OP-Palvelukiinteistöt

OP-Public Services Real Estate Fund

Steady return from Finnish public services real estate

We will suspend orders for real estate funds

On 31 December 2024, the Board of Directors of OP Fund Management Company Ltd decided to temporarily suspend fund unit redemptions and subscriptions for OP-Public Services Real Estate special common fund.  

The suspension is temporary, and we are closely monitoring the market situation. We aim to reopen the funds for subscriptions and redemptions as soon as the real estate market stabilises.  
For additional information on the temporary suspension of the fund, read the news: We will temporarily suspend subscriptions and redemptions for real estate funds 

The fund provides high-quality real estate investments with good rental yield 

Despite the temporary suspension of subscriptions and redemptions for the fund, professional portfolio management for the fund will continue in a normal way. 
OP-Public Services Real Estate special common fund was founded at the end of 2017. It includes properties that accommodate approximately 2,800 customers and a total of 287 privately financed rented flats. 
The properties are located in university cities and growth centres or in their commuter areas. Approximately half of the properties are located in the Helsinki region. Most of the fund's 55 properties were built or renovated in 2018 or later, in other words, the fund provides a high-quality real estate portfolio. 
The average lease period of the fund's care and business premises is approximately 10 years. The occupancy rate of business premises is almost 100% and that of apartments around 97–98%, clearly exceeding the market average. The occupancy rate describes the percentage of the leasable area currently rented and occupied, in relation to the total leasable area. The payment capacity of tenants in the properties has also remained good.
Overall, the rental cash flows of the fund have remained stable and suffice well for covering the properties' management, maintenance and repair costs and the funds' interest expenses. In other words, the operational functionality of the fund properties is excellent.
 

The fund annually pays unitholders a dividend

The real estate fund annually distributes at least 75% of its realised proceeds to its unitholders. The remaining share will remain in the fund to increase the funds value. Annual dividend has been paid as follows: €0.43 (2019), €1.66 (2020), €2,03 (2021), €3.14 (2022), € 2.67 e (2023), € 3.86 (2024)

 

On 31 December 2024, the Board of Directors of OP Fund Management Company Ltd decided to temporarily suspend fund unit redemptions and subscriptions for OP-Public Services Real Estate and OP-Rental Yield special common funds.

Special common funds OP-Forest Owner:

You can make buy and sell orders anytime, but buy orders will be executed four times a year and sell orders twice a year.

Buying

When you place a buy order, it will be executed on the last day of the same quarter at that day’s value. Buy orders will be executed on 31 March, 30 June, 30 September and 31 December.

Example: if you place a buy order by 16.00 on 31 March, it will be executed on 31 March.

Buy order Execution date
1 January–31 March 31 March
1 April–30 June 30 June
1 July–30 September 30 September
1 October–31 December 31 December

Selling

When you place a sell order, it will be executed on the last day of the next six-month period at that day’s value. Sell orders will be executed on 30 June and 31 December.

Example: if you place a sell order by 16.00 on 30 June, it will be executed on 31 December.

If the order execution date is not a weekday, the order will be executed on the previous weekday. After this, the fund is valued. Valuation generally takes 20 days, after which you can view your executed buy and sell transactions in your portfolio. Valuation may take longer if the fund’s assets need to be realised to pay for redemptions.

Sell order Execution date
1 January–30 June 31 December
1 July–31 December 30 June
Subscription fee Annual management fee Redemption fee
 1,5 % 1,9 % 1 %

If the investment is held under 4 years, at the moment of redemption we will charge a 3% fee and, for investments held under 2 years, a 5% fee. Subscription and redemption fees are refunded to the fund. The fund's value is calculated four times a year and the fund units generate OP bonuses for those private customers who are also our owner-customers.

Read the portfolio manager's review on the fund's Finnish pages.

OP-Public Services Real Estate Fund is a non-UCITS fund which invests its assets in the service infrastructure of social education, physical culture and sports, social welfare, and health care services, comprising care services, child day care, education, multipurpose arenas, as well as service and hotel living. The fund also acts as builder of the above-mentioned service infrastructure. The fund mainly invests directly in commercial property and securities entitling to such property, in shares in limited partnerships engaged in property investment and in shares in housing cooperatives and real estate companies.

The fund acts as owner and lessor of the properties and principally does not take part in providing care services. Lessees are both private and public providers. The fund invests its assets in targets in areas for which long-term demand is expected.

The fund employs financial leverage, as is customary in property investment. In the base case, leverage is 30 per cent on top of the net value and it can no more than 50 per cent in a normal situation.

