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Rachid Chikhi Innovative Investor & Founder
Transforming finance & tech in Dubai, Belgium, Morocco 🚀

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💼 Founder of RodTechs &
🚀 Shaping the future of & in global hubs

🔴 BREAKING | BNP Paribas Real Estate Investment Management, a major institutional real estate player, disappeared into t...
17/06/2026

🔴 BREAKING | BNP Paribas Real Estate Investment Management, a major institutional real estate player, disappeared into the same structure.
AXA IM no longer exists. As of December 31, 2025, one of Europe's most established asset managers, founded in 1997, was officially absorbed into BNP Paribas Asset Management.

The result: a €1.6 trillion platform. Top 3 in Europe.
Everyone's talking about the scale. Almost nobody's talking about what got quietly folded in.
Here's why that matters.

When real estate management consolidates into mega-platforms this size, two things happen. Decision-making slows down. And the appetite for off-market, mid-size, high-conviction deals shrinks because €1.6 trillion platforms don't move for a €50M building.
That's an opening in the market. The bigger these institutions get, the more space opens up for agile players who can move fast, directly, and with conviction on assets the giants overlook.

Consolidation at the top always creates opportunity at the edge.
That's exactly where I operate.

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15/06/2026

That's why every investment team in 2026 should use AI for due diligence.

12/06/2026

A Belgian investor is not laughing anymore about Porto Student Housing.

🔴 BREAKING | OpenAI has officially filed its confidential IPO registration with US financial regulators. Target valuatio...
11/06/2026

🔴 BREAKING | OpenAI has officially filed its confidential IPO registration with US financial regulators.

Target valuation: between $852 billion and $1 trillion.

Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and JPMorgan are leading the deal. Target listing: September 2026.
In the same window... Anthropic filed its own on June 1st at $965 billion. Two of the most valuable companies in the world hitting public markets at the same time. This has never happened before.

But here's what nobody is talking about... Every data center OpenAI will build with this capital needs land, infrastructure, and long-term leases. Every regional office they open in Europe will occupy prime CBD space.

Microsoft already committed $80 billion in AI physical infrastructure in 2025 alone, most of it in real estate.
AI IPOs don't stay in tech. They land somewhere physical, and they reprice the assets around them.

That's exactly the angle I'm watching across several European markets right now.
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09/06/2026

2 Deals. 25 Million Euros. Here's why The one with the higher Yield was the wrong choice

06/06/2026

This is what you need to check on Student Housing in every major European city.

04/06/2026

3 actions opérationnelles à mettre en place dès mon retour de Tanger.

Eight funds. €4Bn dry powder. All are chasing the same student bed.Student housing has become one of the most competitiv...
02/06/2026

Eight funds. €4Bn dry powder. All are chasing the same student bed.
Student housing has become one of the most competitive real estate asset classes in Europe.

But here is what many owners and advisors still underestimate:
Knowing the value of the asset is not enough. You also need to know who the right buyer is, because not every investor is chasing the same product.

Xior will look for stabilized prime assets with strong occupancy. GSA will focus on prime locations with institutional operator quality. Brookfield will prefer scale, complexity, or distressed entry points.

Growth-oriented platforms will look at value-add conversions. Core and core+ funds will prioritize ESG, long leases, and income visibility. Family offices will often move faster, especially on smaller tickets with value-add potential.
Same asset class. Different mandates. Different ticket sizes. Different underwriting logic. And this is where many transactions lose time.

A good asset sent to the wrong buyer can stay stuck for months. A correctly positioned asset, matched with the right capital profile, can move much faster. In PBSA, the question is no longer only: “What is this asset worth?”
The better question is, "Who is this asset really built for?”

Anyone seeing family office tickets stretching above €20M for prime CBD student housing?


$965B vs $852B. Anthropic just passed OpenAI. Same race, opposite playbooks. Anthropic | OpenAI: Built for enterprises a...
01/06/2026

$965B vs $852B. Anthropic just passed OpenAI. Same race, opposite playbooks.

Anthropic | OpenAI:

Built for enterprises and devs | Built for the masses
Bet early on agents | ChatGPT, the generalist
Claude Code: $2.5B in one year | Owns consumer (47% of downloads)
Backed by Amazon and Google | Tied to Microsoft (cooling off)
Valuation: $965B | Valuation: $852B

Most valuable isn't the same as winning. The real fight starts now: IPOs, agents, robotics.

29/05/2026

Une phrase entendue au Forum MDM à Tanger m’a marqué, et je vais vous expliquer pourquoi.

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