - Traditional lenders ready to bridge the refinancing gap or equity taking center stage?
  • Sky High Construction Costs - Red flag or are we finally leveling up?
  • Upwards Mortgage Rates - Upswing for investment appetite into BTR?
  • Middle Market Funds - The best way to get ahead of competition and get the deals flying?
  • Refinancing - Funding gap opening doors to transactional opportunities or liquidity too messy?
  • Maturing Loans - How to mitigate and go around the burden of tighter lending standards? 
  • Demographics - Is the market still deep?


11:00-12:00

Hospitality Needs Living

Is pricing and demand changing the hotel sector makeup?

  • Pricing - Where are the premium boosts for asset performance?
  • Demand - Rapidly growing in primary and second-tier urban markets?
  • Transactional Volumes - Speeding up but any red flags?
  • Proven resilience or pricing pockets about to cause headaches?
  • Development Deals - Driven by demand alone?


13:00-14:00

Value Add & Opportunistic Deals

Elementary or enigmatic?

  • Pricing - Where to seek yield?
  • Fundraising - Time to deploy or hold fire?
  • Appetite - New allocation hotspots in which countries and regions? 
  • Risk Curve - Is there a cap or onwards and upwards?
13:00-14:00

Future of Hospitality Portfolios

Optimise Space, Decarbonise or Digitise?

  • Pipeline Deals - Develop, rebrand, wait, or buy? 
  • Decarbonise & Digitise - Protecting values and offering up premiums or too hard to measure success?
  • Repurposing - As distress and repricing hit commercial RE, is there a golden opportunity for hotels?
  • Place, Space & Tenants - Holy trinity of managing portfolios?
14:30-15:30

UK Resi Funding Gap

It’s only illogical!

  • Dry Powder - Is it the reason for the gap? How are dynamics changing between lenders, borrowers, and investors? 
  • Regional Growth Bubbles - Is London where resilience is strongest or is there value emerging elsewhere? 
  • Affordability - How can we balance out operational costs, inflation, and final consumer pricing? 
  • Inflation vs. Value - Can funding keep up or will we need to hold on for now? 
  • Supply & Demand - Does the housing crisis spell out opportunity or should we be wary of high costs? 
14:30-15:30

Student Housing

All hail the safety net or getting crowded?

  • Capital - Still institutional game or pricing right for wider capital pool? 
  • Location - Which countries in Europe are the “popular kids”?
  • Zero Carbon - Greenfield or Brownfield?
  • Affordability of Tenants - Is the changing demographic of students impacting supply/ demand  
  • Product Innovation - Competitive advantages to portfolios or too hard to measure?
16:00-17:00

Stars of the Next Cycle

MFR or SFR?

  • Products over Price - How do people want to live and where are the premiums?
  • Supply vs. Demand - SFR or MFR?
  • Space, Place & Rental Growth - Are there any key differences to fuel values?
  • Location, Location, Innovation? - Urban for premium prices or room to innovate products in line with suburban locations?
  • Capital Into SFR & MFR- Where should we place our bets?
  • Multifamily Rental - Hottest place to be or expensive cracks emerging?
16:00-17:00

People & Place

Collaboration, ESG & serviced-driven assets for the win?

  • Multi Use Portfolios - What do tenants want, what premiums can they give investors? 
  • Operational Challenges - Is collaboration the key to success? 
  • Places for People - Spaces people want to live, work, and play while maintaining profit, are the two aligned? 
  • Placeshifting - Should we put beds in our offices or is reconversion worth it? 
  • Brownfield vs Greenfield - Which one should we bet on? Best value, or is there value elsewhere? 
  • Understanding our Goals - Why is it important to get a good grasp of what we mean by social impact? 
  • Tick Box Effect - How to keep ESG rolling while keeping value up? 
  • Cash in or Cash out? - Is Beds the WHAT is driving it centre stage now?
Extra Activity
 
Cross Border Capital Opportunities
26th June, Sofitel London St James
Co-hosted by Apex Group, this inaugural collaboration between GRI Club Europe and GRI Club India promises invaluable investor partner networking and deal flow sourcing opportunities, as well as insights into the current flow of global capital allocation, how fund managers are overcoming challenges, and where to find opportunities to deploy dry powder.
Women Leading Real Estate
26th June
Exclusive women's private lunch & LP trends talk with guest.
 
Padel Experience
26th June
Fun and social padel game, exclusive for fellow GRI members and attendees of GRI APAC Capital and GRI Beds Europe.

You don't need to be familiar with this sport to participate in this experience. Our goal is to increase connections and have fun.
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Kirsty Stevens
Kirsty Stevens
Partner
GRI Institute
Kirsty Stevens
Kirsty Stevens
Kirsty Stevens
Partner
GRI Institute
0787150599
12 years experience within conference production in infrastructure, tax, finance and real estate. Previously working with RICS for four years helping drive the global CPD rollout. I have been with GRI Club for over 4 years, from Sales Director, UK Markets Director, Content Director and now as Global Head of Content with Sales Specialty within our Europe and USA markets. Ask me about our European events,asset class specialisms and connecting wtih investors globally. BA Hons in Philosophy from Kings College London, hobbies include Rugby, Theatre Production and Time Out Tastemaker.

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