The owner-managed Dr. Peters Group has presented a positive performance balance of its active real estate funds for its anniversary year 2025. 50 years after the company was founded, the 24 current real estate funds paid out an average of 5.6 percent to the more than 10,500 real estate investors for the calendar year 2025, according to the balance sheet audited by Cordes + Partner Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft. Four funds, including three with nursing homes and one with a shopping center, even paid out distributions of 10 percent. A total of € 13 million flowed back to investors last year, which corresponds to an increase of around 6 percent compared to the previous year.
Sustainable letting: Average remaining term of leases of 12.8 years
The 24 active real estate funds are invested in 28 properties, including eleven nursing homes, eight local amenities and five hotel properties, as well as four office and commercial properties. In addition, the Dr. Peters Group holds four hotel properties in its own portfolio. The occupancy rate reached an average of 99.4 percent last year. This means that the Dr. Peters Group’s portfolio is almost fully let. The average remaining term of the leases (WALT) at the end of 2025 was 12.8 years.
“The very high occupancy rate of our real estate portfolio shows how important active asset management is. This is especially true in times when the German commercial real estate market is characterised by rising vacancy rates and continued caution on the part of many tenants,” says Fabian Schultheis, Managing Director Real Estate at Dr. Peters. “Such market phases always offer the opportunity to focus particularly intensively on modernisation and optimisation of the portfolio and to consolidate cooperation with proven and valued partners. This was a decisive lever for us last year, which contributed to the pleasing result in the real estate sector.”
Real estate purchase and early lease extensions
Among the highlights of 2025 was the purchase of a local shopping centre in Rathenow (Havelland district, Brandenburg) for the public AIF “Immobilienportfolio Deutschland II” (IPD2), which is currently being sold. In addition, it was possible to agree on early lease extensions for the DS 121 “Bürogebäude Freiburg” and IPD2 funds: on the one hand five years with the Federal Institute for Real Estate Tasks, and on the other hand 12 years with the food retailer REWE.
The Dr. Peters Group strengthened its cooperation with the operator EMVIA Living Group by agreeing on joint investments in the real estate of three nursing home funds. In this context, the EMVIA Living Group signed follow-up leases with terms of at least 20 years for all three houses.
Of the funds that have ended, those with hotel and retail properties performed particularly well
In addition to the 24 active real estate funds, the current account also includes figures and data on the 32 other investment offers whose properties were sold between 1985 and 2018 and which have already been terminated accordingly. Together, these funds accounted for an investment volume of €279.8 million. The total returns, including final payment, amounted to an average of 148.3 percent, based on the limited partnership capital employed. At 396 percent, the DS 7 “Novotel Mannheim” hotel fund achieved the highest total return. Eleven other funds, including many hotel funds and one local supply fund in addition to a nursing home investment offer, provided investors with total returns of more than 200 percent. The strategy of the Dr. Peters Group also currently envisages a focus on local supply and hotel properties.
