Peakside Capital Advisors looks back on a successful 2025 financial year. The owner-managed fund manager and real estate investor was able to consistently drive forward the strategic expansion of its platforms and mandates in Germany.
In the Living segment, Peakside scaled its residential strategy to over 800 units, laying the foundation for further growth in the manage-to-green sector.
The focus is on the energy-efficient renovation of existing apartment buildings in Germany’s metropolitan regions, based on standardised capex measures to improve energy performance and quality of living, as well as using public funding programmes.
In parallel, Peakside has founded Food Anchor Management GmbH (FAM), a specialized platform for food-dominated local supply properties, together with Stoke Park Capital. Thomas Dänzel, former co-founder of X+bricks and long-time Head of Retail Investment at Colliers, will be involved in portfolio development as CIO. The aim is to build a broadly diversified, Germany-wide portfolio with stable cash flow. The focus is on the acquisition of properties with development potential in order to create added value through active letting management and targeted investment measures. The seed portfolio has already grown to over 100,000m².
Another milestone in the past financial year was the acquisition of the OPTIONS office property in Frankfurt. Peakside is convinced that high-quality office properties in attractive locations represent a future-proof investment even in challenging market phases. An equally important success was the topping-out ceremony for the logistics centre in Burgbernheim in the Nuremberg metropolitan region. Two sustainable, modern and flexibly configurable halls with a desired DGNB certificate in gold are being built here.
In addition, Peakside has further developed its prime assets mandate and implemented the first transaction of this strategy with the purchase of the Alte Börse in Munich. The historic property in a prime city centre location marks the start of the further expansion of this long-term mandate.
Operationally, Peakside underlines its implementation power in the market: In Germany, the company realised a total transaction volume of over EUR 360 million in 2025, let around 30,000 m² and acquired around 130,000 m².
Boris Schran, Founding Partner of Peakside, says: “In the past year, we have consistently developed our investment strategy: In addition to successful value-add investments, we have started to acquire trophy properties in absolute top locations with a long-term investment horizon. In 2025, we also provided important impetus for our future growth with the launch of the new prime assets mandate and the further development of our living and food retail strategies. At the same time, we have further expanded our internal resources and strengthened the team with several new additions at various levels in Frankfurt, Munich and Hamburg.”
Frank Schäfer, Partner at Peakside, adds: “For the second half of 2026, we are preparing to launch a new fund with a focus on Germany. The value-add fund will continue our proven, value-added-oriented strategy and specifically address current market distortions – such as acquisitions from special situations as well as repositioning and distress situations. At the same time, we are implementing our active hands-on management approach and achieving real value increases, for example through manage-to-green programs or targeted operational leasing and capex measures.”
Simon Lutz, Partner at Peakside, adds: “On the acquisition side, we continue to specifically seek opportunities in the areas of Special Situations, Living and Food Retail for our value-add fund. Our discretionary capital commitments and the increasing use of AI enable us to implement attractive opportunities quickly and reliably while offering sellers flexible and reliable solutions. For our Prime Assets mandate, we also examine properties of all types of use in the best locations of Germany’s top 7 cities.”
