List of three real estate investors with a focus on retail parks from Germany

Retail parks are collections of several medium to large-scale specialist stores from different sectors on a shared site. Retail park properties are an interesting field for property investors. These three German investors have their focus here:

1. HAHN-Immobilien-Beteiligungs AG (Bergisch Gladbach)

Hahn-Immobilien-Beteiligungs AG is the holding company of the Hahn Group, a family-owned company focusing on long-term property investments – financed via property funds for institutional and private investors. The subsidiary Hahn Fonds und Asset Management GmbH essentially controls property management. It is responsible for acquisition, asset management, project development and property management. Retail parks with a food retailer as an anchor tenant are one of the four investment focuses of the Hahn Group. The company is involved in several dozen retail warehouse centres across Germany. At the end of 2023, the Hahn Group managed property assets of over seven billion euros.

2. FIM Immobilien Holding Alpha GmbH (Bamberg)

FIM Immobilien Holding Alpha is the parent company and central management company of the FIM Group. The owner-managed company specialises in investments in retail properties focusing on food retail. With this focus, FIM Immobilien is also involved in properties within the framework of retail parks. The concept is to purchase and optimise properties to achieve sustainable value growth and subsequent resale. The property portfolio currently comprises more than one hundred properties and projects throughout Germany. The total volume of the portfolio is in the three-digit million range.

3. GRR Real Estate Management GmbH (Nuremberg)

The GRR Group has been in existence since 2005 and is a subsidiary of Provinzial Holding, the parent company of the Provinzial Group – an insurance group affiliated with the German savings bank organisation. The company acts as a property investor and asset manager for property funds it has set up and individual mandates from institutional investors. The investment focus is on retail properties with an emphasis on local shopping centres. This also includes properties in retail parks. The GRR Group manages a property portfolio with a total value of around 1.85 billion euros and more than one million square metres of retail space.

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