The properties are owned by insolvent German company IVG Immobilien AG (IVG), which is seeking to sell off equity to pay down €3.2bn worth of debt accumulated during a massive expansion.
The Frankfurt office block, The Squaire, has a price tag of €850m, while the company’s trophy tower the Gherkin is worth €700m, according to Property Investor Europe magazine, which quoted German weekly business magazine WirtschaftsWoche.
IVG was once Germany’s biggest publicly held property company, with about €5bn worth of office buildings across Europe and about €15bn worth of real estate it manages for private and institutional clients, including a fund that owns 50 percent of the Gherkin tower, according to Bloomberg.
Qatar already owns several prominent European properties, including Harrod’s department store and Chelsea Barracks in London.
