Our partners 2023

Decades of experience, proximity to the real estate markets and a tight-knit network allow us to identify real estate opportunities and quickly implement them in the right phase of the market.

Around 260 institutional clients have entrusted their investments to HIH Invest Real Estate. Our specialists for structuring, product development, real estate management and market development all work to develop the right investment solutions for them.

HIH Invest Real Estate is represented at eight locations throughout Europe. As part of the HIH Group, our in-house capacities cover the entire real estate investment value chain.

Early identification of changes in the market, implementation of regulatory requirements and future-oriented digital management are part of our corporate philosophy.

We currently manage assets with a volume of more than EUR 19.8 billion across 92 funds.

M&G has over 353 billion euros in assets under management worldwide. Our real estate division, M&G Real Estate, is responsible for 45 billion euros in real estate equity and debt (as at 30 June 2023). Our clients include insurance companies, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, banks and private investors.

With more than 300 employees worldwide, M&G Real Estate manages some of the largest open-ended, diversified core real estate investment funds in Europe and Asia. Long-lease and living investment funds, joint ventures and individual mandates round off the product range. In addition, the M&G Real Estate Debt team has provided more than 15 billion euros in real estate financing since 2008.

M&G takes an active approach to responsible investing and strives to continuously improve the sustainability of its investments. Therefore M&G is committed to achieve net-zero carbon emissions across all its assets under management by 2050, as well as to reduce CO2 emissions as a company to zero by 2030.

Our German team is represented by 70+ experienced real estate professionals in three locations in Hamburg, Frankfurt am Main and Munich and is responsible for close to EUR 7 billion AuM, of which EUR 2.9 billion are in Germany.

We offer clients access to a full range of products, consisting of pooled funds, separate accounts, strategic partnerships and Asset Management. These range from core to value add and we invest across a broad spectrum of assets such as office, retail, logistics, residential and alternatives. Our debt offering includes products in the high yield, whole loan and senior space.

We believe income is the bedrock of long-term real estate performance. We are proud of our 30+ years track record built upon our local insight, investment and asset management resources; and this is how we have delivered sustainable returns to our clients.

CREAG is a licensed capital management company (KVG) under German investment law (KAGB). The purpose of the company is the conception, development and management of open-ended real estate special funds, which are based on the expertise and outstanding market position of the Catella Group.

They gain access to attractive real estate financing, either on a deal by deal basis, via separately managed accounts or debt funds.

With over 85 years of real estate investing experience and more than 800 employees* located across 30+ cities throughout the United States, Europe and Asia Pacific, the platform offers unparalleled geographic reach, which is married with deep sector expertise.
For further information, please visit us at nuveen.com/realestate  

*Includes 395+ real estate investment professionals, supported by a further 400+ Nuveen employees.
Source: Nuveen, 30 Sep 2023

In addition to alternative investment funds (special AIFs and closed-end public AIFs) and an open-ended public property fund, the range of products and services includes individual fund solutions, club deals, joint ventures and asset management mandates for institutional clients. Real I.S. Property Management GmbH rounds off the range of services. The Real I.S. Group has more than 12 billion euros in assets under management and has two licensed capital management companies (KVGs) in accordance with the German Investment Code (KAGB) as well as subsidiaries and branches in France, Luxembourg, Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands and Australia.

Art-Invest Real Estate pursues a “Manage to Core” / ”Manage to Sustainability” investment strategy. The company based in Cologne, was founded in 2010 by the managing partners and the Zech Group. In total, Art-Invest Real Estate manages real estate assets of around EUR 12 billion. Art-Invest Real Estate is now one of the largest project developers of offices and hotels in Germany.
Through its own capital management company, it has already launched 24 investment funds for institutional investors such as pension schemes and foundations since 2012. The interests of the investors are the main focus of the company's activities. Careful attention is paid from the start to the avoidance of conflicts of interest. Consequently, the strategies of the investment vehicles launched and managed by us are specifically conceived, in terms of profile, investment timetable and market sector to avoid any overlaps. Alongside careful adherence to investment law, the highest priority is given to successful asset management by the Art-Invest Real Estate team.
The range of investments spans the entire return and risk spectrum in the office, inner-city retail, hotel, residential and data centre sectors.
Changes to investment law permit the company to make use of new investment vehicles, including the “Investment-Kommanditgesellschaft” (investment limited partnership). In addition, we offer investors a Luxembourg platform primarily for alternative investments (including private equity and operator strategies).
Along the real estate value chain, Art-Invest Real Estate acts as an innovation leader also through its investments: “Design Offices” as a leading provider of flexible office and corporate coworking space, “BitStone Capital” as a venture capital company, “maincubes” as a developer and operator of data centers, “wusys” as a sector-independent IT service provider, “smartengine” as a provider of technology for intelligent buildings, “i Live” as a developer and operator of micro-living and serviced apartments, and “Scopes” as a provider of tenant planning and interior design.

