Warehouse & hall leasing in Hanover.

A logistics property needs to suit your goods flow, storage systems and transport routes. Floor area alone does not establish suitability. Usable clear height, floor load capacity and column spacing affect how the building can operate. Racking, cross-docking and smaller storage activities have different requirements. Specify the goods you handle and the equipment you intend to use in your search brief. Technical claims in a brochure should be checked against the property documentation before making a decision.

Loading docks and ground-level doors determine access for deliveries. Yard space, access widths and the separation of delivery traffic from staff routes also matter. Motorway proximity is useful only when the final approach accommodates the vehicles you plan to use. Delivery windows, permitted operating hours and the distance to customers or production sites belong in the location assessment. Office and staff facilities should reflect your actual workforce.

For a lease, we consider service charges, fit-out responsibility, term and handover condition alongside rent. For a purchase, land, maintenance obligations and existing leases require additional review. Listings here match the city, use category and rental or purchase intent. Warehouse pages also group industrial halls and self-storage listings, whose individual suitability still needs checking. A search brief records additional requirements without assuming that an advertised property has unverified technical features.

Hannover is one of Germany's structurally strongest logistics regions, anchored by the crossing of the A2 (Dortmund-Berlin) and A7 (Hamburg-Kassel) motorways, the GVZ rail-freight village at Lehrte, Hannover Airport in Langenhagen and inland-port capacity on the Mittellandkanal at Anderten. This combination gives occupiers fast access to northern and central German distribution catchments, which is why the suburban belt around Lehrte, Langenhagen, Garbsen and Laatzen consistently attracts the deepest demand and commands the most stable rents in the region. The leasing market made a clear recovery in 2025. Logistics and production take-up across the Region Hannover reached roughly 215,000 sqm, a marked rebound from the 2024 trough near 130,000 sqm, although volumes remain well short of the 350,000-plus sqm seen annually during the 2018-2022 boom. Prime rents for modern, third-party-usable space in good locations held at EUR 6.40/sqm/month, unchanged year on year, with the best airport- and hub-linked units pushing toward the upper end of the range. The defining feature of the market is not demand but supply: Region Hannover has repeatedly flagged a severe shortage of zoned, developable commercial land, which constrains new big-box delivery and keeps vacancy structurally low. Development activity is therefore concentrated where land can still be assembled. The GVZ/Lehrte freight village continues to expand, plots are being zoned along the A2 corridor around Sehnde, and brownfield redevelopment in Garbsen and Anderten is adding incremental modern stock. Speculative starts remain cautious given construction-cost and financing pressure, so well-located, ESG-compliant new space stays tightly held and can capture a premium over the ageing existing inventory. For occupiers and developers the twelve-month outlook is one of stable-to-firm pricing rather than rapid growth. Federal infrastructure and government investment programmes are expected to support logistics requirements, and the central location insulates Hannover from the demand weakness seen in less-connected regions. The principal risks are land scarcity diverting requirements elsewhere, a rent plateau at EUR 6.40/sqm, and softness in manufacturing and retail occupier expansion. On balance the market sits in an early-recovery phase: improving take-up, disciplined supply and resilient prime rents in the A2/A7 hub.

take up: 215,000 sqm, FY2025 logistics & production take-up (Region Hannover); vacancy: 3 % indicative vacancy, low-supply market (Region Hannover proxy); Prime rent: 6.4 EUR/sqm/month, prime rent for new logistics space in good locations.