For more than 60 years, Union Investment has stood for forward-looking and professional management of real estate and investments. Responsibility, foresight, and a consistent focus on quality guide our actions, with the aim of creating long-term value for investors.
We are the largest provider of real estate solutions for private and institutional investors in Germany and manage investments with a total volume of EUR 50 billion. Our comprehensive product range includes open-ended real estate funds, special funds, service KVG solutions, as well as management and insourcing mandates.
With our diversified positioning, local offices and active management approach, we cover all major real estate sectors and markets in Europe and Overseas. Our services address the key stages of the real estate value chain and include portfolio, investment, and asset management, real estate project management, and leasing. We further develop the properties under our management in a targeted manner, continuously invest in modernization and energy efficiency measures, and place strong emphasis on high-quality neighborhoods. In this way, we create value for investors, users, society, and the environment.
Union Investment Real Estate GmbH and Union Investment Institutional Property GmbH, both based in Hamburg, form the center of expertise for commercial real estate within the Union Investment Group, the asset management expert in the Genossenschaftliche FinanzGruppe.
Investment principles & strategy
Union Investment – active in 24 countries worldwide – has many years of experience in real estate investment, strong in-house expertise in asset management, its own project and risk management team, and extensive research capabilities. These strengths make it one of Europe’s leading real estate investment managers.
Union Investment has been offering real estate solutions for institutional investors for over 48 years. The first special fund was launched in 1977, and the first institutional public fund in 2004. The first service KVG mandate was added in 2011, followed by the first bundling vehicle in 2012. Currently, €10 billion is invested in actively managed funds and €10.1 billion in service mandates.
Union Investment offers institutional investors individual real estate solutions under German and Luxembourg law, as well as an effective platform (pooling vehicles, real estate service KVG mandates). Union Investment covers the entire value chain: from research to transaction and fund management, risk management and reporting to active asset management.
In addition to its broadly diversified products (special and public funds), Union Investment develops special solutions and strategies tailored to individual client requirements. Most recently, this has involved the launch of specific thematic funds, as well as the offering of investment limited partnerships, real estate service KVG mandates and pooling vehicles.
Strategic corporate development
Union Investment aims to progressively expand its product range for institutional customers by creating more special funds for bundling indirect property investments and providing property administration services. The strategic corporate development is building on:
- Individual product solutions
- Modular service packages (from vehicle only to full service offering)
- Solutions compliant with German or Luxembourg law
- Professional asset management
- Holistic and proactive portfolio management
- Robust risk management standards
- Transparent best-in-class processes
- Fund reporting (internal, legal and investor reporting)
