Attfund, Pretoria

Louis Norval, a founder member and currently CE of Attfund says: “The key elements of our success story are a well-defined business strategy, a formidable selection criteria and utilising the considerable expertise of Attfund’s executives and core officials in a continuous hands-on approach.”

“When we set out we wanted to focus on few – but high value –investments in the upper income market, because that’s where our expertise lay. That enables us to spend more time on each investment. Similarly, when it came to commercial office space we only want to invest in office parks, as that offers the flexibility to enable tenants to gradually increase or decrease their space as they expand or shrink. That in turn helps keep vacancy levels particularly low.”

Attfund’s current investments in South Africa consist of impressive retail holdings in upmarket shopping centres as well as four corporate office parks.