At €209 million, strongest start to the year since 2021
The Leipzig investment market can boast a strong quarterly result at the start of 2026. The investment volume in the first three months of the year amounted to €209 million. This means that the full-year result for 2025 (€204 million) was already exceeded at the end of March and the average of the past ten first quarters of the year was exceeded by 11%. The latest result is the best since 2021 and the fourth highest in the past decade.
In contrast to the previous year, another transaction in the three-digit million range has now been registered. Successfully supported by BNPPRE, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) has sold 89.9% of the Höfe am Brühl shopping centre to the Czech investor Investika Real Estate Fund. In addition, the closing momentum in the small and medium-sized segment increased slightly.
The framework conditions for Leipzig's investment market remain challenging. As in the other major German investment locations, the weak economic development and geopolitical uncertainties are having a dampening effect on the market overall. As a result, net prime yields have risen slightly in some places over the past 12 months. Commercial buildings are up 20 basis points to 5.00% and logistics properties are up 25 basis points to 4.70%. For premium office properties, it remains unchanged at 5.30%.