Partners of INVESTMENTexpo 2021:

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.

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.

Our German team is represented by c. 70 experienced real estate professionals in three locations in Hamburg, Frankfurt am Main and Munich and is responsible for c. EUR 6.6 billion AuM, of which
around EUR 2.8 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.

AEW represents the real estate asset management platform of Natixis Investment Managers, one of the largest asset managers in the world.

As at 30 September 2024, AEW managed €37.1bn of real estate assets in Europe on behalf of a number of funds and separate accounts. AEW has over 510 employees based in 11 offices across Europe and has a long track record of successfully implementing Core, Value-Add and Opportunistic investment strategies on behalf of its clients. In the last five years, AEW has invested and divested a total volume of almost €17.5bn of real estate across European markets.

The strategic merger aims to create a stronger platform for fund management 'one face to the market' and to increase operational efficiency.

The merger of the German entities will give clients access to a more robust, cross-sector front office with approximately 100 professionals managing more than EUR 10bn in assets across ten European countries. In addition to investments in European residential property, the expertise also includes logistics, office and parking strategies. CIM is a subsidiary of the Stockholm-based Catella Group.

With the experience of over 60 years and 600 employees at 19 locations, GARBE manages real estate assets of approx. 15 billion euros. Get to know our individual divisions now.

Nuveen has $1.3 trillion in assets under management as of 31 Dec 2024 and operations in 27 countries. Its investment specialists offer deep expertise across a comprehensive range of traditional and alternative investments through a wide array of vehicles and customized strategies. For more information, please visit www.nuveen.com.

Deeply European, we have a close understanding of local markets, a view of every square metre, every street, every neighbourhood, every urban eco-system.
With our 290 employees, we care for assets as we care for living beings, aiming to build a better living environment for our 230+ institutional investors and 140,000+ private investors.
We believe in ESG to reconcile social, environmental and financial performance.
We apply innovation in order to better adapt to the risks and opportunities of today and tomorrow.
At the end of 2024, BNP Paribas REIM managed €23.7 billion of living European assets on behalf of institutional and private investors.

For institutional investors and family offices, this independent, owner-managed real estate management company offers a comprehensive range of services across the entire value chain with a team of around 90 experts. These services include acquisition and transaction management, financing, research, fund management, asset management, property management, risk management, and sales. Since its founding in 2014, GPEP has built a nationwide portfolio in Germany comprising approximately 450 properties with a current volume of around €2 billion.

Since its founding nearly 15 years ago, Habona Invest Group has successfully launched eleven real estate funds, including nine closed-end AIFs, one open-end retail fund, and three specialized funds for renowned institutional investors. The company currently manages assets worth over €1.1 billion.
To ensure optimal outcomes for both investors and tenants, Habona Invest Group operates with a fully integrated approach. From property acquisition and ongoing asset management to the planned sale, all processes are handled in-house by a team of around 70 highly skilled real estate professionals.
The annually published Habona Report is Germany’s only market and trend report focused exclusively on local supply infrastructure. It is produced by Habona Invest Consulting GmbH, a Hamburg-based subsidiary of Habona Invest GmbH.

Our focus is on creating and improving sustainable living and working environments in urban locations, whilst respecting ecological, economic and social factors. The Group, founded in 1997, employs 100 staff members and manages project and property assets of over €4.0 billion across Germany in the asset classes of residential, social infrastructure, city districts and office properties. For more information, please visit: hamburgteam.de.

It has its head office in Hamburg and also maintains a branch in Frankfurt am Main. HANSAINVEST is represented in Luxembourg by the subsidiary HANSAINVEST LUX S.A. A total of around 500 mutual and special funds with gross fund assets of more than EUR 64 billion are currently managed by approximately 350 employees. (Information correct as at 31 March 2023)

Quadoro Investment GmbH is a high-performing AIFM that gives clients access to the regulated market.

Quadoro prioritizes sustainability at both company and investment level. Its tailored group-wide ESG strategy is regularly reviewed and adjusted to meet current needs. Using market and employee surveys, and the resulting actions, we are continuously improving our footprint in the areas of environment, social affairs and corporate governance. We are also guided by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI).

In particular DLA Piper's Real Estate practice, with more than 500 leading real estate specialists, including around 30 dedicated lawyers in Germany, is one of the firm's most specialized global practice groups, providing exceptional service.

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.

Options include the launching of both open-ended and closed-end real estate funds or real asset funds or the outsourcing of AIFM back offices to INTREAL. With over 500 employees, the INTREAL Group offers long-term real estate know-how along with detailed and highly professional fund management expertise.
 
In Luxembourg, the largest investment fund centre in Europe, INTREAL is represented by its subsidiary, INTREAL Luxembourg. INTREAL Luxembourg is an independent AIFM and central administrator for Luxembourg-domiciled real estate funds and other real asset classes such as infrastructure or private debt for German and international clients.
 
Through its subsidiaries, INTREAL Solutions and REAX Advisory, the company makes its comprehensive fund experience in the real asset sector available to other market players within the scope of best-practice consultancy. INTREAL Solutions provides IT consulting services and IT services (e.g. IT infrastructure, IT compliance, AI solutions), whereas REAX Advisory acts as management consulting firm, helping to organise processes and structures more efficiently, to cut costs, to manage risks or to develop and implement ESG strategies.

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.

With a circulation of 7,000 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.  portfolio institutionell is therefore 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.