Anvil

What we do

Anvil acquires, finances and manages real estate assets in the Nordics, often in partnership with institutional investors. Our founders have a long track record investing in the region, and understand the challenges and opportunities that are unique to each of the Nordic markets. While wealthy, educated and growing, the Nordic countries are also insular, opaque and difficult to navigate. Successful investing requires intensive due diligence, a deep understanding of local market dynamics, aggressive asset management and carefully-considered exit alternatives.

Access

Whether sourcing investment opportunities, leasing space or selling properties, critical information in the Nordics is often only available through private market contacts. Anvil benefits from longstanding relationships across the spectrum of owners, tenants, lenders, brokers, lawyers and other professionals. As an active property owner/investor, Anvil is able to leverage its market position to gain insight and access to proprietary opportunities.

Analytics

We apply rigorous analytical focus to all of our activities. Given the region’s information asymmetry, it’s critical to intensively and continuously source and analyze relevant data in order to formulate strategies that enhance value and mitigate risks. While experience and intuition help form our investment theses, data drives our decisions.

Accountability

Anvil’s partners expect consistently high performance, and we in turn expect it of our colleagues and service providers. We believe successful relationships are based upon transparency, alignment of interests and agreed-upon, measurable results. We treat our clients’ capital the same as our own, and make sure every kroner invested provides a sufficient risk-adjusted return.

We provide

Creative capital, longstanding relationships and unique market insights

Anvil provides comprehensive asset management services for institutional investors. We are relentlessly focused on value creation during the time between acquisition and exit. Our approach is unique in the Nordic region, where asset management is an evolving industry and generally under-appreciated. We believe value is created by using analysis, technology and effort to actively source and manage tenants, focus on costs/capital investments and provide detailed, insightful reporting that allows investors to make informed strategic decisions.
Anvil invests in all major property types and is particularly attracted to large or complex transactions that require creative solutions. We invest across the capital spectrum (equity and debt, public and private, performing and non-performing) and are capable of efficiently providing capital and expertise to design and deliver investments that meet sellers’ specific requirements.
Anvil provides capital to property owners, investors and developers seeking to obtain additional financing beyond traditional senior bank loans. Our principals have a 20-year track record of sourcing and structuring mezzanine property investments in Europe and the U.S. We endeavor to be flexible in terms of structure, security and repayment terms.
Anvil selectively provides corporate advice to: (i) real estate investors seeking to gain access to the Nordic real estate markets and (ii) local owner/operators seeking international capital partners. Anvil is uniquely positioned to connect international capital with local expertise, and more importantly, to manage cultural challenges and ensure alignment that allows long-term partnerships to succeed.