CONTACT US

Paul Smolenaers

Partner - Lead V&A Alternatives (EMEA Grade - Partner) • The Netherlands

Paul Smolenaers
Send Me a Message

Paul Smolenaers

Partner - Lead V&A Alternatives (EMEA Grade - Partner) • The Netherlands


About

With over 15 years of experience in specialist real estate markets, Paul currently leads the Dutch Specialist Market Sector, which includes Capital Markets, Valuation & Advisory, and Strategic Consulting. He is a member of the Dutch Strategic Leadership Team of Cushman & Wakefield Netherlands and is active in several EMEA platforms for dedicated focus groups. Paul has personal expertise in development studies, data centre advisory, and heavy industrial assets.

My Team

Paul is responsible for a team of approximately 35 professionals fully dedicated to alternative real estate markets and specialized projects. The team consists of capital markets advisors, appraisers, and consultants. In addition to acquisitions and disposals, the team focuses on specialized valuations and strategic advice.

Projects include (large-scale) land positions, redevelopment studies, data centres, healthcare real estate, operational real estate, leasehold advice, and insurance valuations. The Strategic Consulting department is also part of the team, conducting data-driven research related to the real estate market for governments, developers, and end users.

Clients

  • KLM (Dutch Airlines)
  • ASML
  • Municipality of Rotterdam

Assignments

  • VolkersWessels / Reggeborch | Development Portfolio – IPO advisory
  •  Dela / Yarden | M&A and valuation advisory

Areas of Specialization

  • Development studies
  • Datacentre advisory and valuation
  • (heavy) Industrial sites
  • Healthcare 

Education

  • Technical University Eindhoven – Master’s degree in Real Estate Management and Development
  • University of Applied Sciences Arnhem & Nijmegen (HAN) – Building Cost Consultancy

Affiliations

  • Member of RICS (MRICS)
  • Registered valuer within large scale real estate (RT GZV in NRVT register)
  • Registered valuer insurance valuations (VRT)

With your permission we and our partners would like to use cookies in order to access and record information and process personal data, such as unique identifiers and standard information sent by a device to ensure our website performs as expected, to develop and improve our products, and for advertising and insight purposes.

Alternatively click on More Options and select your preferences before providing or refusing consent. Some processing of your personal data may not require your consent, but you have a right to object to such processing.

You can change your preferences at any time by returning to this site or clicking on Cookies.
MORE OPTIONS
Agree and Close
These cookies ensure that our website performs as expected,for example website traffic load is balanced across our servers to prevent our website from crashing during particularly high usage.
These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced features. These cookies do not gather any information about you that could be used for advertising or remember where you have been on the internet.
These cookies allow us to work with our marketing partners to understand which ads or links you have clicked on before arriving on our website or to help us make our advertising more relevant to you.
Agree All
Reject All
SAVE SETTINGS