Highlights
Purchase & sale of real estate
Investment profile retail properties
A team of retail experts.
Our Investment Management Retail team is responsible for the purchase and sale of retail properties. The team combines in-depth expertise from the real estate industry and the retail sector. This enables us to invest with foresight and generate sustainably stable returns in the retail asset class.
Purchase criteria for retail properties
Investments across the retail universe.
We have been investing in retail real estate for more than 40 years. We focus on the entire range of property types: high-street properties in prime inner-city locations, mixed-use properties, grocery anchored retail parks, and market-dominant shopping centers. The retail asset class is a cornerstone within Union Investment's managed real estate assets. Our portfolio comprises 81 properties worldwide with a total value of around EUR 8.7 million.
We invest in the country markets of Germany, Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific. Retail properties that we acquire for the funds we manage generate sustainably stable rental income. To ensure this, we exclude properties with limited third-party usability due to an unchangeable construction type or an inappropriate age of the building. Only in exceptional cases do we acquire retail properties that are encumbered with heritable building rights or partial ownership.
The following general criteria apply to retail properties:
Our investment profile in detail
Clear criteria set the tone.
We invest worldwide in the entire retail universe. This includes shopping centers, high street and mixed-use properties, as well as grocery anchored retail parks that meet the following criteria.
Shopping centers
In line with a best-in-class approach, our focus is on market-dominant shopping centers with clear property positioning. We invest exclusively in excellent micro-locations in economically strong metropolitan areas with further growth prospects. Comparable assets have a minimum size of 50,000 sqm.
- Investment style
- Core
- Investment volume
- from EUR 100 million
- Acquisition structure
- in exceptions Joint ventures
Video insight into our investment profile and real estate portfolio
High street and mixed-use properties
The investment profile for high street and mixed-use properties includes commercial buildings in prime locations in metropolitan areas, as well as city quarters with retail, office and/or residential uses in urban locations and cities with a population of around 250,000 or more.
- Investment style
- Core, Core-Plus, in exceptions Value-Add
- Investment volume
- Single properties from EUR 20 million
- Portfolios from EUR 50 million
Grocery anchored retail parks
Our local supply strategy focuses on clearly positioned, simply structured, food-anchored local supply and specialist store centers in conurbations and metropolitan regions. Suitable properties are located in integrated locations in cities with at least 50,000 inhabitants and have a minimum size of 5,000 square meters and the largest possible share of everyday consumer goods.
- Investment style
- Core, Core-Plus, in exceptions Value-Add
- Investment volume
- Grocery-anchored real estate from EUR 15 million
- Portfolios from EUR 30 million
Latest acquisitions and sales of retail properties
Reliability is our strength.
Union Investment stands for absolute professionalism and reliability. All acquisitions and sales go through a clear and efficient process - and so have our most recent acquisitions of retail properties.
Your contact to the Investment Management Retail team
Would you like to get in touch with us regarding the sale or purchase of a retail property or retail portfolio? We have a central contact person for you and look forward to your offer.
Other investment profiles
In addition to retail properties, we invest in residential, office, hotel and logistics properties. Here you will find detailed information about our acquisition criteria per asset class.