Real estate funds for asset managers

Your real estate funds –
from fund launch
to administration

You take care of your real estate, we take care of all fund services

Universal Investment is a strategic partner and fund service platform for fund promoters and asset managers. With many years of experience for real estate, the Real Estate Team successfully structures and administers real estate investments in Germany and Luxembourg.

As a fund initiator and specialist in real estate transactions and management, you concentrate on your core tasks. We take care of the fund administration.

Advantages

Structuring and administration from one source

Transparency

a review right through to the real estate’s DNA

Flexibility

asset managers can be onboarded at any time

Regulatory

knowledge of tax, corporate and investment law always up to date

Focus

division of competence for administration and value creation strategies in asset management

Real estate in numbers

33.8

billion euros gross fund assets (accumulated)

>1.800

transactions concluded

53

real estate special AIFs (according to German and Luxembourg law)

>55

onboarded national and international asset managers

As of December 2024

Global real estate competence

Universal Investment supports fund promoter and asset managers with global real estate competence in implementing investment strategies by active monitoring and reviewing of transactions on all markets.

Real Estate: global real estate expertise / distribution of assets on the world map

Source: Universal Investment

Real estate platform

Since the launch of the real estate platform in 2011, outstanding growth has been achieved with an increase in assets under administration (AuA) exceeding 33.8 billion euros. This success story reflects the high level of our client confidence in the quality of services (as of December 2024).

Real Estate: graph mile stones / track record

Source: Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH

Contact

We could manage the implementation of your real estate fund strategies. Let's talk.

New customers

Marcus Kuntz

Group Head of Sales

+49 69 71043 190

marcus.kuntz@universal-investment.com

Existing customers

Andreas Gessinger

Area Head of Relationship Management Fund Initiators

+49 69 71043 552

andreas.gessinger@universal-investment.com

Further topics

News at a glance

News

April 2025

Rethought and greatly enhanced: how ELTIFs are widening the investment spectrum for retail clients and (semi-) institutional investors

At the beginning of 2024, the revised ELTIF 2.0 framework entered into force, followed by the regulatory technical standards in October of the same year. In addition to a broad spectrum of investments in tangible assets, including a wider range of real estate opportunities, up to 45 per cent may now be held in assets that would be eligible for a UCITS fund. ELTIF 2.0 thus enables individual investment strategies to be realised with significantly greater ease and flexibility.
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News

September 2024

“Client focus is my top priority”

At the start of this year, Francesca McDonagh was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Universal Investment Group. Jochen Meyers, who will take on the role of Group Head of Relationship Management as of October 1, sat down with Francesca to discuss her first impressions of Universal Investment, her plans for the business, and how Germans and Irish can benefit from each other.
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News

September 2024

"Economic security comes at a price"

Reducing economic dependency, managing the energy transition, expanding infrastructure, promoting education as a resource, boosting defense - the sheer volume of challenges is pushing states to their limits. In numerous areas, much more private capital needs to be mobilised to tackle the tasks ahead. An interview with Prof Dr Moritz Schularick from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.
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