Another successful year for the investment market

Corporate real estate is becoming increasingly established as an asset class. Because investors are looking for new investments due to the rapid yield compression in the asset classes office or retail an attractive investment alternative and further diversify their portfolio. This can be easily understood by taking a look at the reports of the INITIATIVE UNTERNEHMENSIMOBILIEN. Whereas in the first analysis years 2011 and 2012 only around 600 million were converted into corporate real estate, the transaction volume has already doubled to more than 1.3 billion euros by 2013. The increase continued at a faster pace in the following years, with the result that investments in corporate real estate always amounted to EUR 2 billion or more. The year 2015 was particularly strong demand and achieved the previous record result of over 2.3 billion euros. As mentioned at the beginning, this development ran parallel to the overall commercial property investment market in Germany.