Investor interest in new and old forms of urban living is fundamentally unchanged. However, changed market conditions with increased construction and financing costs and ever stricter climate protection requirements are putting the brakes on investments. The rent brake (Mietpreisbremse) also continues to contribute to the tightness of the German housing market. Investors are therefore on the lookout for urban forms of housing that are not bound by the rent brake. Do student housing, serviced or micro apartments offer a way out here? >

REIUS. advised UBS Real Estate on the sale of four logistics properties in Germany and Austria. The buyer is Garbe Real Estate for its „Logistikimmobilien Fonds Plus (GLIF+)“. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price. >

REIUS. advised UBS Real Estate on the acquisition of the Fallingbostel 2 project development from bauwo Grundstücks­gesellschaft, Hanover. On a site area of approx. 39,000 sqm, bauwo has built a hall with 19,200 sqm of hall space in two sections and 2,800 sqm of mezzanine. >

REIUS. has advised the Corestate group on the sale of the “Sigma Technopark” in Augsburg in an off-market transaction. Buyer of the 113,000 sqm business park is the joint venture “Titanium” of Axa IM Alts and Sirius Real Estate. The buyer’s acqusition costs amount to approximately 80 million Euros. >

REIUS. advised Catella Residential Investment Management (CRIM) on the acquisitions of the first two properties for a newly launched institutional residential property fund of one of Germany’s largest co-operative banks. With a focus on affordable housing, the fund is to invest at least 300 million euros in German residential real estate over the next two to three years. >

REIUS. advised LIP Ludger Inholte Projektentwicklung on the sale of “Südkreuz Offices“ in Berlin to DEKA Immobilien. The deal is one the largest individual office properties transactions in the Berlin investment market in 2020. >

REIUS. advised Garbe Industrial Real Estate on the acquisition of a logistic assets in Duisburg for an institutional single mandate.The asset was sold by ASV Immobilien Duisburg by way of an asset deal. The asset comprises about 17,000 sqm leasable space and is fully leased to Seacon Logistics. >

REIUS. advised LIP Invest on the acquisition of a logistics park with 38,000 sqm of rentable space built by Bauwo in Pilsting-Großköllnbach in lower Bavaria. The transaction was off-market and the investment volume amounted to approximately 50 million Euros. >

REIUS. advised Values Real Estate on the acquisition of the first asset for its institutional Values Logistics Fund. The asset consists of two logistics buildings in Saarwellingen (Saarland) which were acquired in a sale and leaseback transaction. >

REIUS. Real Estate Partners advised the Carlyle Group, together with Milbank LLP, on the acquisition of Flender GmbH from Siemens AG. Flender is a global market leader in wind and industrial transmission technology with headquarters in Bocholt, Germany. Flender operates in over 35 countries with more than 8.600 employees. >

REIUS. Real Estate Partners advised Tishman Speyer on the acquisition of the publishing house building at Baumwall in Hamburg. The future site of Gruner + Jahr will be located in the HafenCity of Hamburg where a new office building for the publishing house is currently built. Until the relocation Gruner + Jahr has rented the current publishing house building from Tishman Speyer. >

REIUS. advised LIP Invest GmbH on the off-market acquisition of a multi-user logistics development for “LIP REAL ESTATE FUND – LOGISTICS GERMANY II” located in the Kinzigpark of Gengenbach near Offenburg. The purchase price amounts to more than 50 million Euros. >

REIUS. advised LIP Invest GmbH on the acquisition of a logistics development for FIEGE in Zülpich. The development with a size of 54,000 square meters is located in the logistics area of Cologne and will be a multi-user object catering to the healthcare sector. The total investment volume is approx. 50 million Euros. >

REIUS advised a joint venture of Angelo, Gordon, one of the world’s leading managers for alternative investments, and the Frankfurt-based aamundo real estate group on the acquisition of a logistics property in Ettlingen near Karlsruhe. >

REIUS advised HanseMerkur Grundvermögen AG on their investment in the building “W9” of the “Wissenscampus” in Stuttgart Weilimdorf as part of a forward deal. >

REIUS advised Angelo Gordon’s Net Lease Group on the acquisition of two logistics properties in Strullendorf (Franconia) and Poitiers (France). The vendor is the Kramp Group from the Netherlands who will remain the sole tenant. >