AG Real Estate has become one of the first foreign investors in Amvest’s core Dutch residential property fund.

The subsidiary of Belgian insurance provider AG Insurance – along with an unnamed European investor – have committed €100m to the Amvest Residential Core Fund.

Amand-Benoît D’Hondt, head of funds at AG Real Estate, said: “We are delighted to be one of the first two foreign investors in the ARC fund, which we have selected after a thorough analysis of the Dutch market.

“The quality of the assets, the asset locations and the quality of Amvest’s management team have convinced us to invest in ARC fund.�

Amvest is focused on the mid-priced rental segment in regions of the Netherlands that it regards as economically strong, with a significant presence in the Randstad area.

Last year, Dutch investor Coöperatie Draagt Elkanders Lasten (DELA) , contributing its own €121m portfolio.

Wim Wensing, director of investment management at Amvest, said the fund has a “significant pipeline in place�.

The manager has started drawing the commitments from the fund, which now has €1.5bn in total equity.