Gordon Group

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We sell and manage brand-new supermarkets in Germany.

Brand new REWE XL on the border with Belgium.

Brokered and managed by Gordon Group.

Germany's Prime Retail
Why And How International Ultra-High-Net-Worth
Investors Pour Billions in Germany's Food Retail.

Who We Are

Advisers and Executives for international

Ultra-High-Net-Worth clients in Germany.

Gordon Group is a family-led Real Estate business, established by founder and CEO, Ilya Gordon (56), an experienced executive in the fields of food and non-food retail. After getting a German Real Estate Broker License in March 2005, the company started closing successful deals with buyers of luxury homes and villas in Baden-Baden and other resorts of Black Forest, a south-western area of Germany, bordering with France and Switzerland. In 2015 Gordon Real Estate Group fully switched to providing Commercial Real Estate services, including advisory, brokerage, intermediation of bank financing, technical and administrative asset management of new food Supermarkets in Western Germany. Total value of successfully intermediated commercial property deals + bank financing: $250 million.

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What We Do

We help you acquire

We help international Ultra-High-Net-Worth investors acquire brand new, free hold Supermarkets, leased on long-term basis by the biggest German food retailers, such as Lidl, Kaufland, ALDI, REWE, EDEKA, Netto, Norma, dm, Alnatura, and others.

Credits: Regio TV Stuttgart for FORBES
We help you finance

If you need your deals with Real Estate to be financed by a top-ranked bank, we shall connect you with a Nr. 1 state-backed lender in Germany - Landesbank Baden-Württemberg or just LBBW, one of Top-100 banks in the World.

Credits: LBBW Headquarters in Stuttgart
We help you manage

Team of experienced professionals and partners, advised by Nico Bergerhoff, member of Germany's Top-100 Lawyers for the 8th year in a row, helps us manage the assets, providing legal, technical and administrative support of the highest level.

Credits: Regio TV Stuttgart for FORBES

German Food Retail in Numbers

€202,5 bn

total amount spent on food and non-alcoholic beverages in Germany's offline and online stores in 2024.
€5,5 bn

total amount spent in Germany by local and international investors on Food- and Non-Food Retail assets in 2024.
€445 bn

revenue of Top-4 German retailers: Lidl & Kaufland of Schwarz-Gruppe, REWE, ALDI, EDEKA in 32 countries in 2024.

Questions & Answers

Why Germany?

Despite threats of technical recession, caused by inflationary pressure and sinking buying mood, Germany - a country with 84 million people population and a GDP of $4,5 trillion (Nr. 3 economy in the World after USA and China and Nr. 3 exporting country after China and USA) remains European economy Nr. 1. Over 1.500 German companies are still World leaders in every possible industrial niche. By the beginning of 2025 total private wealth in Germany rose to €7,95 trillion, keeping this nation one of the strongest purchasing powers on this planet. Want to know more? Call or message us: +49 173 67 33 998.

Why Food Retail?

No matter what kind of crisis is going to come, people will have to eat, drink and fulfil their everyday needs. Biggest German food retailers continue showing fantastic stability in turbulent nowadays. Did you know that the total amount of spendings on food & drinks in Germany in 2024 nearly reached €203 billion? Only €3,9 billion of that amount was spent Online. Thanks to conservative German customers, who still prefer buying food "Offline", stationary stores in great locations of this country remain Nr. 1 tool of saving capitals for conservative investors. Want to know more? Call or message us: +49 173 67 33 998.

What (not) to invest in?

For various reasons we wouldn't recommend investing in hotels, restaurants, car dealerships, retirement homes or office buildings in Germany today. A perfectly located, brand new or completely refurbished free hold Food Supermarket - stand-alone, double asset with a shared parking space or a part of a shopping centre, rented on a long-term basis by one the famous German retailer chains, such as EDEKA, REWE, ALDI, LIDL, NETTO, DM, Rossmann remains a perfect investment for a conservative Ultra-High-Net-Worth individual or for a fund. Want to know more? Call or message us: +49 173 67 33 998.

Where (not) to invest?

Germany is a strongly decentralized country, and though its "Big 7" cities - Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf - might look very attractive as a place of an abstract retail asset to invest in, in reality each micro-location here suffers from an extremely strong competition. A conservative investor should pay serious attention to so-called B, C or even D-type towns of Germany, where a newly built Food Supermarket, rented by one of top retailers on a long-term basis often plays a strategic, almost a monopolistic role. Want to know more? Call or message us: +49 173 67 33 998.

How to finance?

After a long period of historically lowest interest rates, commercial loans have become so expensive that it makes no sense to use bank financing anymore. New reality: investors in Commercial Real Estate should bring 100% own capital. Great advantage for international buyers with no Tax Residence in Germany: they can legally call it a Shareholder Loan, with loan interest, free of local Income Tax. Such a scheme is especially attractive for those, who enjoy owning citizenship of the countries, which don't tax incomes from foreign assets. Want to know more? Call or message us: +49 173 67 33 998.

How to purchase assets?

Legal system of Germany provides the safest purchase procedure in the World both for a Buyer and for a Seller of Commercial Real Estate. Purchase Contracts closed in this country should be obligatory notarized. Various types of Due Diligence, such as legal, technical, financial and tax, as well as Location Analysis should still never be ignored, even in case of purchasing a brand new Commercial Real Estate asset. Using a notary escrow account, specially opened for a particular deal in an investor's home bank beforehand, should bring extra security. Want to know more? Call or message us: +49 173 67 33 998.

Why Gordon Group?

Gordon Group is a highly efficient Family Business with an experience of 20 years of closing deals in Germany. Over these years we have managed to establish great partnerships with leading development groups, bankers, lawyers, technical experts, tax advisers and other high class professionals. Their vast competence is an integral part of Gordon Group's successful tactics and strategies that we offer to our clients - international Ultra-High-Net-Worth individuals and their families - in the market of Commercial Real Estate of Germany. Want to know more? Call or message us: +49 173 67 33 998.

Contact us

Gordon Real Estate Group
Owner & CEO: Ilya Gordon
Kaiser-Joseph-Str. 254
79098 Freiburg
Germany

Phone: +49 761 384 28 00
Mobile: +49 173 67 33 998
Web New: gordongroup.de
Web Old: gordon-group.de
Email: info@gordon-group.de

Impressum

Legal Notice | Impressum:

Gordon Real Estate Group

Owner | Inhaber & CEO:

Ilya Gordon, M.A.

Registered Address:

Kaiser-Joseph-Str. 254

79098 Freiburg

Germany

Licence § 34c Abs. I GewO

issued on 04.03.2005 by the

City Administration of Freiburg,

Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Licence § 34c Abs. II GewO

issued on 17.01.2017 by the

City Administration of Freiburg,

Baden-Württemberg, Germany

German VAT

Ust.-Ident. Nr.:

DE232024701

Image credits:

Getty Images

Authentic Shots by Daniel Niessen

Regio TV Stuttgart Production

Unternehmensgruppe ALDI Nord

Landesbank Baden-Württemberg

EDEKA Gruppe

Gordon Group

Statistics:

Statistisches Bundesamt

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