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Axis RERA Opportunities Fund 2

IME AIF Rating: 3-star | Open for subscription: Yes | AIF Category: High Yield Debt
  • Strong Residential Real Estate Recovery: Residential market across top cities has seen a strong recovery since covid after a long period of a funding crisis and high levels of unsold inventory in the system.
  • Gap in Funding Environment: Banks and NBFCs have reduced exposure to real estate during a strong regulatory intervention period through RERA, GST and IL&FS causing a lack of funding sources for smaller credible regional players. Lack of competition presents better pricing opportunities for AIFs such as Axis RERA fund.
  • Attractive Yields in a Closed-ended AIF Structure: 14-18% gross IRR is an attractive proposition managed by an experienced team from real estate background through a closed-ended structure (removing redemption related risks in adverse environment)
  • Axis Institution Backing: Axis RERA fund comes with the parentage backing of Axis bank — allows for cross-learning from bank mortgage data in micro markets and various developer related data points etc
  • Higher Risk for Higher Yields: Willingness to fund from the early to late stage of the funding cycle clearly provides for higher returns, however, this comes with higher risk through project execution or delays, defaults and any other unforeseen external factors. There is a reasonably high chance of some credit events (delays or outright defaults) given the lending segment, that could impact IRR’s for investors
  • High defaults in this segment: Funding early stage real estate projects, has seen substantial defaults & delays over the 2015-20, which is why most lenders have vacated the space. While this does make it easier to cherry pick deals, it is important to understand that this is an inherently higher-risk segment
  • Risk of a slowdown in Residential Market/Economy could impact bank-ended payment structure: given the closed-ended structure of the AIF, the 5-year tenure can coincide with a slowing real estate/economy cycle impacting sales and therefore the back-ended principal payments leading to a capital loss in worst case scenario
  • Reasonable High-Yield Debt Option: This is a decent fund for investors who are comfortable with real-estate lending and seeking professional mgmt & higher-yields. However, we point out the clearly higher risks on such a strategy, and would accordingly recommend this primarily to investors seeking higher-yield debt options and who are comfortable taking on a higher level of risk.

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