Commerz Real combines comprehensive asset management know-how and broad structuring expertise to create its characteristic range of tangible asset-oriented fund products and individual financing solutions.
Our portfolio also includes entrepreneurial investments with investments in tangible assets in the key segments of real estate and renewable energies. In its role as the leasing service provider of the Commerzbank Group, Commerz Real also offers tailored equipment leasing concepts.
We create sustainable lifescapes that inspire. Success through responsibility.

Our team consists of more than 140 employees, including 20 investment managers and 25 asset managers, led by an experienced and renowned management team.

Columbia Threadneedle REP has a strong regional presence in the European real estate markets with offices in London, Munich and Paris. Our purpose is to create and manage successful and sustainable property investment portfolios for our clients as well as for our tenants.

The Deutsche Finance Group manages assets of EUR 12.2 billion.

With the experience of over 50 years and 400 employees at 16 locations, GARBE manages real estate assets of approx. 13 billion euros. Get to know our individual divisions now.

For institutional and private investors as well as family offices, the independent and owner-managed real estate management company with its team of around 90 experts offers the entire value chain. This includes acquisition and transaction management, financing, research, fund management, asset management, property management, ESG management, risk management and sales. Each portfolio is managed and serviced by a dedicated team. Both tenants and investors have fixed points of contact.

Since its foundation in 2014, GPEP has built up a portfolio with a volume of around EUR 2.0 billion AuM and 450 properties and manages almost 1,100,000 m2 of rental space.

The Habona Invest Group stands out for addressing the human requirement for daily necessities creating crisis resilience, stability, and a unique "added value". This concept is at the heart of Habona's founding idea: designing and managing tailor-made investments centered around local supply and fundamental needs. In German language the acronym Habona itself encapsulates the elements of "house" and "land," with "sustainability" being a key component.

Over more than a decade, Habona Invest has successfully launched nine closed and one open ended Real Estate funds for private investors. Additionally, three specialized Real Estate funds for institutional investors have been initiated, along with an actively managed equity fund that makes basic supply a viable investment across asset classes. The investment focus of the Real Estate funds is on online-resistant local supply properties with creditworthy main tenants, offering broad investor circles the opportunity to participate in the local supply asset class. The management has established stable and trustworthy market access across Germany, essential for a powerful acquisition pipeline and diversified portfolio construction. The off-market rate stands at around 60 percent. Acquisitions are based on highly specialized market and location analyses by experienced experts in the in-house research team. To ensure the quality and value of investment properties, an in-house property management team exclusively oversees the properties and tenants. Currently, the assets under management amount to more than 1 billion euros. The quality of the funds and management is regularly confirmed by independent parties. The annual Habona Report is Germany's only market and trend report focused on local supply.

Through our in-house capital management company, we develop products for institutional investors, focusing on residential and office properties in Germany and Austria.

In addition to acquiring existing properties, HT group also participates in projects and project developments at an early stage. For example, we are currently developing the LEIQ, a carbon-neutral operating office complex with a total area of around 40.000 m² in Offenbach am Kaiserlei. At present, HT Group manages assets under management of approximately 2.5 billion euros with a team of around 40 employees.

For further information, please visit: www.htg-realestate.de

INDUSTRIA is part of the Becken Group, an owner-managed real estate and investment company based in Hamburg that has been active in Germany's leading metropolitan regions since 1978. INDUSTRIA currently manages around 18,700 residential units with a volume of more than EUR 4.9 billion in the German housing market and can call on 70 years of market experience.

