RECORD HALF-YEAR WITH OVER €6 BILLION
In the last three months, the logistics investment market was able to pick up where it left off after the first quarter and set another new record in the middle of the year. With a transaction volume of almost €6.6 billion, the overall result was even twice as high as the long-term average, and the very good result from the comparable period of the previous year was also exceeded by 55%. The fact that logistics investments now form an important pillar of the entire commercial real estate investment market is underlined by their share of around 22% and their repeated second place behind office investments in the asset class ranking. Another factor that speaks for the high stability of the logistics investment market is the distribution of volume between individual and portfolio deals: Thus, package sales (53%) and individual transactions (47%) account for almost equal shares, with portfolios (€3.5 billion) achieving their second-best result and individual investments (€3.1 billion) their best. However, the lively market activity is not only evident in the volume, but also in the number of deals, with over 160 sales. Nevertheless, due to the changed interest rate environment, the circle of investors in the core segment has recently shrunk and the dynamics have slowed down somewhat as a result.