Our clients

“In a world of ever shortening innovation cycles, it is wise to concentrate on your proven strengths. We achieve this with our consequent positioning as a real estate asset and investment manager. We would like to continue the trend of the last few years with an average growth of 15% and continue to develop our investment strategy via a consistent approach. Our ambitious growth has also required support from strategic partners in order to pursue investment opportunities with good prospects for the future. WealthCap and IPH have founded a mutual center of competence for German retail properties. We especially appreciate the impartiality of IPH’s advice as we have no interest in entering into a co-operation which could result in cross-purposes. We also deliberately selected a partner which can deliver all-round strategic expertise.”

“In its first 16 years of operation, SIGNA has been successful in becoming a truly European company with real estate assets worth over €6 billion and a turnover volume of retail shareholdings of over €3 billion. Their wide service spectrum makes BBE and IPH reliable partners for SIGNA: on the one hand BBE understands and advises on the retail sector with offices all across Germany, which guarantees the required proximity to the markets. At the same time BBE/IPH are also in the position to transfer this knowledge and understanding to the viewpoint of the property investor and developer. This market-based “transformation” offers us the opportunity to achieve a precise verification of our own assumptions and concepts. For SIGNA, all this makes BBE/IPH a credible super-regional partner for analysis and advice relating to the inner urban retail segment.”

“The Versicherungskammer Bayern is the largest public sector insurance company in Germany with current annual insurance premiums in the order of €7 billion and around €43 billion worth of assets under management. With their precise assessment of the market, location and – ever more importantly – also the operational concepts, BBE and IPH support us mainly in our decision-making processes and the assessment of the sustainability of our retail investments. We have already benefited many times from the professional know-how of both companies in our long business relationship. We appreciate the quick, reliable and clear co-operation and the approach adopted when providing us with advice.”

“The Handelsverband Deutschland (HDE) is the leading trade association for the German retail sector with a membership of around 100,000 companies in all segments, locations and size categories. The teams at BBE Handelsberatung and IPH Handelsimmobilien have already successfully supported many of our members in strategic, location and real estate consultancy with market research and in-house training. Even we at the association have benefited from the retail experts’ many years of know-how. We have also co-operated to run seminars together with the individual state associations and co-published reports. The BBE and IPH advisors are also regularly involved as lecturers and panel and advisory board members at many of our conferences.”

“The REWE Group co-operative is one of the leading retail and tourism companies in both Germany and Europe and operates 15,500 stores. We have been successfully working together with BBE Handelsberatung/IPH Handelsimmobilien for over 20 years now. Their retail experts have already supported us successfully in many different areas, from market analyses to feasibility studies and the leasing of retail space in IPH projects. What we value about BBE/IPH is the consistent focus on both operational concepts and real estate requirements. We can always rely on the experts’ views.”

“dm-drogerie markt has worked successfully together with IPH Handelsimmobilien for almost 20 years now. We appreciate IPH as partner for the development of suitable locations and properties for new dm stores in order to get closer to our customers. The personal contact is just as important as the professional approach and we look forward to working together over the coming years.”

“The Spanish fashion label Desigual operates over 550 stores in 109 countries, including 72 in Germany. The co-operation with IPH Handelsimmobilien, for example on the opening of our store in Braunschweig, has always been marked by strategic thinking and action from all involved. For us it is critical that individual activities are not made overcomplicated but bring us to the best possible outcome. This expectation was fulfilled in every respect and we very much appreciate the wide range of services offered by the company’s retail experts. We look forward to a long-standing business relationship.”

“Interdisciplinary, holistic and always thinking one step ahead of the curve – this is the way we design not only the travel experience but also the shopping experience at Munich Airport. When we were realigning our retail strategy, the BBE group with IPH Handelsimmobilien and elaboratum turned out to be our ideal partners. The shared strategy workshops benefited from the whole range of retail, location and real estate expertise of the entire BBE group, which was real added-value for us. Our airport is a complex retail landscape, which must not only be attractive but must integrate as seamlessly as possible into our passengers’ travel plans. This is exactly what we achieved in our co-operation with BBE/IPH.”

