Funds -- Active Funds -- Saffron RE-I
| Corpus |
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US$ 103.5 mn |
| Vintage |
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2008 |
| Focus |
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Real Estate |
| Status |
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Investing |
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| Amount Invested * |
: |
US$ 31.5 mn |
| Number of Investments * |
: |
2 |
| No. of Divestments |
: |
- |
| Gross Return |
: |
- |
|
|
| * Includes commitments
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The Fund had raised USD 103.5 million during difficult capital raising conditions during 2008. The Fund will primarily invest in high-growth real estate assets across India. The Fund seeks to provide its investors with a return in excess of 20% IRR and will invest primarily in office, residential, retail, hospitality and mixed-use properties that will attract quality customers/ end users.
The fund has made 2 investments, The first one being a residential development in the city of Hyderabad in an secondary purchase from a large multinational fund facing distress during the financial crisis at a significant discount to the original investment value. The second investment is made in the Central Mumbai Suburb of Mumbai in a residential project with one of the leading developers in the city.
The Fund has high quality, long term institutional investors with a understanding of real estate as an asset class. The investors are based out of Continental Europe and Scandinavian countries.