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Unique experience locations with potential

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Shopping centers as an investment

We create places of experience with investment value

Would you like to invest in shopping centers or further develop your retail property and leverage previously hidden potential? Then you've come to the right place! As an operator and investor, we have been creating places of experience with growth potential for 60 years.

2.800

Lease contracts concluded in 2024

31

billion €

Assets under Management

400

million €

total project construction volume in 2023

3.000

Retail real estate experts

in the company

Stability

Professionally managed malls offer stable long-term return opportunities as investment properties.

Cashflow

We create permanently attractive places of experience with a sustainable cash flow.

Safety

Securing values, increasing values: We steer the properties entrusted to us into a secure future.

Why shopping centers?

3 questions for Alexander Otto, CEO ECE Group and investor
 

What makes shopping centers interesting for investors?
We are currently operating at a historically low valuation level. This opens up great opportunities. This is because shopping centers offer extremely well diversified cash flows and therefore stable distribution yields due to their diverse tenant and sector structure.

What appreciation potential does shopping center real estate offer?
Compared to other property classes, shopping centers offer more opportunities for active value appreciation. For example, through the tenant mix, the cost structures or the flexibility within the property, which makes it possible to expand or reduce space as needed.

How do shopping centers perform in times of crisis?
In the times of crisis in recent years, shopping centers have once again proven to be very resilient. As an asset class, they offer triple protection against inflation - firstly through the property, i.e. the asset value of the land. Secondly, via the indexed tenancy agreements and thirdly, via the turnover rents. This means that the assets remain stable in value even in the event of high inflation.

Operative Exzellenz

Center as an investment

High level of on-site expertise

Our Center and Leasing Managers know the environment of the properties entrusted to them very well and have excellent local networks.

Es sind eine Frau und ein Mann im Center abgebildet, die über etwas diskutieren.

Excellent property & facility management

Through long-term planning and intelligent use of resources, we keep ancillary costs under control and manage lease contracts securely.

Comprehensive reporting

We have adapted our systems and processes to your requirements and provide you with highly digital and comprehensive reports.

Strong asset and project management

Our asset and project management is one of our top services, as it ensures that all strategic development topics are implemented efficiently and on time.

Excellent sustainability

The ECE ESG product catalog

As investors' ESG strategies are very different, ECE does not offer a one-size-fits-all solution, but provides support with various ESG products. Together with customers, the experts develop a customized strategy with tailored measures for the complex asset class of retail real estate. Always in view: the political requirements on the path to climate neutrality.

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Customized climate neutrality
Creation of an energy renovation roadmap for shopping centers on behalf of the owners to gradually achieve climate neutrality.

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Well-founded ESG strategy for the property
Valuation of 50 key data points of the property and the entire portfolio with regard to key ESG KPIs and development of an ESG strategy based on this.

Funding management


Management of an energy-efficient refurbishment
including analysis of the potential for subsidies and application for subsidies for the energy-efficient refurbishment of a retail property.

Taxonomy check


Classification according to the EU taxonomy
Systematic valuation of the center with regard to the classification according to the EU taxonomy, according to which financial products and investments may be declared as environmentally sustainable.

Climate risk analysis


Creation of an overview of the physical impacts of climate change on a center with recommendations for risk mitigation.

Find out more about our ESG measures

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Symbol einer Weltkugel mit Längen- und Breitengraden

200 marketplaces in Europe

Stilisiertes Gebäude mit vertikalen Säulen und einer bogenförmigen Dachstruktur

160 marketplaces in Germany

Symbol eins Marktstands mit gestreiftem Dach und einer stehenden Person daneben

approx. 20,000 tenants

Symbol einer Quadratmeterfläche, daneben befindet sich ein messender Pfeil

7 million m² of sales space

Damenschuh Symbol und darüber befindet sich ein Tshirt mit einem Sternenmotiv

200 leasing experts

Symbol eines Marktstands

820,000 m² of leased area in 2024

Visit our center portfolio

value add

We find the right solution for every center

We don't just manage your property - we develop it further. We use our expertise to help you leverage hidden potential. From realigning leasing and targeted rebranding to refurbishments - we work with you to find the right solution for your shopping center.

Food Garden Visualisierung 1

Gastro hotspot with the best prospects

Main-Taunus-Center

Food garden instead of department store: The Main-Taunus-Zentrum in Sulzbach near Frankfurt am Main, one of the largest and highest-turnover shopping centers in Germany, is getting another attraction in place of the demolished Karstadt building. With the new Food-Garden, a new lively and urban center with a high-quality, varied Gastronomy and food offer is being created in the middle of the open-air center designed above on around 7,000 m².

Shopping & Entertainment

Rosengardcentret Denmark

Whether it's laser tag, go-karting or an obstacle course - the first Flip Out in Europe outside the UK opened in October 2023 at Rosengårdcentret in Odense, Denmark. The British company's special indoor adventure park offers pure action and adventure with its numerous attractions, making it a perfect addition to the existing business sectors and tenant mix. For its further expansion in Europe, Flip Out is in close contact with ECE - especially for the German market.

Shopping & Entertainment

Non-Retail in the Zwickau-Arkaden

Creating new reasons to visit, tapping into new target groups and thus achieving a win-win situation for investors, new and existing tenants alike - this is the goal ECE is pursuing with the establishment of location-appropriate non-retail offers. In the Zwickau-Arkaden, ECE has realized serviced apartments with limehome, the leading tender of digitalized design apartments in Europe, in former office space on the second and third floors of an adjacent building.

Subsequent occupancy of large retail spaces

Subsequent occupancy of Galeria Karstadt in the Rathaus-Center Dessau

The former Karstadt space in the Rathaus-Center Dessau has new tenants: MediaMarkt and the successful Swedish concept Rusta. With the successful re-letting of almost 6,000 m², the interdisciplinary team of the ECE Group, consisting of the center team on site, colleagues from Asset Management and Leasing as well as experts from Architecture & Construction, has reached a significant milestone in the revitalization of the former Karstadt space.

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