Last year, the real estate consultant Catella studied and analyzed the investment activities of around 80 family offices, i.e. companies that deal with the bank-independent management of large private assets. The evaluations are based both on discussions with experts and on numerous database analyses. The reason for the research is the steadily increasing investment activity of family offices worldwide, with an investment share of currently around 34 percent. Catella's experts expect family offices to invest up to 42 percent in the real estate sector over the next five years.
For this reason, Catella Research has taken the opportunity to take a closer look at the obscure buyer group of family offices. Above all, because they are the second strongest group of buyers in the real estate sector, directly after institutional investors. Both in Germany and internationally, however, relatively little is known about the second most important investor group in the real estate sector.
The results of the study show different investment activities between single-family offices and multi-family offices. While single-family offices have a high proportion of real estate, multi-family offices are more interested in alternative investments. Catella Research's analysis shows that around 46 percent of respondents invest in the Core + risk category. Family offices have the greatest investment interest in office real estate, closely followed by residential real estate. Long-term asset accumulation and diversification are at the heart of the investment activities of high net worth private investors.
Source: Catella
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