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Residential developments

The company has a long history in developing Residential projects across Belgium, particularly Apartment blocks. Completed developments range from smaller 30/40 unit schemes of Luxury Apartments up to much larger blocks with 200+ apartments. Many of the properties are beachfront complexes or are connected to yacht harbours. Customers have included owner-occupiers, private investors and institutional investors.

Commercial developments

The Scheerlinck group of companies has developed properties for a diverse rage of corporate entities, both on a speculative and a bespoke basis. Projects include industrial parks, bespoke complexes for large industrial occupiers, own-door office for smaller companies, stand-alone Headquarter office buildings for large occupiers, laboratories and more recently multiple logistics facilities. In total the group has delivered well in excess of 1,000,000 sq.ft of commercial space.

Refurbishment

The company has been involved in many refurbishment projects including a full Castle restoration and conversions of Historic Buildings to produce luxury apartments, tourist accommodation and food and beverage outlets.

Nielsen’s career began as a young entrepreneur in his teenage years. By the time he was 16 Nielsen had created the largest independent wrestling website in the world called “Wrestling Planet”. That business grew at a fast pace and ultimately evolved into a Los Angeles based production company that focused on low cost documentaries and childrens animation. The company sold thousands of documentaries to every major TV network in the USA. 850 minutes of the childrens animation series still runs on tv networks around the world from Canada to the Middle East.

During the 2008 financial crisis Nielsen saw growing opportunities in real estate, an industry in which his family had been active for generations. He established a number of real estate platforms and set about acquiring distressed assets in the Netherlands and the Republic of Ireland (Dublin City).
As expected, both countries recovered from the crisis and are soaring economies once again. Since Nielsen entered the Dublin market typical rents have doubled, and capitalisation rates have compressed substantially.
Ever expanding, the Irish businesses strategy steadily evolved from buying cash flowing properties into the purchase of large development sites around Dublin.

More recently, Nielsen identified significant investment opportunities in distressed parts of the multifamily residential sector in the United States. Some initial investments have been made in Southern states in the US. An operating platform has also been established in that jurisdiction which will be scaled up to take advantage of the investment opportunities.