Clients

Union Investment Real Estate AG

Union Investment Real Estate AG is a leading international investment management company specialising in open-ended real estate funds for private and institutional investors. Assets under management amount to EUR 13.8 billion. The portfolios of Union Investment’s open-ended real estate funds comprise some 150 properties and projects in Germany, Europe, the Americas and Asia.

Within the commercial real estate sector, the Hamburg-based company is active as an institutional investor, developer and landlord. Within the last two years, the company has expanded into thirteen new markets, including Hungary, the Czech Republic, Mexico, Chile, South Korea and Japan. Active in the property investment business for over 40 years, Union Investment Real Estate now operates in 21 countries around the world, with approximately 50% of property assets located in countries outside the domestic market.

dcarbon8 held a Sustainability Workshop for their investment managers at the Union Investment Group’s headquarters in Hamburg in 2007. This helped them to identify future opportunities in this arena and to educate their employees on sustainability issues.