Aberdeen Standard Investments (Real Estate)

Real estate has a robust track record of enhancing portfolio diversification and delivering strong risk-adjusted returns for investors. At Aberdeen Standard Investments, we offer expertise across all principal real estate sectors – enabling our clients to target opportunities in their home market and globally. Our success in real estate is built on deep local research, global insight and an active approach to investing and development of our real estate assets. In this way, we seek to enable our clients to benefit from global real estate themes such as demographic change, urbanisation, technology plus environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors.

Global presence – local access

Managing £39bn* in real estate assets, we are one of the largest real estate managers globally committed to sustainable investing and innovative solutions for clients. With over 270* real estate professionals in 15* locations worldwide, our scale drives credibility and deal flow. In turn, we can offer clients a comprehensive end-to-end service throughout the market cycle, spanning the real estate risk spectrum and value chain.

Direct and indirect expertise

As well as managing direct real estate assets, we invest indirectly using listed and non-listed funds, multi-manager strategies and real estate debt. By also providing related services for tax, finance and development, we’re committed to giving clients a one-stop solution for their real estate needs.

^{*Source: Aberdeen Standard Investments, 30 June 2018}

Infrastructure’s mid-market: well-positioned for the post-pandemic recovery?

2021-06-30T09:54:00Z

In their quest for dependable, long-term income, investors have increased allocations to infrastructure assets. This has fuelled competition for large-sized deals. By contrast, the mid-market remains less crowded and, at the same time, the number of opportunities continues to grow.

Aberdeen accelerates ambitions in Asia-Pacific

2019-03-05T00:00:00

The real estate arm of Aberdeen Standard Investments has been clear since the merger of Aberdeen Asset Management and Standard Life Investments two years ago that it has ambitions to become a global direct real estate investment manager. It has a global multi-manager arm, but to date its direct capabilities are concentrated in Europe.