Aermont Capital

Aermont Capital

Aermont Capital was founded in 2005 by the van der Zee family, which built its wealth through a Netherlands-based real estate empire. The firm operates as a single-family office, though it has expanded beyond managing its own capital to co-invest with institutional partners on a deal-by-deal basis. Strategy centers on real estate equity, infrastructure, and private credit across Western and Central Europe. The firm has completed notable transactions including the acquisition of a portfolio of German logistics assets in 2021 (per PropertyEU, 2021) and a significant investment in UK student housing via a joint venture with Greystar (per React News, 2022). Geographic focus is on the UK, Germany, Benelux, and Poland, with selective exposure to Southern Europe. Team size is approximately 60 professionals, based primarily in London with a secondary office in Luxembourg. Aermont does not publicly disclose AUM, but industry estimates place assets under management between $10 billion and $20 billion (Altss estimate). The firm has no separate philanthropic entity reported in public filings. Aermont's structural differentiator is its hybrid model: it deploys family capital directly into illiquid real assets while offering co-investment opportunities to selected institutional LPs. This allows the firm to maintain long hold periods without the pressure of redemptions, while leveraging outside capital to scale larger transactions.