All costs arising from maintaining, owning and trading buildings and expert services used in property trading, which may have a substantial effect on the Fund’s return, will be paid using the Fund’s assets.

OP-Public Services Real Estate Fund is a non-UCITS fund which invests its assets in the service infrastructure of social education, physical culture and sports, social welfare, and health care services, comprising care services, child daycare, education, multipurpose arenas, and service and hotel living. The Fund also acts as builder of the above-mentioned service infrastructure. The Fund promotes environmental and social characteristics and, to ensure it, uses environmental, social and governance (ESG) analysis and excludes certain investments. The Fund mainly invests directly in commercial property and securities entitling to such property, in shares in limited partnerships engaged in property investment, and in shares in housing cooperatives and real estate companies.

The Fund favours low-carbon options and energy-efficient solutions. The Fund strives for construction in existing urban structures to the extent possible. Possibilities for reserving and converting an old building are examined carefully.

This financial product promotes environmental or social characteristics, but sustainable investment is not its objective. To the extent that the Fund makes sustainable investments, those investments aligned with the EU Taxonomy which have set climate change mitigation as their environmental goals are considered sustainable investments. Climate change mitigation is promoted by investing in the options that meet the requirements of the EU Taxonomy.

Insofar as the Fund makes sustainable investments with climate change mitigation as the environmental goal, it is assessed in line with the EU Taxonomy that the investment does not cause significant harm to other goals following the EU Taxonomy.

The sustainability indicators monitored include the average energy class, the share of renewable energy in the energy required by properties, the production of renewable energy in properties, the amount of wood construction and conversion properties, and the number of beds in early childhood education and nursing facilities.

More details Basic data, performance and fact figures

Basic data

Fund manager
OP Real Estate Asset Management Ltd
Benchmark index
No benchmark index
Start date
01.11.2017
ISIN
FI4000281738
fund serie
Income unit
Fund size
358 Meur
Serie value (30.09.)
110,79 EUR
Monthly review
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Key Information Document
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Rules
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Sustainability data
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Accumulated profit (30.09)

1mth 3mth 6mth 1 y 3 y p.a. 5 y p.a.
OP-Public Services Real Estate B - +0,76 % +0,61 % −1,17 % +2,65 % +3,12 %
Benchmark - - - - - -

Yearly performance

2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 YTD
OP-Public Services Real Estate B +2,70 % +6,33 % +5,08 % +0,18 % +0,69 % 0,00 %
Benchmark - - - - - -

Key figures

Volatility 12 m vola 12m Sharpe 12 m Duration
OP-Public Services Real Estate B 3,88 % - -
Benchmark index - - -
The portfolio manager of the funds is OP Property Management. We manage several real estate funds investing in residential and commercial properties, plots and forest land.

As our owner-customer, saving and investing is especially worthwhile thanks to the excellent benefits you receive.

Your benefits when investing in funds:

  • Buy and sell almost all OP mutual funds with no fees.*
  • You earn 0.35% OP bonuses from mutual fund and insurance assets.** 

Your benefits when investing through insurance: 

  • Begin saving through insurance free of charge. 
  • You will earn 0.35% of OP bonuses from funds linked to insurance assets.***
  • Switch between investments, invest additional funds and change your payment and investment plan for OP Unit-linked Insurance and OP Capital Redemption Contract free of charge in our digital services.  

**OP bonuses are used to pay the bank’s service charges and insurance premiums.

***You earn OP bonuses from unit-linked insurance policies, excluding individual unit-linked insurance policies and Individual Capital Redemption Contracts. The principles of contribution towards OP bonuses from funds linked to insurance assets will be harmonised with direct investments. As of 1 January 2025, the following funds linked to insurance assets will no longer contribute towards OP bonuses: third-party funds such as JP Morgan funds, structured loans and institutional class funds such as OP-World III A.

Your benefits in equity and ETF investing:

  • Open an equity savings account or book-entry account free of charge.
  • You get a discount on equity trading and a 1% fee ceiling when trading in Finnish listed companies through a book-entry account The discounts apply in digital services.
  • Get access to free stock picks and analysis.
  • Get a discount on the service packages for savers and investors:
    Equity savings account: 
    Saver: €0/month (normally €2.99/month)
    Investor: €9.99/month (normally €14.99/month)
    Book-entry account: 
    Saver: €0/month (normally €2.99/month)
    Investor: €0/month (normally €5.39/month)

Other benefits:

  • Only owner-customers can invest in Profit Shares.

Remember to make use of all benefits:

*Standard fees are charged for the following special common funds: OP-Public Services Real Estate, OP-Forest Owner, OP-Rental Yield, OP-Alternative Portfolio and OP-Private Equity.

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