Company history
From Allianz Grundstücks-AG, based in Germany, to Allianz Real Estate, serving the global market.
Allianz has always been pioneering in its provision of professional management services for the real estate investment sector. When Allianz Grundstücks-AG (which later became Allianz Immobilien GmbH) was founded in 1985, all the real estate work of the Allianz Group was brought together for the very first time and managed as a single entity.
With the aim of taking real estate investment to the global stage, compounded by further diversification and scope for exploiting all potential sources of investment, the founding of Allianz Real Estate as a holding structure was the logical next step on the road to success. Within this concept Allianz Immobilien GmbH took over the job of national investment and asset manager and has been trading as Allianz Real Estate Germany since the start of 2009. The company is responsible for its former focal trading area, Germany, as well as Austria, Switzerland, Eastern Europe and Scandinavia.
| Milestones in real estate management within the Allianz | |
|---|---|
| 2010 | Founding of Allianz Real Estate America |
| 2009 | Allianz Real Estate Holding is formed as strategic umbrella with Allianz Real Estate Germany as subsidiary |
| Allianz Immobilien GmbH changes its name to Allianz Real Estate Germany | |
| AGF Immobilier changes its name to Allianz Real Estate France | |
| 2008 | The subsidiary Allianz Center Management GmbH is sold to ECE |
| Allianz Real Estate GmbH is positioned as the Allianz Group's global real estate platform | |
| 2007 | Allianz Real Estate GmbH is founded as an international investment management company |
| MIPIM AWARD is won for the Europa Passage in Hamburg | |
| The Property Management division is sold to Hochtief | |
| Two real estate packages worth around 3 billion Euros are sold | |
| The subsidiary Allianz Wohneigentum GmbH is sold to DEWAG | |
| 2006 | Allianz Immobilien GmbH launches comprehensive restructuring with the aim of concentrating on asset-focused core functions of real estate management for the Allianz companies |
| Opening of the Europa Passage in Hamburg | |
| 2005 | Completion of mainBuilding on Taunusanlage in Frankfurt am Main (opposite the Alte Oper opera house) |
| 25th anniversary of the Hanse Viertel shopping centre, Hamburg | |
| 2002 | MIPIM AWARD is won for the Forum office block, Amsterdam |
| Opening of the Allianz Kai project in Frankfurt am Main | |
| 2001 | Integration of the Dresdner Bank real estate group: Takeover of property management for the DEGI Deutsche Gesellschaft für Immobilienfonds mbH |
| GCM Grundwert Center Management GmbH changes its name to Allianz CenterManagement GmbH and is integrated in Allianz Immobilien GmbH as a wholly-owned subsidiary | |
| 2000 | Name change to Allianz Immobilien GmbH |
| Founding of the Allianz Wohneigentum GmbH subsidiary to privatise the Allianz Group’s housing stock | |
| Opening of federal press conference building in the government district of Berlin (with German Federal President Johannes Rau) | |
| 1998 | Opening up of market Management services are provided for a company outside the Allianz Group for the first time ever |
| Opening of TREPTOWERS, Berlin | |
| 1997 | Integration of Vereinte Versicherungen within the Allianz Group; their properties now fall under the remit of the Group's real estate management |
| 1995 | Name change to Allianz Grundstücks-GmbH |
| First sales of real estate (move away from the buy-and-hold strategy pursued until then by institutional investors) | |
| Integration of DKV within the Allianz Group; their properties now fall under the remit of the Group's real estate management | |
| 1990 | The Allianz Group takes over responsibility for the state insurance of the former German Democratic Republic and, along with this, takes over real estate management for its properties |
| 1986 | Commencement of business |
| 1985 | Founding of Allianz Grundstücks-AG by pooling together expertise in real estate from Allianz Lebensversicherungs-AG and Allianz Versicherungs-AG |
| Consolidation of real estate under common management, with a common investment strategy and introduction of a common database system | |
| Allianz Grundstücks-AG becomes a full-service provider for all real estate services (areas of work range from acquisition and project development, rental, property management, management of centres and property administration to caretaker services) | |
| Until 1985 | Various real estate departments within Allianz insurance companies |
