6 October 2025
• Transaction volume in Germany exceeded €360 million
• Residential platform expanded to over 800 units
• Food retail portfolio scaled up to over 100,000 m²
Frankfurt, 26 March 2026 - Peakside Capital Advisors AG (“Peakside”) can look back on a successful financial year in 2025. The owner-managed fund manager and property investor has consistently driven forward the strategic expansion of its platforms and mandates in Germany.
In the living segment, Peakside has scaled its residential strategy to over 800 units, thereby laying the foundations for further growth in the ‘Manage-to-Green’ sector. The focus here is on the energy-efficient refurbishment of existing multi-family homes in Germany’s metropolitan regions, based on standardised capex measures to improve energy performance and quality of living, as well as through the use of public subsidy programmes.
In parallel, Peakside has joined forces with Stoke Park Capital to establish Food Anchor Management GmbH (FAM), a specialised platform for food-anchored local retail properties. Thomas Dänzel, former co-founder of X+bricks and long-standing Head of Retail Investment at Colliers, will play a key role in building the portfolio as CIO. The aim is to build a broadly diversified, Germany-wide portfolio with stable cash flow. The focus is on acquiring properties with development potential in order to create added value through active letting management and targeted investment measures. The seed portfolio has already grown to over 100,000 sqm.
Another milestone of the past financial year was the acquisition of the OPTIONS office property in Frankfurt. This reflects Peakside’s conviction that high-quality office properties in attractive locations represent a future-proof investment, even during challenging market phases. An equally significant achievement was the topping-out ceremony for the logistics centre in Burgbernheim, in the Nuremberg metropolitan region. Two sustainable, modern and flexibly configurable warehouses are being built here, with the aim of achieving DGNB Gold certification.
Additionally, Peakside has further developed its Prime Assets mandate and, with the acquisition of the Alte Börse in Munich, has implemented the first transaction under this strategy. The historic property in a prime city centre location marks the start of the further expansion of this long-term mandate.
In operational terms, Peakside is demonstrating its ability to execute in the current market environment: in Germany, the company achieved a total transaction volume of over €360 million in 2025, let around 30,000 sqm and acquired around 130,000 sqm.
Boris Schran, Founding Partner of Peakside, says: “Over the past year, we have consistently refined our investment strategy: alongside successful value-add investments, we have begun to acquire trophy properties in prime locations with a long-term investment horizon. In 2025, we also laid the groundwork for our future growth with the launch of the new Prime Assets mandate and the further development of our living and food retail strategies. At the same time, we have further expanded our internal resources and strengthened the team with several new recruits at various levels across our offices in Frankfurt, Munich and Hamburg.”
Frank Schäfer, partner at Peakside, adds: “We are preparing to launch our new fund iteration focused on Germany in the second half of 2026. The value-add fund will continue our proven, value-creation-oriented strategy and specifically address current market distortions – such as acquisitions arising from special situations, as well as repositioning and distress situations. At the same time, we are executing our active, hands-on asset management strategy and generating real value growth through initiatives, such as ‘Manage-to-Green’ programmes and targeted leasing and capex measures.”
Simon Lutz, partner at Peakside, adds: “On the acquisition side, we continue to actively seek out opportunities in the areas of special situations, residential property and food retail for our value-add fund. Our discretionary capital commitments and the increasing use of AI enable us to execute attractive opportunities quickly and reliably, whilst offering sellers flexible and dependable solutions. For our Prime Assets mandate, we are also reviewing properties of all types in the prime locations of Germany’s top seven cities.”
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About Peakside
Peakside Capital Advisors AG is a European investment manager. The private-equity company manages assets worth over EUR 1.7 billion on behalf of institutional investors. Peakside implements differentiated investment strategies tailored to specific investor needs, ranging from core to value-add and opportunistic investments in commercial and residential assets and has in total acquired assets worth EUR 4.7 billion. Peakside’s investment spectrum includes single properties, developments as well as portfolios, distressed debt and real estate operating companies. The firm employs a team of more than 45 professionals in its offices in Frankfurt, Zug, Warsaw, Prague, Munich and Luxembourg.
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