BILTON Holding

What BILTON Holding does

BILTON Holding AG is a privately held Hamburg-based Family Office that manages and develops its own portfolio of assets and shareholdings with a stated objective of long-term, intergenerational value creation. The group operates through a two-entity structure: BILTON Holding AG at Großer Burstah 3 in Hamburg serves as the parent and central service provider to shareholders and group companies, while the wholly-owned operating subsidiary BILTON Real Estate GmbH acquires, develops, and manages the group's real estate portfolio. A dedicated Facility Management branch division handles technical property operations.

BILTON Real Estate's portfolio is concentrated exclusively in the Hamburg metropolitan area and is organized around four named development projects: BURSTAH, a four-building mixed-use quarter in Hamburg city center (office, retail, gastronomy, and residential) launched in 2023 and incorporating the heritage GLOBUSHOF; RGB (Red Green Black), an office and boardinghouse ensemble on Winterhuder Weg comprising RED offices, GREEN serviced apartments, and BLACK commercial lofts, with construction beginning in 2022; GLOBUSHOF, the 1908-built heritage property with its Neptun statue facade slated for completion in 2029; and the ongoing NIKOLAI Quartier at the historic 1870 Commerzbank founding site, delivering approximately 100 modern apartments, office space, and gastronomy across the NIK 8 and NIK 11 buildings.

The company's business model is a buy-and-hold Family Office strategy: properties are not sold and there are no external funding rounds, capital-markets listings, or institutional investors referenced in the source data. Revenue mechanics are not publicly disclosed but are implied to come from rental income on office, retail, gastronomy, and residential properties, supplemented by internal property and facility management services. The supervisory board is chaired by Daniela Herz-Schnoeckel, with the management board comprising CEO Sebastian Schnoeckel, Gerhard Biasi, and Dr. Rainer Kutzner; BILTON Real Estate GmbH is led by Managing Directors Adam Filipiak and Heike Grahlmann. Marketing and distribution are minimal, limited to the corporate website and direct relationships, consistent with a discreet Family Office posture.

Name

BILTON Holding

Legal name

BILTON Holding AG

Website

https://bilton.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

BILTON Holding AG is a Hamburg-based Family Office that acquires, develops, and holds office, retail, gastronomy, and residential real estate in the Hamburg metropolitan area for long-term, intergenerational value creation, operating through its real estate subsidiary BILTON Real Estate GmbH.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Real Estate Investment & Management

NAICS

Offices of Other Holding Companies (551112), Lessors of Other Real Estate Property (53119), Management of Companies and Enterprises (55111)

SIC

Real Estate Dealers (For Their Own Account) (6532), Investors, Nec (6799)

akta.pro primary industry

Commercial Real Estate Asset Management (BPAJAMAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Retail Real Estate Asset Management (BPAJAMAF)

Keywords

• Family office services
• Real estate investment
• Asset management
• Property development
• Commercial property management

Headquarters

HQ city

Hamburg

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Others

Core offering

BILTON Holding AG is a Family Office with a conservative investment strategy that manages sustainable assets and serves as a central service provider for its shareholders and group companies. Through wholly owned subsidiary BILTON Real Estate GmbH it invests in, develops and manages a portfolio of office, retail, gastronomy and residential real estate in Hamburg, including the projects BURSTAH, RGB (Red Green Black), GLOBUSHOF and NIKOLAI Quartier, retaining assets long-term rather than selling them.

Product overview

BILTON Holding AG is a Family Office with conservative investment strategy, serving as the parent company and central service provider. Its subsidiary BILTON Real Estate GmbH handles all real estate operations including acquisition, development, and long-term portfolio management. The real estate portfolio consists of multiple named projects and sub-brands: BURSTAH (mixed-use quarter in Hamburg city center), RGB (Red Green Black - office and boardinghouse ensemble), GLOBUSHOF (heritage building revitalization), and NIKOLAI Quartier (residential and commercial development). The company focuses on office and residential properties in Hamburg with a long-term buy-and-hold strategy.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• BILTON Real Estate GmbH leasing and management services
• BILTON Holding AG Family Office services
• BURSTAH quarter

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Patrizia SE: German listed real estate investment company managing residential, commercial, and logistics real estate across Europe. Comparable in German real estate asset management but at substantially larger scale and with a broader European footprint.
• Union Investment Real Estate: Hamburg-based real estate investment manager operating open-ended and special real estate funds with European property portfolios. Comparable as a Hamburg-headquartered real estate asset manager, but operates at significantly greater scale via third-party capital.
• ECE Group: One of Europe's largest operators and developers of shopping centers and commercial real estate, headquartered in Hamburg. Broad incumbent in the German real estate space with comparable Hamburg operations but a much larger and more diversified portfolio than BILTON.
• TAG Immobilien AG: German listed residential real estate company focused on German housing portfolios, including significant holdings in Hamburg. Comparable in residential asset class and German geographic focus, but operates as a public company at much larger scale.

Direct peers

• Quantum Immobilien AG: German project developer focused on inner-city residential and mixed-use real estate in major German metropolitan areas. Directly comparable to BILTON's project-based development model and German city-center mixed-use focus.
• Becken Holding: German family-owned real estate developer and asset manager focused on office, hotel, and residential properties in major German cities. Directly comparable to BILTON as a privately held, vertically integrated German real estate holding company pursuing long-term value creation.
• Hamburg Team: Hamburg-based real estate developer and investor focused on residential and commercial projects in the Hamburg metropolitan area. Direct regional peer sharing the same city focus, mixed-use development approach, and German family/owner-managed structure as BILTON.
• Art-Invest Real Estate: German real estate investment and development company managing office, hotel, residential and mixed-use properties across German gateway cities. Comparable in mixed-use development strategy and German prime-location focus.

Emerging players

• ACCUMULATA Real Estate: Munich-based real estate investor and developer focused on German mixed-use and office projects. Comparable in German city-center mixed-use focus, though typically operates in southern German markets rather than Hamburg.

Regional players

• HC Hamburgische Immobilien Handlung: Hamburg-based real estate company focused on residential and commercial property investment and development in northern Germany. Regional peer sharing the Hamburg geographic focus and mixed residential/commercial strategy, but with a more regional, less flagship-project orientation.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights1 record

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/bilton-real-estate

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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