“Demos Wohnbau GmbH has been a residential developer in and around Munich for over 50 years. The initial contact with IPH as retail property experts involved the proposed sale of a supermarket unit in a large newly-developed residential zone. As a residential developer, we were unsure of the achievable sale price for the store area. IPH quickly came up with a rental price estimate which was confirmed by the pricing of the initial rental offers. The potential sale price was also estimated by IPH on the basis of gross rent multipliers recently achieved on the market. This was significantly in excess of the original price calculated by DEMOS and proved achievable in the market. The pleasant collaboration and uncomplicated use of IPH’s extensive network and profound market knowledge generated a significantly higher sale price than would have been possible without the relevant advice in such a short time frame. More recently DEMOS has commenced the planning for a retail development within the area of another local development plan. We have already consulted with IPH with regard to conceptual issues. This has been another total success because IPH knows the requirements of prospective tenants so well.”

“We have a staff of around 1,900 and over 50 offices in Germany and neighbouring countries and deliver, construct, refurbish and dispose of materials for clients in the infrastructure, real estate and environment sectors. In the project management segment, we create high-yielding solutions for investors and occupiers based on our extraordinary ideas, carefully selected locations and attractive architecture. We have a very long, trusting and successful co-operation with IPH Handelsimmobilien GmbH. In the case of many of our projects, we engage the retail experts across the entire corporate network from the very beginning. We can always rely on IPH’s expert opinion and competent retail know-how, from the valuation of sites for purchase, the preparation of project development concepts, information for market analyses and rental price estimates and managing investor bid processes.”

“Holzer GmbH & Co. KG has been a successful family-operated business for over 140 years. The company is rooted in the franchised food wholesaling sector. We invest in properties and are involved in the planning, management, development and operation of real estate. For over 20 years we have relied on the expertise of BBE and IPH in the further development of our retail properties, including retail warehouses, hypermarkets, furniture stores and shopping centres. In addition to the breath and depth of services, we particularly appreciate the level of quality, commitment and results-orientated processing required for our projects. BBE and IPH are highly capable and valued partners, from market and location analyses and feasibility studies to developing the sector mix, advising on approval processes and successful letting.”

“Always well-informed and very practice-orientated: attributes I always associate with the service and professionals at IPH Handelsimmobilien. aurelis is a project and property developer with a focus on the asset management and development of properties across the whole of Germany. Our development concept competitions relating to urban projects in Munich were very well received thanks to the retail expertise of IPH. In particular the well-founded knowledge of the operational processes in the retail sector, the grasp of the Munich retail market and the associated challenges have made a great impression on me and my team.”

“CA Immo is one of the largest property companies in Europe with assets worth around €5 billion, whose core competence is in the management of existing properties and project developments. The services offered by IPH Handelsimmobilien are just right for us. They really helped to progress matters in the case of some of our projects in Munich. Above all we appreciate the special combination of retail knowledge, grasp of the critical issues relating to the building permit process and the personal contact to the decision-makers in the retail segment. IPH’s involvement has spared us many problems and has helped us to achieve sustainable successes. We have worked together in the successful marketing of the suggested use concepts.”

“BMO Real Estate Partners (previously F&C REIT Asset Management GmbH & Co. KG) is one of the leading national property managers and fund initiators with a focus on retail and office properties. We currently manage a portfolio of over 300 properties with a value of around €1.8 billion, principally in medium-sized and major cities across the whole of Germany. For over 7 years, IPH Handelsimmobilien has managed our shopping center in Freiburg. The retail experts make a great impression with their high degree of acceptance by tenants and their understanding of the positioning of a retail property and achieving the right communication mix. We made the right decision.”

“The Mittelstandsverbund – ZGV is the political umbrella organisation for a co-operative of small to medium-sized companies from the retail, trade and services and production industry segments in Germany and Europe and has a membership of over 320 groups of companies. Our experience has been as follows: only a few consultancies have such a range of knowledge and know-how and can look back on such a long and impressive history as the BBE/IPH group. In the many years of close and trusting co-operation we have always been impressed with the precision of the analyses, the rigour of the project management and the brilliance of the solutions. My experience is that the BBE team is not just highly accomplished from a professional point of view but always personable and congenial!”

“TÜV SÜD ImmoWert values retail properties in accordance with German and international standards. With eight offices and a staff of over 40 valuers, we are one of the largest independent real estate valuation companies in Germany. We co-operate closely with BBE and IPH, which help us to ensure that our valuations always reflect the most up-to-date situation in the fast-evolving retail segment. The profound knowledge of the recognised experts at BBE and IPH makes them the foremost specialists when it comes to retail locations, concepts and operational types. We are always able to rely on our partner’s market knowledge across the whole of Germany. Our co-operation is based on the quick and transparent delivery of the kind of location and property-related data and analyses we require for our valuations.”