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Duesseldorf enters 2026 as one of Germany's most resilient retail leasing markets, underpinned by exceptional purchasing power and one of the highest retail sales-per-capita figures in the country. The market is organised around three clearly differentiated 1A locations. The Koenigsallee remains Germany's pre-eminent luxury boulevard after Munich's Maximilianstrasse, lined with international maisons such as Louis Vuitton, Chanel and Gucci along its canal promenade. Schadowstrasse, by contrast, is a volume high street carrying some of the highest pedestrian footfall in Germany, materially boosted by the completed Wehrhahn-Linie U-Bahn and the adjacent Koe-Bogen ensemble. Flinger Strasse in the Altstadt rounds out the prime trio with the city's strongest young-fashion competency, though its smaller heritage floorplates limit large-format demand. After the correction of recent years, prime rents have stabilised and edged higher in 2025, with Duesseldorf cited among the German markets recording positive rental momentum. Prime high-street rents sit in the region of EUR 270 per square metre per month, while the best luxury units on the Koe command broadly comparable or higher levels, supported by scarce ground-floor availability. Vacancy in the prime pitch is low, although secondary and 1B locations continue to face structural headwinds from e-commerce and shifting consumer patterns. The leasing pipeline is led by the Le Coeur scheme on the Koenigsallee, a roughly 47,000 square metre mixed-use redevelopment of the former Commerzbank headquarters completing in the second half of 2026. It is already largely let and will introduce new luxury and beauty entrants, including Diptyque's first Duesseldorf store and new F&B concepts such as Anna Maria. The Trinkaus Karree refurbishment adds further modern prime space to the Koe stretch. These projects are extending and upgrading the luxury pitch at a time when demand from beauty, watch and experiential operators is robust. The principal demand drivers are luxury and beauty expansion on the Koe, the sheer footfall of Schadowstrasse, and a steady rotation of F&B and experiential concepts backfilling vacated fashion units. Risks centre on a possible prime-rent correction signalled for parts of the German high-street sector in 2026, ongoing department-store fragility, and persistent online migration of non-food spend. On balance, Duesseldorf sits in early recovery: prime locations are tightening and re-pricing upward, while the rest of the market remains selective. For expanding brands, the combination of stabilising rents on Schadowstrasse and a refreshed luxury pitch on the Koenigsallee offers attractive, if competitive, re-entry points over the next twelve months.

vacancy: 4.5 percent prime 1A locations (estimate); luxury rent: 280 EUR/sqm/month; prime rent high street: 270 EUR/sqm/month.