Infrastructure

The importance of the infrastructure asset class is increasing continuously: transportation, energy and communication projects as well as social infrastructure properties are of great social importance and have a sustained need for capital.

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Montano Real Estate acquires University of Applied Sciences in Bremen for a new individual mandate

Montano Real Estate has acquired a university in Bremen on a long-term lease as the first investment for a new individual mandate. The property offers stable and predictable income due to the public user.

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Introduction of grid charges for large-scale battery storage systems – Which skills are crucial in a “restructured market”?

On 16 January 2026, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) presented its guidelines for future storage network charges. Until now, grid-connected battery storage systems built up to August 4, 2029 were exempt from grid charges for 20 years - this could now change.

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PwC projects $127B Moon economy; nuclear power and mobility emerge as key challenges

As NASA revises Artemis and PwC outlines $127 billion revenue by 2050 for the Moon’s economy, experts warn that alternative energy infrastructure, not just transportation, will determine whether lunar surface activities will survive long-term.

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Economic Development Act is having an effect: One in three respondents adapts strategy

According to a flash survey by INTREAL and Wüest Partner, a third of the investors and asset managers surveyed are adapting their strategy due to the new Economic Development Act. Photovoltaics and battery storage systems are particularly popular as investment fields.

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Webinar: Hungry Like the Wolf: Exploring the rapid growth and energy demand of data centres

With AI adoption accelerating and digitalisation surging, our recent webinar unpacked the rise of data centres, their electricity demand, and how we believe clean energy and grid supporting technologies can help provide solutions.

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CBRE and HAMBURG TEAM publish new report: “Social Infrastructure – An Investment in the Future”

CBRE and HAMBURG TEAM have published a new report on social infrastructure, which describes current developments and investment opportunities. Experts emphasize the importance of educational and health facilities for society as well as the increasing investor interest.

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Data centers will account for around five percent of commercial transaction volume in 2025

In 2025, data centers will have accounted for around five percent of the total transaction volume on the German real estate market. Most transactions took place in the Frankfurt and Berlin area, where the prices for land have risen significantly.

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Hauck Aufhäuser Lampe REIM acquires medical and health centre in Landshut

Hauck Aufhäuser Lampe REIM has acquired an outpatient medical and health centre in Landshut for its special real estate fund. The centre will be fully let and will offer various services from the health sector.

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CapMan Real Estate acquires police headquarters in Kristiansand

CapMan Social Real Estate Fund has acquired the police headquarters in Kristiansand. The building covers 17,000 square meters and is located in the Quadrum district, Kristiansand. The fund invests in sustainable real estate in the Nordic countries.

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Podcast: Private markets – Carving a path

What do the next 12 months have in store for private markets? That’s the question our panel aims to answer on this week’s podcast.

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The convergence of digital and clean power infrastructure

Digital and clean power infrastructure are both expanding rapidly, driven by artificial intelligence (AI) adoption, cloud computing, and electrification. Our recent research paper explains why we believe these trends can create structural growth opportunities for investors and ...

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Hydropower. The hidden reserve of the energy transition.

A Classification Between Climate Data, Market Mechanics and Operational Reality

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Bavaria’s first AI factory goes into operation in Tucherpark

One of the first so-called AI factories in Germany and the first in Bavaria has gone into operation in Munich's Tucherpark. The operator is Polarise. The Tucherpark is a joint project of Commerz Real and Hines.

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Economic Development Act: Real estate funds are becoming drivers of the energy transition

The Economic Development Act allows real estate funds to invest up to 15 percent of their assets in renewable energies. This opens up new opportunities for institutional investors to become more active on the path to the energy transition.

Source: Albrecht Voss (Justizzentrum Erfurt)
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KGAL acquires justice centre and wind farm for new Debeka fund

KGAL Investment Management GmbH & Co. KG is investing in the justice centre in Erfurt and in a wind farm in Schleswig-Holstein for Debeka's recently launched real asset portfolio.

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Side letters as a place of institutional risk responsibility

Fund contracts are becoming more and more complex. At the same time, central questions of risk and responsibility are shifting: side letters have become the place where institutional investors try to anchor responsibility where it can no longer be clearly regulated in the contract.

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Infrastructure Investments – Regulatory Hurdles, Real Opportunities

Christoph Kraiker, CEO of Hauck & Aufhäuser Fund Services, Dr. Dirk Krupper, Managing Director of Helaba Invest, as well as Martin Hüwel and Dr. Thomas Gohrke, partners of Luther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft, discuss how regulatory requirements on the investor side, fund structures and government framework conditions can be better interlinked.

Survey

Real asset investments will remain key building blocks in private banking in 2026

Survey by Private Banking Magazin, RUECKERCONSULT GmbH and Scope Fund Analysis GmbH in cooperation with Quadoro Investment GmbH (Quadoro) and EB – Sustainable Investment Management GmbH (EB-SIM)

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Commerz Real optimises technological basis: IT safes increase security, stability, efficiency and performance

Commerz Real relies on colocation IT safes to increase the security and efficiency of its IT infrastructure. These mini data centers will remain in Commerz Real's office space in Wiesbaden and Düsseldorf, which guarantees physical access.

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Survey: Real asset investments will remain an important pillar in bank sales in 2026

Private bankers will continue to focus on tangible assets in 2026, with strong interest in residential and logistics real estate as well as energy and transport infrastructure. A survey by RUECKERCONSULT in cooperation with partners shows stable demand and constant placement volumes in the private markets sector.

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Negative power prices – a European phenomenon

Last year, we hosted a webinar in partnership with NTR exploring the phenomenon of negative power prices in Europe. Here, we recap the key findings of that discussion.

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Infrastructure Fund: Charging infrastructure for e-mobility

In an interview with Dr. Andreas Peppel, Tobias Moroni classifies charging infrastructure from an investor's point of view – between structural tailwind and operational complexity.

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From Alternative to Essential – The Change in Private Markets

Private markets have changed noticeably in recent years. This is due to structural trends such as demographic change, digitalisation and decarbonisation.

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KGAL realises two aircraft transactions for APF5 funds

KGAL has completed two transactions for the APF 5 aircraft portfolio through its subsidiary GOAL, the long-standing joint venture between KGAL and Deutsche Lufthansa AG. On the one hand, it invested in a leasing deal for a newly delivered Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft.

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