Art-Invest Real Estate is a long-term oriented investor, asset manager and project developer of real estate in good locations with value creation potential. The focus is on the metropolitan regions in Germany, Austria and Great Britain. Art-Invest Real Estate pursues a “Manage to Core” investment strategy with institutional investors, selected joint venture partners and with its own capital. The range of investments spans the entire return and risk spectrum in the office, inner-city retail, hotel, residential and data centre sectors.

The company, with its headquarters in Cologne, was founded in 2010 by the managing partners and the Zech Group. Through its own capital management company, it has already launched 18 investment funds for institutional investors such as pension schemes and foundations since 2012.

In total, Art-Invest Real Estate currently manages real estate assets of around EUR 6 billion. Art-Invest Real Estate is now one of the largest project developers of offices and hotels in Germany.

Along the real estate value chain, Art-Invest Real Estate acts as an innovation leader also through its investments: “Design Offices” as a leading provider of flexible office and corporate coworking space, “BitStone Capital” as a venture capital company, “maincubes” as a developer and operator of data centers, “wusys” as a sector-independent IT service provider, “smartengine” as a provider of technology for intelligent buildings, “i Live” as a developer and operator of micro-living and serviced apartments, and “Scopes” as a provider of tenant planning and interior design.