- CEO
- William Vanmoerkerke
- Full Time Employees
- 7
- Sector
- Finance
- Industry
- Real estate investment trusts
- Address
- Museumstraat 11/211 Ghent Belgium 2000
- IPO Date
- Dec 18, 2013
- Business
- Qrf Comm. VA (QRF.BR) is a Belgian publicly regulated real estate investment company (BE-REIT or GVV) that specializes in the acquisition, redevelopment, and leasing of commercial real estate situated in the city centers of Belgium and the Netherlands. The company focuses on properties dedicated to retail, consumer spending, leisure, culture, and hospitality, including shopping centers, high-street retail units, and mixed-use developments leased to major tenants such as H&M, Inditex group brands, and The Sting; it maintains a portfolio emphasizing inner-city locations with redevelopment potential to enhance value through asset management and tenant optimization. Qrf Comm. VA operates through two primary geographic segments—Belgium, which generates the majority of revenue, and the Netherlands—and targets institutional investors and retail tenants in resilient urban markets.
Founded on September 3, 2013, and headquartered at Museumstraat 11/211 in Antwerp, Belgium, the company listed on Euronext Brussels shortly thereafter with an initial retail property portfolio valued at approximately EUR 114 million. It adheres to a conservative financing strategy with a target debt ratio of around 50% (temporarily up to 55% for opportunistic deals) and an active interest rate hedging policy.
In recent developments, Qrf Comm. VA completed two strategic acquisitions on September 30, 2025—a portfolio of fifteen prime inner-city properties and a shopping center in Oostende featuring an Inditex group brand as the new anchor tenant (set to open in Q2 2026)—partially financed through a capital increase. Earlier activities include the Q4 2024 results announcement in February 2025 and Q3 2024 results in October 2024, alongside ongoing transparency declarations regarding major shareholders such as Quintet Private Bank and reference investors. The company continues to pursue portfolio expansion and redevelopment, as evidenced by prior transactions like the 2023 acquisition of Korenmarkt and sales of non-core assets.