"At Becken, we believe in the world of tomorrow! To help shape tomorrow, we always look beyond our own horizons, take inspiration and new perspectives as our impetus, and are always aware of our
responsibility."
Dieter Becken
Managing Partner
A
Strong roof
Basin Group
The owner-managed Hamburg-based real estate and investment company Becken has been active in Germany's leading metropolitan regions since 1978. Becken combines the experience of over 40 years of dynamic development with the solidity and financial strength of a family business. With its Development, Asset Management and Investment Management divisions, Becken pursues an integrated business model and successfully combines competencies at all stages of the investment process. The company's entrepreneurial aspiration is to master challenges such as the development and realization, sales, investment-ready structuring and management of real estate with high quality standards.
Within the Becken Group, HASPA HanseGrund GmbH stands for stability and continuity in property management. It offers comprehensive tenant support and handles lease management as well as administrative tasks such as property accounting. Furthermore, the Becken Group ensures the ongoing operation and management of the property and much more. INDUSTRIA, a significant new addition to the Becken Group, is a specialist for investments in residential real estate. Operating from the company's headquarters in Frankfurt am Main and with the experience of more than 65 years of activity in the real estate market, INDUSTRIA opens up investments in apartments in economically strong locations throughout Germany to private and institutional investors. With its expertise, INDUSTRIA secures long-term returns for its customers and also offers a comprehensive range of services for all aspects of real estate investment.
board of directors
of the becken group
Sustainable corporate structure
To ensure future viability, a Board of Directors was installed in the Becken Group in April 2019. The Board of Directors is an advisory, control and decision-making body and currently consists of four persons. The board supervises and advises the management of Becken Holding and the subordinate Group companies. The Board of Directors acts according to uniform guidelines throughout the Group.
To ensure cross-generational family influence, Dieter Becken and his daughter Dr. Nadine Becken, Managing Partner of Capella Vermögensverwaltung, hold two of the four seats on the Board. With Dr. Rainer Stockmann, founding partner of the law firm GSK STOCKMANN, and Klaus Kuder, managing partner of Kuder Familypartner GmbH, two external experts from the fields of real estate law and asset strategy consulting for family offices contribute their expertise. For many years, Mr. Kuder was responsible for the family office of Deutsche Bank as a member of the board of directors. In addition to decisions on the purchase and sale of real estate, the Board of Directors focuses on important financial decisions for the Becken Group as well as strategic issues relating to the Group's business policy. Rules of procedure for the Board of Directors as well as uniformly defined purchase templates within the framework of real estate project development have been adopted in order to further standardize the operating activities of the corporate group and to systematically manage risks.
Left: Klaus Kuder, Center Left: Dieter Becken, center right: Dr. Nadine Becken, right: Dr. Rainer Stockmann
Our Management
Dr. Nadine Becken
Deputy Chairwoman of the Board of Directors Becken
Managing Partner of Capella Vermögensverwaltung
Klaus Kuder
Member of the Board of Directors Basin
Managing Partner of Kuder Familypartner GmbH
Dr. Rainer Stockmann
Member of the Board of Directors Basin
Founding partner of the law firm GSK STOCKMANN
Prof. Dr. Michael Becken
Managing Director BECKEN Invest GmbH,
Becken Asset Management GmbH
1978-2002
2004
2006/2007
real estate portfolio to
Morgan Stanley
2004-2011
architecture in Hamburg, completing the "Deichtor Center" and the "Hanse Forum", among others, in these years.
2012-2015
2015
2016-2017
2018
2019-2021
2021
What
we
build on
company values
The most precious resource
for the future: experience.
Becken looks back over a 40-year history.
In this time, we have been around the block and seen many successful construction projects through.
But above all, we’ve never stopped learning.
And while we are sure there will always be new things to discover, our experience acts
as an insurance policy against responding inappropriately to unforeseen challenges.
The world’s most valuable currency?
Independence.
Many impressive construction projects never see the light of day. More often than not the reason is a lack of financing. Fortunately, we rarely hit that wall – thanks to our financial independence. The upshot is that we are in a position to execute property projects under our own steam from the word go. This not only gives us great strength and flexibility but also makes our company very attractive to potential partners.
We are only as good
as our employees.
Real Estates is a people business. We believe the final call must be made by people, not markets. After all, it’s not a company that earns your trust but the representative you interact with. We may not be the only ones who claim to take a personal interest in every one of our projects, but few others take decisions like proprietors and not service providers. That’s why we advise others, the way we want to be advised.
How to take the high road?
Assume responsibility.
Through our history, we have learned how important it is to take responsibility. And the bigger we grow, the more significant that responsibility becomes – especially in such a thorny area as the development of urban office and living space. Because we build for people who have deliberately chosen to make the city the focus of their lives, we endeavour to provide them with the best opportunities for personal growth. At the end of the day, this is our home, too.
Attention to detail.
Look at the big picture.
As a property company, we service all links in the value chain throughout a property’s life cycle – developing residential and commercial buildings of lasting value from financing to construction. This know-how makes us an expert partner for private and institutional investors, who want to achieve great things together with us. You need to keep one eye on the big picture to get the details spot on.
