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Sirius Real Estate

property investment company

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ85801365
Source-derived summary

Sirius Real Estate is a property company investing in business parks in Germany and the United Kingdom.

History

The company was established in February 2007, and was listed on the Alternative Investment Market in May 2007. In 2014, the company launched a listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. The company had acquired 40 business parks in Germany by the time it transferred to the main market in March 2017. In March 2019, the company entered into a joint venture to invest in business parks in Germany with AXA Investment Managers.

In November 2021, the company acquired the UK-based property business, BizSpace.

Operations

Sirius Real Estate owns and operates warehouses, business parks, industrial parks and offices in Germany and the United Kingdom. As of 31 March 2025, Sirius Real Estate reported owning and operating 2.4 million square metres of space. The company's investment portfolio was self-valued at £3.0 billion as of 31 March 2026.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Sirius Real Estate” is property investment company. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Sirius, Real and Estate, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007, 2014, 2017, 2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Sirius, Real and Estate is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “property investment company” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q85801365. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2007, 2014, 2017 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from Sirius Real Estate” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.