Managing Director
BuyerSide has been providing services to individuals and professionals since 2013.
Co-founder Nicolas Vincent heads the BtoB department of BuyerSide. He gained his experience as CIO of the Belgian REIT Home Invest Belgium or as top manager at commercial real estate brokers such as Cushman and CBRE.
Nicolas Vincent
MANAGING DIRECTOR
Nicolas Vincent, co-founder and manager of BuyerSide has a degree from the Institut d’Administration et de Gestion [Administration and Management Institute) (IAG) (currently the Louvain School of Management - LSM) at the UCL.
After his studies were complete, he was quickly attracted to the real estate sector, with this taking concrete form in the special training he followed in the United States at the University of Columbia (South Carolina) or the Solvay Business School (Postgraduate degree in Real Estate). His interest in real estate investment has been passed on by family traditions and enthusiasm going back several generations.
He began his career with GVA Grimley where, among other things, he was involved in setting up the closed-end investment company for residential properties, Aedifica (www.aedifica.be). Subsequently, Nicolas served as Associate Director at DTZ Winssinger (now Cushman & Wakefield). He was active in the investment department for 5 years, during which he advised domestic and international clients on major real estate transactions, mainly in Belgium. Nicolas was then Chief Investment Officer (CIO) at Home Invest Belgium. He joined BuyerSide in the summer of 2018 to develop the acquisition consulting department in the professional real estate business sectors.
Through BuyerSide, Nicolas wishes to use his accumulated experience in the professional real estate sector to help and advise professionnal buyers.
Nicolas has been a registered member of the IPI* (Institut Professionnel des agents Immobiliers – Professional Institute of Estate Agents) since 2010, under n° 505230.
Our Team
The BuyerSide team has a wide range of skills and experience in the various aspects of real estate transactions. Depending on your project, a specific Account Manager will be assigned to you in order to accompany you throughout the acquisition process.
Gatien Bienfait
INVESTMENT ANALYST
Gatien began his career on the road to the EU, studying European studies at Maastricht University and holding various positions in the European Youth Parliament.
Following a desire for a change of horizon, it was quite natural that he turned to a first professional experience close to the world of real estate as a sales representative responsible for office rentals in a coworking space in Montgomery. During this period, Gatien took two parallel courses at ICHEC: Sales & Account Management and the Executive Master in Management.
Committed, enthusiastic and interested in everything and everyone, he is involved in various scouting projects and other youth movements, as well as in several sporting activities such as golf, field hockey, soccer and tennis.
It was with this enthusiasm and interest in the real estate sector that he decided to join the BuyerSide team in September 2023.
Gatien speaks French, Dutch and English.
Antoine Lorrain
Account Manager
With a master's degree in management from ULB, Antoine began his career in finance in the hotel and retail sectors (Motel One and Louis Delhaize).
He continued his career in real estate in 2018 by joining Phicap, first as Property Accountant and then as Property Manager in the operational part where he became familiar with commercial real estate and portfolio management. With a growing interest in property investment, he then joined the start-up Masteos as City Manager, responsible for property hunting in Brussels. Finally, Antoine also contributed to the development of the Wesold Group's property portfolio.
His passion for investment and property transactions made him the ideal candidate to reinforce BuyerSide's B2B division.
In addition to the purely transactional aspect, he will also be responsible for the 'sourcing of goods' and the IT development of BuyerSide to collect and centralise information on the 'off-market' goods that we analyse.
Antoine Lorrain will be delighted to advise you on your acquisition, development or trading projects.
Our Specialists
BuyerSide has built a team of professionals who are quickly available if their intervention is necessary or if a specific risk has been previously identified.
Hugues Vangindertael
Tax Advisor
Hugues Vangindertael has a law degree (Université Catholique de Louvain) and an additional Master‘s degree in taxation law issued by ESSF (école supérieure des sciences fiscales – “grande école” for fiscal sciences - ICHEC).
Hugues is a barrister at the bar of Nivelles specialising in real estate structuring and taxation (direct taxes, registration duties and VAT). He has 15 years’ experience in dispensing tax advice to businesses, acquired in large accounting or law firms (PricewaterhouseCoopers and Clifford Chance).
Hugues has taken part in numerous seminars mainly organised by the Echo (“Real Estate Investments: legal, taxation and financial structuring” on 6 October 2004), Kluwer (“VAT and transfrontier operations”, organised each year), and Vanham.
Hugues has contributed to several publications and has also written articles for the Recueil de l'Enregistrement et du Notariat (Collection of Registrations and Notarial Documents), the Bulletin TVA (VAT Report), the Revue Générale de Fiscalité (General Taxation Review), Comptabilité et Fiscalité pratique (Accounting and Practical Taxation), etc. He has taught customs law and real estate VAT at the EPHEC (Haute École Économique et Technique – School specialising in Economic and Technical subjects) and currently runs a general VAT course in this establishment.
Frédéric van den Bosch
Real Estate lawyer
Frédéric van den Bosch is an associate lawyer partner in charge of the real estate law department at Janssens & Associés, whose offices are in Nivelles and Brussels. He dispenses legal advice on a daily basis and deals with disputes (legal and administrative) on the subject of real estate transactions, planning legislation and public contract law. He is regularly appointed as an arbitrator when there are real estate disputes and was a consultant with the Institut Professionnel des Agents Immobilier (IPI), on the subject of legal training for estate agents. He takes part, as either speaker or chairman, in numerous seminars and conferences on the subject of real estate law.
Frédéric intervenes in the following legal steps for complex acquisition projects:
- Legal Due Diligence (Audit)
- Structuring of the acquisition
- SPV creation (company to hold the building)
- Writing of the purchasing offer and contracts
- Urbanistic regularisation
- Etc.
Pascal Van Beirs
Technical expert
Pascal Van Beirs, Senior Project Manager at AT Osborne intervenes to:
- Carry out Technical Due Diligences of buildings.
- Estimate costs and planning of the investments to be made.
- Assist in the identification of needs.
- Negotiate conception (architects) and construction contracts.
- Manage stakeholders.
- Assist with the delivery of the works.
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