Since then, Bluerock has received shareholder approval to convert the vehicle from an interval fund to a listed closed-end fund, and renamed it the Bluerock Private Real Estate Fund, or BPRE.<\/p>\n
The company\u2019s marketing docs<\/a> talk a lot about how this is an \u201copportune time\u201d for a \u201ctransformative step\u201d that will give it \u201cinvestment freedom\u201d to take advantage of \u201can extremely attractive time to deploy capital\u201d, but also nods to the more concrete reason for the conversion:<\/p>\n Importantly, listing the Fund, and thereby providing for liquidity via the secondary market rather than through direct redemptions of shares, is intended to help prevent the Fund itself from becoming a \u201cforced seller\u201d of its underlying semi-liquid real estate-related assets. This preserves the integrity of the underlying investment strategy for all shareholders, providing the portfolio management team with greater flexibility and fewer cash constraints, all which should generally be accretive to performance, with the goal of maximizing shareholder value.<\/p>\n For obvious reasons, there\u2019s been a lot of interest in how BPRE might trade when it finally makes its stock market debut. As Accredited Investor Insights\u2019 Leyla Kunimoto wrote in her Substack<\/a> last week: \u201cOnce the fund starts trading, we\u2019ll all find out what the public market thinks about the NAV marks on the private assets sitting inside this vehicle.\u201d<\/p>\n Today, we have the result, with BPRE finally making its debut on the New York Stock Exchange. Trading is still live, but at pixel time BPRE\u2019s shares are trading at $15.12. That\u2019s up from the $14 opening, but compares to the investment fund\u2019s net asset value yesterday of\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009$24.36.<\/p>\n That\u2019s a 38 per cent markdown in one day. According to Alphaville\u2019s rudimentary napkin math, this has now almost wiped out the last of the cumulative returns<\/a> that the fund made since its inception. <\/p>\n In statement Bluerock\u2019s CEO Ramin Kamfar said that the whole \u2018private market marks are unrealistic\u2019 refrain was popular but inaccurate in this case. <\/p>\n I think the discount you are observing is temporary and event-driven as shares exchange hands from pent-up sellers to willing buyers.\u00a0BPRE\u2019s early discount to NAV tracks the same experience that you can see if you research\u00a0other comparable funds that have listed \u2013 i.e. that they generally open trading at a discount, but that the discount closes to NAV over a reasonable period of time as the pricing more closely converges with the value of the fund\u2019s underlying assets.\u00a0 <\/p>\n That dynamic is because selling demand immediately presents itself upon listing, but buying demand generally plays out over time as sophisticated investors wait out peak selling to try to purchase at the most attractive market bottom price.\u00a0 And then as the fund\u2019s shares trade out of pent-up sellers\u2019 hands to willing buyers, the fund discount closes over time.<\/p>\n So what are BPRE\u2019s assets? Well, it has actually invested in what looks mostly like 35 underlying real estate funds managed by the likes of Prologis, CBRE, Ares. Carlyle, and Brookfield. The single biggest exposure \u2014 at 15.8 per cent of gross assets \u2014 is to IQHQ, a private Californian real estate investment trust that specialises in life sciences real estate. <\/p>\n BPRE says the underlying assets constitute well over 5,000 properties, of which a shade over 40 per cent in industrial sites, 20 per cent in residential, 19 per cent in speciality real estate, and 17 per cent in debt, with the balance in office and retail. But really, this is a fund-of-funds in drag. In retrospect, an expensive private real estate interval fund-of-funds was very ZIRPy. <\/p>\n What is the wider readthrough here? Well, the massive immediate public market discount applied to the Bluerock Private Real Estate Fund\u2019s NAV is at least partly stoked by the fact that there had been a lot of unmet investor withdrawal requests. Investors now have liquidity, albeit at a price they probably don\u2019t like. <\/p>\n Nor does it necessarily mean that Bluerock\u2019s marks are massively off-base. As Kamfar points out, Investment trusts, REITs, closed-end funds and other structures like them routinely trade at a discount to their NAV. We\u2019ll have to wait and see where the shares settle once the initial investor exodus is over. Kamfar told us that he hoped the discount would close over the next \u201cseveral quarters as willing buyers take over from willing sellers\u201d.<\/p>\n In its investor FAQ<\/a>, Bluerock promised that it will do everything it can to support its share performance, up to and including scrapping the whole darn conversion (zoomable version<\/a>).<\/p>\n However, a 38 per cent markdown on the first day of trading\u2009.\u2009.\u2009. well, it isn\u2019t great, is it? 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