For a decade, portfolio transactions were considered the most efficient way to liquidate large German residential portfolios. Over that period, Max Seil proved the opposite – building the only German advisory platform capable of executing this alternative on an institutional scale, at institutional speed and with institutional governance standards. Real estate funds, private equity firms and investment banks have long since stopped looking the other way.
During the zero-interest-rate years, the script wrote itself. Large residential portfolios were put together, placed in data rooms and funnelled through global bidding processes by international brokerage consortia – ultimately ending up in vehicles with catchy names and headquarters in Luxembourg or Jersey. Size signaled security. Volume meant prestige. Today, this game barely works anymore. Financing is more expensive, equity capital has become way more cautious, and exit windows have narrowed. What was once celebrated as a platform deal is suddenly cumbersome. It is precisely in this market phase that one name is cropping up more and more: Maximilian Seil.
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