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Manuel Westphal

Manuel
Westphal FRICS

Managing Director / Head of Valuation Services
Berlin, Frankfurt

On my journey from a newbie in the real estate world to a Managing Director, I have actively helped to shape the expansion of our valuation activities here at BNP Paribas Real Estate. While I enjoy classic tasks such as producing real estate valuations in line with deadlines and the market, I am particularly passionate about tackling the challenges posed by complex project development, restructuring and acquisition valuations. We successfully handle such valuation activities for investors and banks in Germany and abroad on a regular basis in our interdisciplinary team.

I also live out this passion as a member of the Property Valuation Committee of the City of Frankfurt am Main and of the Accounting and Valuation Committee of the German Property Federation (ZIA). In addition, I actively support and promote young talent in our industry as a property valuation lecturer and a counsellor and assessor of the RICS.

Project highlights

  • Acquisition and balance sheet valuations for the largest open German residential real estate fund
  • Buy-side consulting for an Asian investor creating a pan-European platform for logistics properties
  • Financing and balance sheet valuations for various department store portfolios with  conversion potential
  • Balance sheet valuation of a multi-brand hotel portfolio containing more than 200 properties

Vita

Since 2015

Managing Director

2012

Head of Valuation Services

2010

Regional Director
Berlin

2009

Associate Director Valuation Services
Berlin

2003

Start at BNPPRE

Short personal insight

What I love about my job:
The fact that an entrepreneurial mindset and action play such a major role
Name three future trends in the real estate industry:
Digitalisation (people, buildings and e-commerce), flexibilisation and the trio of sustainability, mobility and logistics
My favourite restaurant:
Chez Maurice – a French bistro in my home neighbourhood