13 Acquisition expenses

Under the Fair Value model, acquisition expenses of investments under the fair value assumptions according to IFRS may be partly charged to income or equity as fair value changes at the first subsequent measurement date after acquisition. This is when the fair value at the moment of measurement is less than the total amount of the purchase value of the assets and the acquisition expenses.

This adjustment represents the impact on NAV of the capitalisation and amortisation of acquisition expenses over the period from acquisition of the specific asset to five years after initial closing.

When an asset is sold during the amortisation period, the balance of capitalised acquisition expenses is charged to the income statement in the period of sale.

When capitalising and amortising acquisition costs, a possible impairment test should be taken into account every time the adjusted NAV is calculated (when market circumstances change) and it is not expected that the capitalised acquisition costs can be utilised with the sale of units of the Fund.

Most of the acquisitions are realised via a turn-key agreement with a development company. Since these acquisitions can be purchased free of transfer-tax normally the acquisition price is higher than if transfer-taxes should be paid separately. The valuation methodology is the net valuation after deduction of acquisition cost for a potential buyer. At initial recognition and during the instalments a part in the revaluation result will include the effect of the difference of the purchase price and the net valuation after deduction of acquisition cost for a potential buyer. This difference is taken into account in the INREV NAV as a separate item in the INREV adjustment in respect to Acquisition expenses.

* In 2016, the Fund reassessed the policy for the capitalisation and amortisation of (notional) acquisition expenses for ‘Investment property under construction’ and made some modifications.