2025 Full-Year Real Estate Market Report for Duisburg: Stability Meets Development Opportunities – Signs of a New Beginning
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“In the Duisburg real estate market, reliable data is key to making investment decisions. That is exactly what the 2025 Duisburg Real Estate Market Annual Report is all about: serving as a guide for users.”
Office Real Estate: Healthy Vacancy Rate of 4.6%, Below the Regional Average
Logistics as a Regional Strength: Maintaining a Leading Position in the Ruhr Region
Light Industrial Real Estate: An Opportunity with Significant Growth Potential
Duisburg, March 5, 2026. In 2025, the real estate market in Duisburg continued to be influenced by a challenging macroeconomic environment: high construction and financing costs, cautious user decisions, and selective investment activity shaped developments across nearly all asset classes. The independent full-year report “Duisburg Real Estate Market 2025,” published by the City of Duisburg and Duisburg Business & Innovation, compiles the most important key figures and trends—providing a basis for decision-making regarding potential investments in Duisburg. The information was compiled during a roundtable discussion with real estate industry representatives and analyzed by market analyst bulwiengesa AG.
A look at the individual asset classes:
Office Market: In the office market, Duisburg appears to have stabilized in 2025—though demand remains subdued: Approximately 43,000 m² of office space was leased against a stock of about 2.31 million m² and a vacancy rate of 4.6%, which is below the regional average (5.3%). The average rent rose to 12.40 euros/m², while prime rents remained stable between 18.50 and 22.00 euros/m².
Retail Real Estate: The retail location is currently in a consolidation phase, but with a retail centrality index of 107.3, it continues to serve as a hub for the surrounding area. Among other factors, the opening of a Decathlon store at Forum Duisburg is providing a boost. In addition, DBI 2025’s city management team helped lease a total of 33 vacant retail spaces—more than twice as many as in the previous year.
Logistics Market: In 2025, Duisburg also reaffirmed its leading position in the Rhine-Ruhr logistics region: The stock of modern logistics real estate rose to approximately 729,850 m² of usable space (+2.2%), and space take-up totaled 28.3 thousand m². In the investment market, logistics/manufacturing was once again the mainstay: approximately 75% of the commercial investment volume of 169 million euros was attributable to this segment.
Light Industrial Real Estate (formerly Commercial Real Estate): The portfolio grew significantly in 2025 to 228,000 m² (previous year: 212,000 m²). Take-up rose to 7,500 m² (previous year: 1,710 m²), but remains below the levels seen from 2020 to 2023. Flexible business parks—including the one at the former Zajac Zoo site in Neumühl—are considered a stable foundation that will support rising take-ups in the future.
Hotel Real Estate: Following the consolidation in 2024, market momentum picked up again in 2025: Overnight stays rose to 321,928 (previous year: 295,200). Starting in the fall, the number of hotels increased to 24 with the opening of two new properties. Bed occupancy remained stable at 41.3% (previous year: 41.1%). The Twins Hotel, with 100 rooms, and the Premier Inn, with 219 rooms, provided a boost on the supply side.
Residential Real Estate: The total residential floor area stands at 19.3 million m²; the completion of 20,700 m² represents limited growth in supply amid stable demand. For new-construction leases, the average rent rose to 12.00 €/m² (previous year: 11.20 €/m²), and the prime rent to 15.00 €/m² (previous year: 14.00 €/m²). For existing properties, the average rent is €7.80/m² (previous year: €7.50/m²), and the prime rent is €10.20/m² (previous year: €10.00/m²). For purchase prices of condominiums, new construction reaches up to 4,600 €/m² (previous year: 4,400 €/m²), and in prime locations such as 6-Seen-Wedau, up to 6,000 €/m²; existing condominiums average 1,900 €/m².
Investment Market: The transaction volume in 2025 totaled approximately €169 million (previous year: €203 million)—the market is selective but once again more predictable. Logistics and industrial properties dominate the market with approximately €130 million. Investors are focusing on functionally positioned existing properties. Prime yields stand at approximately 5.5% for office properties (previous year: 5.4%), 6.7% for retail properties (previous year: 6.5%), and 5.2% for logistics properties (previous year: 5.0%) – Duisburg thus remains a major logistics and industrial hub.
“In the Duisburg real estate market, reliable data is key to making investment decisions. That is exactly what the 2025 Duisburg Real Estate Market Annual Report is all about: serving as a guide for users.”
“Right now, we need projects with a clear focus. Duisburg offers the right conditions for this: infrastructure, land, and a growing emphasis on quality.”
“By realigning our company, we are creating the organizational framework needed to develop our urban areas in an even more targeted and pragmatic manner. This will enable us, in close cooperation with DBI, to systematically bring Duisburg’s future development sites to market readiness and strategically strengthen Duisburg as an attractive business and investment location.”
Conclusion: Duisburg offers stability in key segments while also providing opportunities for growth—especially where quality, available space, and ESG considerations converge.
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