Lenzen to head capital markets at Bilfinger Real Estate in Germany

Birgit Lenzen has assumed the newly created position of head of capital markets at real estate services provider Bilfinger Real Estate.

Based in the company headquarters in Frankfurt am Main, she is now responsible for the management and expansion of Bilfinger Real Estate’s investment consulting department in Germany.

Lenzen has extensive expertise in real estate investment and financing. As head of office investment for JLL in Cologne, she was responsible for development of the investment business from 2008. She had previously worked in the portfolio transaction department at JLL's Frankfurt branch.

Aydin Karaduman, executive president of the real estate division at Bilfinger: 'With Birgit Lenzen we have gained a highly experienced and optimally networked manager for the expansion of our investment consulting services in Germany who will also strengthen our international consulting network for real estate investors.'

The appointment fits into Bilfinger's strategy of establishing a global consulting network for real estate and property sourcing, finance structuring, buying and selling as well as sale-and-lease-back transactions.

Bilfinger Real Estate together with its wholly owned subsidiary, British real estate consultancy GVA, has in recent months filled a number of leading management positions in Australia, Canada and the UK.

These include the hiring of Ron Perlmutter at Bilfinger Real Estate Canada in Toronto and Nick Bourke at Bilfinger Real Estate Australia in Melbourne, both as directors of real estate directors, as well as the addition of Chris Gore as head of City investment in London at GVA.

Gore was previously director investment at JLL and has more than 20 years of experience in the London investment market as well as longstanding contacts to German and European investors and companies. As a result of its close cooperation with the global broker and consulting network GVA Worldwide, Bilfinger Real Estate also has a presence in and access to real estate markets in more than 20 countries.

With 3,000 employees and €54 bn assets under management, Bilfinger Real Estate is among the leading real estate service providers in Europe.