QUEST Investment Partners continues on growth course. Two experienced project developers to set up new office in Frankfurt
Hamburg, 18 February 2020. In addition to their existing offices in Hamburg and Berlin, real estate project developers QUEST Investment Partners have now opened a branch in Frankfurt am Main. Martin Schwientek (43) and Simon Speidel (45) are in charge of the new office in the German metropolis. Both were previously with the real estate service firm Jones Lang LaSalle SE (JLL), where they worked on a range of major projects together. They have excellent connections and broad knowledge of the real estate market in the Rhine-Main area. The first projects Schwientek and Speidel will oversee are the development project on Baseler Straße 46-48 / Gutleutstraße 80-82, with roughly 25,000 m2, and the revitalisation of the Hotel Hohenzollern building at Düsseldorfer Straße 1–7, where the new QUEST office is based. Both properties are located in the up-and-coming area around Frankfurt’s central station.
“Thanks to the stable demand for centrally located office spaces, we believe that attractive locations in Frankfurt’s city centre will continue to harbour great potential going forward. We aim to expand our portfolio there,” explains Theja Geyer, Managing Partner at QUEST Investment Partners.
Martin Schwientek and Simon Speidel to set up the new Frankfurt am Main branch
Martin Schwientek is an architect, graduate engineer and qualified real estate economist. He was at JLL in Frankfurt for the past six years, most recently as Director Project & Development Services, after working for various architectural offices in the beginning of his career and as an external consultant for development projects for four years.
Graduate civil engineer Simon Speidel, like Schwientek, previously worked for JLL in Frankfurt for nine years, where he most recently held the position of Director Project & Development Services. Prior to that, he lived and worked in Dubai and Abu Dhabi for eight years, where he was a Senior Project Manager for Tilke & Partners LLC for four years, overseeing a range of development projects and setting up the Doha/Qatar office.
Since its foundation in 2016, QUEST Investment Partners has invested over 1.4 billion euros in 28 properties with a total surface area of almost 217,000 m2.
About QUEST Investment Partners
QUEST Investment Partners is a real estate project development and investment company with offices in Hamburg, Berlin and Frankfurt. QUEST focuses on investments in commercial and residential properties with upside potential in top locations of major German cities The QUEST team has extensive experience in the development of high-quality real estate projects and continuously aims at increasing the real estate values of its shareholders and investors. QUEST’s shareholders are the managing directors Theja Geyer and Jan Rouven Künzel as well as the investment holding company of the Hamburg entrepreneur Erck Rickmers who is invested in real estate, equity investments and shipping.
