Union Investment Real Estate GmbH

Union Investment stands for forward-looking real estate investment worldwide and is one of Europe's leading real estate investment managers. Our business model is based on the strong foundation of over 50 years of real estate expertise. We provide our property investors with a comprehensive investment platform. We currently have assets under management totalling around EUR 41.4 billion in our open-ended retail real estate funds, specialized funds and service and pooling mandates and are Germany's largest provider for open-ended real estate funds for private investors. We invest in the office, retail, hotel, logistics and residential sectors and hold around 370 commercial properties across 23 countries in our actively managed portfolio.

Operating as a real estate investor and active asset manager in a highly competitive environment, our transaction expertise allows us to secure properties that offer steady, sustainable income. Whether acquiring development projects, negotiating high-value transactions or entering into complex international joint venture deals, all our investments are safeguarded by active risk management. An increased international focus creates an additional basis for high fund returns. The international expansion of our business is of major strategic importance to us. Our offices in Hamburg, Vienna, Paris, Madrid, New York and Singapore allow us to combine an international investor’s perspective with in-depth market knowledge of the individual regions. Some 60 per cent of our real estate assets are located outside Germany.

Within the Union Investment Group Hamburg-based Union Investment Real Estate GmbH and Union Investment Property Institutional GmbH are the real estate specialist. Union Investment Real Estate GmbH focuses on private investors, while Union Investment Institutional Property GmbH serves as a partner to institutional investors. Its demanding institutional investor base includes banks, pension funds, insurance companies, faith-based organisations, industrial companies and non-profit organizations such as foundations and associations.

In addition to open-ended real estate retail funds and special real estate funds, the Union Investment Institutional Property GmbH offers a comprehensive range of customized solutions. This includes special funds constructed around a specific theme and so-called service mandates, where Union Investment collaborates with external asset managers. For investors who want to pool all their property investments in a single fund, Union Investment can provide innovative, customized pooling vehicles which can be structured as a German or Luxembourg investment vehicle, for example. The product offering is rounded off by investment solutions in campus properties, micro living and in the infrastructure fund sector.