Via the INTREAL Group's service platform, we offer our business partners – including asset managers, AIF management companies, investors as well as any other type of client who takes advantage of our services – all relevant IT services and best-practice consultancy in addition to our tailored solutions for initiating and administrating real estate funds and real estate-related funds.

With more than 500 employees working in our offices in Hamburg, Frankfurt and Luxembourg, we can offer you all-in packages that cover state of the art reporting solutions for all relevant investor groups, risk management, corporate management, investment law, taxes and hands-on IT consulting.

Our investments benefit a wide range of pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies and private investors around the world. The opportunities we create and uncover today are designed to align with their long-term investment objectives and benefit the thousands of pensioners, investors and other stakeholders that they represent.

Principal Asset ManagementSM is a global asset manager (Nasdaq: PFG) with USD 540 billion assets under management of as of December 31, 2023.

In addressing institutional investors in Germany and Austria we focus on investments in real estate, infrastructure, and direct lending.

CREAG is a licensed capital management company (KVG) under German investment law (KAGB). The purpose of the company is the conception, development and management of open-ended real estate special funds, which are based on the expertise and outstanding market position of the Catella Group.

The company's assets under management approximate 1.5 billion euros, with real estate debt accounting for c. 500 million thereof and the other two segments for c. 1.0 billion euros.

In particular, the service spectrum of BF.capital includes auditing the projects to be financed and assisting investors with due diligences, structuring and the selection of service providers to ensure all relevant regulatory requirements are met. The services of BF.capital are intended for insurance companies, pension funds, investment funds, family offices and other institutional investors.

Since October 2023, BF.capital has also managed the private debt investments of its strategic shareholding partner, W&W Asset Management, and in this context has expanded its activities within the private debt asset class to include the areas of corporate debt and infrastructure debt. In these areas, BF.direkt is responsible for selecting managers and for planning fund-of-fund structures.

The management boasts a strong track record in all of the three segments. BF.Capital is owned to 65 percent by the Group's holding company, BF.direkt AG, and to 35 percent by W&W Asset Management.

Increasing sustainability, requirements and advancing digitalization are also driving developments in the real estate industry. The focus is on popular asset classes such as data centers, critical infrastructure and PropTech projects. New legal issues arise in almost all areas. Our aim is to provide our clients with reliable and secure answers for the future. Thanks to our broad expertise combined with a very high degree of specialization and an international network, we think outside the legal box and develop efficient new solutions for our clients from a single source. This includes not only asset management, transactions, financing and restructuring. Our sector expertise, such as in the areas of energy and infrastructure as well as technology, ensures that we see the big picture and can cover special aspects outside the traditional real estate industry.

The company’s team is made up of experts in the areas of investment funds, real estate, infrastructure and debt, and covers the global markets in the investment fund sector as well as the secondary market trading of equity interests. Its investors hail mainly from Germany or other German-speaking countries (the DACH region). Overall, the company placed 40 different funds in a combined volume of c. 3 billion euros in the real estate sector in more than 110 transactions over roughly the past 8 years or recommended investments in these funds to institutional investors before implementing the corresponding transactions.

McDermott Will & Emery is one of the leading law firms in the areas of investment funds, real estate and infrastructure in Germany. We offer 360-degree solutions for all aspects of real estate and infrastructure projects and have advised on and successfully executed some of the largest and most sophisticated transactions in Germany in recent years. We advise investors, fund and asset managers, project developers, family offices and others on all legal, regulatory, tax and related issues, including structuring, financing, tax, regulatory and corporate law.

Our experienced funds practice provides comprehensive advice to AIF and UCITS investment management companies, fund initiators, institutional investors, private equity funds and others on the launch and management of funds. We structure special assets of various asset classes, investment KGs and other investment companies, fund-of-funds structures, funds of funds and club deals as well as foreign regulated structures. In addition, we advise on licensing procedures with regulatory authorities, on regulatory issues (KAGB, VAG, KWG, Solvency II, etc.) as well as on tax and compliance issues. www.mwe.com/de/

The heart of our foundation is the Sonnenhof in Berlin-Pankow where our inpatient hospice has twelve beds. As part of our palliative care respite, we also accommodate parents as well as siblings of all ages in family apartments and provide therapeutic and educational support, such as art and music therapy.

