Gordon Black

Heitman UK is an active manager which performs in-house research to support their three business units and is an integral part of the investment process. Their approach combines top-down analysis, which generates country or regional weights and sector or property types picks with bottom-up research on individual assets, submarkets and markets, which helps to form investment decisionsFor private real estate equity the firm employs a collaborative, multi-disciplined approach. They have experience across all traditional property types (e.g., office, industrial, apartment and retail), as well as specialty property types such as self-storage, senior housing, medical office and student housing. They invest directly in property in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, making outright acquisitions, or acquiring interests in property by structuring joint ventures with private and public operating companies or private placements in real estate operating companies. They offer both open- and closed-end commingled fund opportunities in North America and Europe. Heitman UK invests in public real estate securities based upon in-depth, fundamental and proprietary research. They aim to produce risk-adjusted investment returns in excess of market benchmarks, by identifying and capturing multiple forms of alpha, primarily that which is produced by companies able to generate long-term and consistent returns on their invested capital in excess of their long-term cost of capital. The process adapts well-established securities investment tools to the specific and unique characteristics of the global real estate securities market. For real estate debt, the firm offers clients several alternative strategies for investing in debt secured by real estate and can construct portfolios for separate account and commingled fund investors.

Heitman Capital Management LLC invests in residential, office, industrial and retail properties as well as in specialty sectors such as medical office and self-storage facilities located in the US.

Heitman International, a subsidiary of Heitman LLC, is a British company. The firm provides real estate services.