950
Assets Under Management (Mil EUR)
1300
Transaction volume (Mil EUR)
150
Volume of complex full modernizations (Mil EUR)
5000
Renovated Units
Asset Manager for Real Estate in Germany
Deutsche Asset One is an established, nationally positioned Investment and Asset Manager, specializing in the Residential Real Estate asset class. Deutsche Asset One was established by Dupuis Asset Management (founded 1998). For over 15 years, a proven performance record in the building and managing of Residential Real Estate portfolios for distinguished Institutional Clients and European Family Offices has been demonstrated. As an independent, management–owned Investment Boutique, we offer no individual products and are thus free from any conflicts of interest. Through a high vertical, we provide deep added value in Residential Real Estate, including sophisticated processes and IT.
Our Strength
Independent & Owner-Managed
Deutsche Asset One is an independent, owner-managed investment management company in the mould of a “Real Estate Investment & Asset Manager” offering its clients comprehensive services for all their real estate requirements in the style of an “investment boutique”.
Our Services
Investment Management
Strategy
- Develop investment strategy and execute investment criteria
- Define portfolio property acquisition profile
Product
- Deal flow, preliminary review of investment opportunities, research and purchase calculations
- Managing the purchase process and relevant parties (banks, external due diligence, etc)
Transaction Process
- Committee and decision papers
- Contract negotiation and contract execution
Asset Management
As a Residential Real Estate Asset Manager, we offer core competency investment, asset, and corporate management integrated with long-standing personal experience.
In Asset Management, this includes:
- Business planning, budgeting, and controlling
- Reporting with detailed processing and analysis
- Research interpretation of market data with sourcing, preparation, and analysis
- Comprehensive data and document management of available historical and transaction data
- Selection of project partners, including fully integrated property management
- Intensive property and tenant supervision as well as highly involved vacancy letting
- Commercial and technical project management
- Ongoing and consistent cash-flow optimization of income and expenditures
Corporate Management / Financial Services
Our investment and asset management mandates are reinforced through professional services in the areas “Corporate Management” and “Financial Services”. The following range of offerings are available in accordance with the needs of the client:
Corporate Management
- Domiciliation of special purpose entities
- Support with corporate structuring
- Hiring of management teams
- Organization of corporate documentation and decision making processes
- Involvement and coordination of external providers such as law and tax experts
Financial Services
- Accounting and bookkeeping services for individual investments and special purpose vehicles
- Prepartion of annual financial statements, either in-house or through delivery to external partners
- Support of auditing processes
- Delivery of financial reports
- Deleivery of raw and financial data in accordance with agreed upon formatting and interfaces
- Tax compliance in accordance with real estate law provided through in-house or external tax professionals
Risk Management/Compliance
Both value drivers and risk drivers need to be identified early on and consequential effects have to be modeled in each case. However, this is not in itself sufficient. It must also be ensured that a system of rules is in place in order to mitigate and/or prevent such risks.
- IT-supported risk analysis
- Proven early warning system
- SLA reporting to service providers
- Independent risk reporting
- Company-wide compliance rules
Management Team
More than 20 years of experience in the real estate industry
Most recently managing director of Gagfah Property Management GmbH, previously Bereichsvorstand GSW Immobilien AG
Responsible for and managed real estate transactions with a volume exceeding EUR 1 billion
Focus: Asset and property management, research
Thilo von Stechow
Managing Partner
More than 20 years of experience in the real estate industry
Managing director with DUPUIS for more than 10 years
Led Investment and Asset Management for various national and internationl mandates with a volume of approximately EUR 800 million
Focus: Investment, asset, and project management, acquisitions, sales, due diligence, and key account management
Oliver Lenhardt
Managing Partner
More than 25 years of experience with real estate investments
Independent since 1992
Responsible for and managed transactions with a volume exceeding EUR 1 billion
Focus: Investment and portfolio management in and for real estate, including real estate and management companies, development and financing of investment strategies, business development, private placement and investor relations
Frank Dupuis
Managing Partner
Our Leadership
Experience & Responsibility
Through managing founding partners Frank Dupuis, Oliver Lenhardt and Thilo von Stechow, Deutsche Asset One forms a dedicated platform for the management of residential property in Germany, representing all necessary competencies of owner representation for residential properties.
Our Clients
Institutional Investors
Co-develop investment strategies for the local market, source direct investment and optimize assets / portfolios
Operational asset management platform for regulated and non-regulated funds
Provide tailor-made management functions for investment companies
Private Investors (HNWIs and family offices)
Owner representation, strategic and allocation advice
Owner representation of real estate portfolios
Sourcing, initiating and management of club deals
Private Equity Funds
Domiciliation and sub-advisory mandates for private equity funds not domiciled in Germany
Our Values
Entrepreneurial Initiative
Act as if it were your money. Identify options which others have overlooked. Be courageous and take responsibility.
Teamwork
Work as part of a team to achieve goals together, and communicate internally.
Responsibility
Take responsibility not just for your decisions, but for your actions as well, and remember that you represent the company and the investors.
Integrity
Adhere to moral principles.
Expertise
Demonstrate utmost expertise in every situation.
Focus
Work hard and show determination in every project.
Best Practice
Constantly improve your performance and adhere to the best practice standards in the real estate industry.
Social Responsibility
We are conscious of the fact that our responsibility extends beyond the financial sphere.
Sustainability
Our actions are shaped by sustainability, fairness and social consciousness.
Corporate Governance
We act transparently and seek to avoid conflicts of interest in advance, conditioned by our top-to-bottom approach and strict observance of international good corporate governance standards.
Best Practice
Each member of our management team is personally responsible for adhering to ethical principles and implementing best practice standards as essential components of our corporate philosophy.
With its corporate social responsibility program, Deutsche Asset One demonstrates its awareness of the fact that its responsibility extends beyond the financial sphere. In light of its corporate purpose, our firm feels a particular sense of responsibility for society, changes in sociocultural structures and the ecological sustainability of real estate in Germany.
In order to recognize the importance of this social and ecological responsibility, and in line with the firm’s increasing awareness for sustainability, Deutsche Asset One is currently working closely with the Institute for Corporate Responsibility Management (ICRM) of Steinbeis University Berlin as part of a public project of the Federal Ministry for Labor and Social Affairs and the European Social Fund (ESF).
The goal is to implement solid and enduring corporate social responsibility measures of the firm’s operations.
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