Becken, a specialist in the development, realization and long-term asset and investment management of commercial and residential properties, has signed a 20-year lease agreement with Verbraucherzentrale Nordrhein-Westfalen e.V. for the CURVE office project development. Verbraucherzentrale has leased around 6,900 square meters of the CURVE office ensemble at Helmholtzstrasse 19, which has a total rental area of around 10,800 square meters.

The Hamburg-based real estate company Becken is stepping up its focus on the corporate sector and has brought Accenture—a global leader in strategy, management consulting, digitalization, technology, outsourcing, and business transformation—on board to help plan a new office building. The shared goal of Becken and Accenture Dienstleistungen GmbH: to develop a pioneering, innovative, and sustainable new corporate headquarters in Walldorf, a town in the southern part of the Rhine-Neckar district …

The owner-managed Hamburg-based real estate and investment firm Becken, through its subsidiary BECKEN Invest, has leased the office building “Bei den Mühren 1” to the global company Regus—a subsidiary of the International Workplace Group (IWG)—under a long-term 16-year lease and as part of a so-called green lease agreement. The office building is the inaugural property of the “Solid Office Fund I” (SOF I), …

The Becken Group continues to expand its market position in the fund and residential segments in Germany. The Hamburg-based real estate and investment company has acquired a majority stake in INDUSTRIA WOHNEN, the specialist in residential real estate investments in Germany, from Degussa Bank. INDUSTRIA WOHNEN, headquartered in Frankfurt, manages a portfolio of 18,100 residential units, with assets under management in the residential sector totaling 3.9 billion euros. Approximately …

The owner-managed Hamburg real estate and investment company Becken has returned initial capital to its investors via its company BECKEN Invest for the mezzanine debt fund REPE 1. To this end, a co-financed property in Hamburg was successfully realized. The return on the first project at investor level and after fund costs is over 20 percent Internal Rate of Return (IRR) per year.