QUEST Investment Partners
QUEST Investment Partners is a real estate project development and investment company with offices in Hamburg, Berlin, Frankfurt und Munich.
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Company

QUEST Investment Partners sets standards in the revitalisation and development of properties as well as in investment and asset management. The company, based in Hamburg, Berlin, Munich and Frankfurt am Main, consists of the three business divisions QUEST Development and QUEST Property Management, then VIVAO. The joint focus is on property management for core-plus and value-add commercial properties with potential for value appreciation in selected locations in major German cities and in the Benelux countries.

The QUEST Investment Partners division is currently responsible for around 3 billion euros in assets under management. QUEST Investment Partners is owned by managing partner Theja Geyer and the investment holding company of property entrepreneur Erck Rickmers.

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Strategy

The development of continuously lucrative real estate by a combination of the factors:
location – project ideas – capital – timing

QUEST has the access to the market, the resources and the expertise to develop real estate to the next level or from scratch. In the selection of the locations, QUEST is focussing in the field of office premises on urban ares (City and district locations) in Hamburg and Berlin as well on good central locations (prime locations) of German urban centers in the area of retail developments. Due to longterm connections and the good relationship with the tenants, new project ideas evolve even before the acquisition of real property.

Investment strategy
The aim is the creation of core real estate. Investments are only made in very good locations. There, the quality of the object is constantly improved.

The creation of values through:

  • Development of projects
  • Refurbishment and repositioning
  • Improvement of the rental and revenue situation
03.

Development

QUEST Development runs the project development business and currently has invested more than 1.6 billion euros in almost 30 projects spanning an area of over 217,000 m2. Preference is given to properties with a special flair and a unique selling point. The company offers a wide range of services, from project acquisition, due diligence and financing to planning, obtaining development rights, technical management and marketing for letting and sales.

A team of 40 experienced employees develops and manages high-quality real estate projects. The project development division also plans large properties as joint ventures with renowned institutional investors. The aim is to increase the value of properties with unique and innovative ideas and to actively participate in modern urban planning.

04.

Funds

QUEST Funds GmbH has been founded in 2019. In the fund section of the real estate company, a team of 10 people is in charge of the fund and investment business as well as the asset management.

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Property management

In 2021, QUEST Investment Partners acquired a majority stake in Albrecht Gebrüder & Co., a property manager founded in 1987 and based in Hamburg and Berlin. As a result, we are expanding further and entering a third business area in addition to project development and the fund business.

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Managing director

Theja Geyer has combined the property company QUEST Investment Partners with an investment platform for institutional investors. Before becoming self-employed, he was a partner at Art-Invest Real Estate Management. The architecture graduate also worked for IVG Development GmbH and Waterbound Real Estate, where he was responsible for project developments at Mayfair AG.

With concentrated expertise and a great passion for the refurbishment of special properties, he develops buildings with which he constructively helps to shape sustainable urban development.

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Theja Geyer

Theja Geyer is a partner and managing director of the QUEST Investment GmbH.