Commerz Real Corporate history

On 7 April 1972, hausInvest issued its first shares. In less than six months, around 1.5 million shares worth the equivalent of 36.3 million euros were placed. In the first year, the fund’s assets amounted to 53 million euros and there were 750 investors. The start of a success story that today, 52 years later, grew to 16.5 Mrd. billion euros.

As a manufacturer-independent leasing provider of the Commerzbank Group, we have been a valued partner of German SMEs for over 50 years. The company was established in Düsseldorf in 1968 and has since grown with market demands over the decades.

Commerz Real has been investing in infrastructure assets for more than 20 years focusing on the three segments of transport & mobility, grid-connected infrastructure and energy generation. In total, Commerz Real has successfully completed more than 80 transactions across all three segments. With a transaction volume of around seven billion euros, it is one of the largest German asset managers in this segment. In recent years, transactions have focused on renewable energies. Here, Commerz Real manages more than 50 solar power plants and – excluding the Klimavest portfolio – fourteen onshore and offshore wind farms. Their total rated output is over 1 gigawatt. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), this corresponds to the average output of one nuclear power plant.