With a variety of outpatient services, we support over 650 families in Berlin and Brandenburg each year. We follow a holistic approach and provide support to parents, siblings and relatives not only during the often long phase of illness, but also beyond the child's death with various individual and group offerings.

While the financing of the medical and nursing care for our guests is mostly covered by the health insurance funds, the pedagogical and therapeutic support for our guests and their families is funded through donations.

Every week, our editorial team of around 30 people reports expertly on what is happening on the property market, providing background information, market data, personal and company news. The print offering is supplemented by the news portal IZ.de, the daily newsletter IZ Aktuell and the IZ App.

The core target group consists of decision-makers from private banking, wealth management, insurance companies and pension funds, asset managers, family offices, foundations and institutional organisations. INTELLIGENT INVESTORS is published in a very high print quality, with a modern magazine layout, a generous visual language and clear graphics. INTELLIGENT INVESTORS is published with a print run of 5,000 copies. The magazine is distributed directly to a qualified mailing list. The magazine thus reaches the core target group   directly and without any wastage.
 
The print magazine is optimally complemented by the daily updated web portal www.intelligent-investors.de and the weekly newsletter.
 
The magazine is published 4 times a year (quarterly).
The web portal www.intelligent-investors.de also provides the target group with an up-to-date market overview throughout the year as well as exclusive access to articles with a high added value and utility factor. The digital offering is supplemented by the weekly newsletter and social media presence.

IREBS International Real Estate Business School comprises eight chairs and professorships in economics and law, as well as eleven honorary and guest professorships at the University of Regensburg. The education at IREBS is interdisciplinary and practice-oriented, aiming to prepare students for their professional careers. The research conducted covers both current applied issues and challenging fundamental research in the field.

IREBS is also dedicated to the further education of young managers and specialists at its locations in Berlin, Eltville, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt a. M., Hamburg, Munich and Vienna. With its broad range of services, IREBS is one of the top international universities in the property sector.

After more than three decades on the market, IRE|BS Executive Education offers excellent contacts in all sectors of the real estate industry. IRE|BS Executive Education has laid the foundation for many networks in its role as a pioneer of further education in the real estate industry in Germany, and has supported them in their growth ever since.

With a circulation of 8,000 copies, the specialist magazine reaches those responsible for the personal investments of professional pension funds, pension and supplementary pension funds, pension funds/CTAs, insurance companies, foundations and church institutions as well as treasurers of corporates and banks. The high level of target group identification is also reflected in the portfolio institutionell Awards: Since 2006, these have been recognizing outstanding processes and exemplary investment strategies in 15 categories and have developed into the seal of quality for institutional capital investment in Germany. The day of the award ceremony is traditionally started off by portfolio institutionell's annual conference.
portfolio institutionell is a reputable, cross-media source of information that covers the entire spectrum of institutional capital investments in Germany.

Our growing readership base includes pension funds, asset managers, US and global institutional real-estate investors, global REITs and similarly-listed vehicles, private investors, corporate treasurers, lawyers, public administrators, banks and other financial professionals, academics, traders, and many others.

The focus of our editorial content is Germany and German-speaking Europe.  We concentrate on the continent and the enlarged European Union because this is where we know the markets most intimately. We cover Germany extensively, for a number of compelling reasons.  While Germany has been a noted underperformer in real-estate over the last decade, all sectors of the German real estate market are now attracting serious investor attention.

The articles can be searched by topic, company and person. The extensive archive is a transparent reference work for industry knowledge and opinion. The Property Post Letter informs more than 14,000 decision-makers from the professional property industry about interesting articles at least once a week.

The vdp represents the Pfandbrief-specific interests of its member institutions in dealings with legislators, supervisory authorities, rating agencies, and other market participants. In carrying out this task, the vdp interfaces with entities on all levels of political and executive authority, both nationally and internationally. It provides its range of services to Pfandbrief issuers from all three pillars of the German banking industry  (private, public sector, and cooperative banks), so ensuring that their interests are effectively represented on all matters relating to both the Pfandbrief itself and the underlying business sectors.