Hamburg-based redos Group has acquired the “Olymp” portfolio of eleven retail parks and hybrid centres. It was purchased for the special fund “Redos Einzelhandel Germany II”, which the independent retail property specialist set up for institutional investors in 2017 together with Union Investment under a third-party AIFM mandate. The portfolio comprises a total rental area of 141,000m². The seller is a fund managed by TH Real Estate. The parties agreed not to disclose the purchase price.
The “Olymp” portfolio consists of ten retail assets in western Germany and one in Berlin. The properties include the Durlach Center in Karlsruhe, Norder Tor in Norden near Emden and the Allende Center in Berlin-Kopenick. The portfolio has an occupancy rate of more than 98%. Among the main tenants are Kaufland, real, EDEKA, REWE, Penny, Rossmann, Saturn, dm-drogerie markt and expert. All retailers have secured the respective locations by concluding long-term leases early. All the properties are in excellent condition. They are located in city centres or on the outskirts of cities and can be easily accessed either by car or public transport.
“With ‘Olymp’, we have acquired one of the most attractive and best quality retail portfolios currently on the market. All the locations are well established with high footfall and stable cash flows. We have plenty of core tenants of good credit standing, which lends this investment a high level of planning security,” said Frank Eckervogt, Managing Director / Head of Acquisition at redos. “At the same time, we anticipate the potential for rental and value growth in spite of the very low vacancy rate. We intend to target and leverage this potential in close dialogue with the retailers, for example by developing cutting-edge, customer-oriented shop-floor concepts.”
“We have steadily developed this outstanding portfolio over the past eight years with strategic repositioning, and we have already generated added value for the properties. With our many years of expertise, we, for example, established the Durlach Center in Karlsruhe as the dominant shopping destination in the region and gave the location a boost by broadening the sector mix and building a specific centre brand,” added Marcus Mack, Fund Manager at TH Real Estate.
