Interview: Colony Corners Dublin's Mega Lease Market
November 19, 2018

Interview: Colony Corners Dublin's Mega Lease Market

Steadily, over the past five years, Colony Capital has made a bet that shows massive faith in Dublin.

The company's Dublin real estate portfolio is currently valued at over €3B, huge for a city area of around 1.3M people, and making it one of the biggest owners and developers in the Irish capital. Given it thinks Dublin could be running short of office space by 2021, it is not done yet.

Colony's acquisition of a 4.6-acre site known as Project Waterfront on Dublin's North Wall Quay for €180M — announced last month — is the latest in a line of high profile deals in the capital for the U.S. investment company.

Colony managing director of investment management Stefan Jaeger talked Bisnow through the firm's strategy, and how focusing on big schemes for big tenants had proved a profitable niche to play in. Since entering the Dublin market in 2013, Colony has…

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