- Strengthening the newly established third-party investment management business
- Focus on institutional investors from Germany, Austria and Switzerland
- Elsner has more than 20 years of experience in the financial and real estate business
UNIQA Real Estate Management GmbH (UNIQA Real Estate) is strengthening its institutional sales capabilities as part of the opening of its investment platform to third-party investors. As Head of Sales Real Estate DACH, Mike Elsner will be responsible for expanding and managing relationships with institutional investors in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. He will also contribute to the implementation of separate account mandates and the further development of UNIQA Real Estate’s investment offering.
“Opening our investment platform to third-party investors marked an important step in the further development of our business. Experienced and well-connected institutional sales capabilities are essential to building long-term partnerships with professional investors. With Mike Elsner, we are gaining a well recognised expert in institutional real estate investment who has extensive knowledge of the market and the requirements of professional investors,” says Thomas Erdmann, Managing Director of UNIQA Real Estate.
In September 2026, UNIQA Real Estate announced that it would open its real estate investment and management platform, previously used exclusively for the UNIQA Group, to third-party investors. In addition to fund vehicles, the platform will offer separate accounts and club deal structures. With the UQA Real Estate Fund, the company has already launched its first dedicated investment product for external institutional investors. The fund invests in Core and Core Plus office properties with a focus on Austria, Poland and the Czech Republic and is targeting a total fund volume of EUR 600 million.
“UNIQA Real Estate combines decades of real estate experience with a strong presence and deep market expertise in Austria and Central and Eastern Europe. In my view, this is an excellent time to make this expertise available to third-party investors. As an insurance group, UNIQA also has a deep understanding of the long-term investment objectives and requirements of pension funds and other retirement institutions. I look forward to working with the team to build the institutional business across the DACH region, support both existing and new investors and further develop the investment offering,” says Mike Elsner, Head of Sales Real Estate DACH at UNIQA Real Estate.
Elsner has more than 20 years of experience in the financial and real estate business and has specialised in advising and managing relationships with institutional investors for many years. Before joining UNIQA Real Estate, he worked in capital management at HIH Invest from 2020, most recently as Director Capital Management and authorised signatory. Prior to that, he spent almost eight years at Deka Immobilien as Sales Director, where he was responsible for institutional client relationships.
About UNIQA Real EstateUNIQA Real Estate Management GmbH, headquartered in Vienna, is the real estate investment and management platform of UNIQA Group. Founded in 1976, the company has 50 years of experience in real estate management. UNIQA Real Estate manages properties and develops tailored strategies for individual assets and portfolios. Through active asset and portfolio management, the company covers the full life cycle of real estate investments.
The real estate portfolio under management comprises around 200 properties with approximately one million square metres of lettable space. The portfolio focuses on the office, residential, retail and hotel sectors and, geographically, primarily on Vienna and the core CEE markets of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland.
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