The only nationwide real estate agency in Denmark since 1978
+650 +250 Dedicated employees in EDC Poul Erik Bech group, including Specialised staff in the commercial divisions
“Let us help you, so you can focus on your core business, while we focus on ours.”
..are the three pillars on which the company was founded in 1978. These core values remain at the core of our business, and their validity has been confirmed by strong results, solid growth and satisfied clients.
EDC Erhverv Poul Erik Bech
Hard work is part of our culture, and deeply rooted throughout the company. Our employees continually strive to provide our clients with knowledge-based advice and first-class service, and our phones are open from 8 a.m. to 8. p.m. – 365 days a year.
Our ethics mean you can have confidence in us, in our dedication and our business ethics, in our way of working together, and in our transparent processes that provide our clients with security and overview.
A solid sense of business is your guarantee for a satisfactory and profitable business outcome. Our focus is on representing our clients and their interests in the most optimal way. The performance of our experienced specialists is continuously assessed with regards to competence, performance and negotiating skills to ensure that our clients can always count on high quality services.
Poul Erik Bech Foundation
In 2015 Founder and CEO Poul Erik Bech donated 60 % of his shares to the Poul Erik Bech Foundation. Since then, part of the surplus generated by the EDC Poul Erik Bech company has been used by the Foundation to support for instance people with disabilities, children living in difficult circumstances, as well as numerus art projects.
In 2023, Poul Erik Bech Foundation received DKK 2 million, after which it has received a total of DKK 65 million for charitable causes since its inception in 2015.
We close more than 3,000 commercial deals within our fields of expertise across Denmark each year using in-house competencies, specialists and dedicated teams. At the moument we can offer the following services.
Tenant representation
Capital Markets Letting
Valuation
Project sale and lease Agriculture Advisory
Research
Property management
Project development
20 business centers in:
• Copenhagen
• Herlev
• Hillerød
• Slagelse
• Køge
• Taastrup
• Roskilde
Marketing Press and PR
• Næstved
• Odense
• Sønderborg
• Kolding
• Vejle
• Esbjerg
• Århus
• Viborg
• Ålborg
• Herning
• Silkeborg
• Aabenraa
• Vendsyssel
Our aim is to provide all clients with the best solutions, expertise and insight. Our employees have a variety of backgrounds, education and experience from other sectors, ranging from chartered surveyors (MDE), MRICS, RICS Registered valuers, M.Sc. Finance, M.Sc. Law, M.Sc. Economics, HD Finance, bankers, property managers, engineers and IT programmers etc. A number of our employees have experience from cooperation with/working at large international surveying companies, including for instance Cushman/Wakefield, Savills etc. We have the largest number of RICS certified staff in Denmark, ensuring consistent up to date knowledge and reliable advice.
EDC International Poul Erik Bech cooperates with JLL in providing customised services to international clients in Denmark and Danish clients operating on markets abroad. This cooperation is very wellfunctioning, and we solve all types of cases together. JLL and EDC International Poul Erik Bech should therefore be considered as one unit for our clients.
Our joint in-depth expertise within the specific services requested in the scope, geographical coverage as well as documented experience on similar projects, have made us a trusted partner for international transactions.
All team members will sign NDAs pertaining to all dealings with the client, and all files and documents are stored in closed data rooms where only the employees engaged directly in the project have access, including the employees of the client.
The scope typically includes conducting a thorough examination of the specific case, and outlining legal, technical, and financial characteristics of each option. Collecting, analyzing, and presenting the data is performed to substantiate the decision-making process.
We adhere to Danish legislation meaning that the Court of Jurisdiction is Denmark, as is customary in real estate projects located in Denmark. Furthermore, clients will not be met with team members with less than 10 years of experience within commercial real estate.
EDC International will be able to propose deliveries within architectural, legal, technical and environmental due diligence, and we offer retrieval of construction tenders, provide knowledge on antiterror safety measures and advise on collaboration with local political and administrative authorities entities and authorities.
As necessary, we have relations with contractors providing additional services.
The primary form of communication is through e-mail, but we consider conference calls to be a vital tool for aligning all project members. We are accessible in the time slot from 6am to 9pm CET, according to the needs of the client. Your one point of entry will be partner, director, head of international relations, Helle Nielsen Ziersen.
If the final contract deviates from the content of the scope, we reserve the right to discuss a possible adjustment of the offer.
EDC International Poul Erik Bech in collaboration with JLL caters for your diverse real estate needs whether you are an international company looking to establish yourself in Denmark or a Danish company venturing to foreign markets.
We always operate with one One-Point Entry for each client, which ensures efficient communication and services tailored to your business. Your OnePoint Entry will also put together the best team for the job, whether these are experts, local estate agents or external business partners.
Our strength is the size and nationwide coverage of our organization, so we can offer all our clients international, national and local expertise. With more than 250 employees in our commercial division, we have the capacity to provide 360° service, adding value regardless of scope.
The international division is specifically working with international clients and has experience in adapting special requirements, reports, spreadsheets, and differences between cultures.
The combination of our local presence and collaboration across geography and fields of expertise means that we are involved in a broad range of institutional property-related investments.
With specific expertise in various segments of the real estate industry, we provide research, advice and other services to international and national investors and capital fund managers seeking to establish a real estate portfolio in Denmark.
Our team has 150+ years of experience with property transactions within residential, office, retail, logistics, hotels and other more niche property types.
Our customers include international investors, Danish pension funds, REITs, large professional investors, Family Offices and private investors and we act as brokers, buy-side advisors and strategic advisors to these property owners.
A personal network is valuable, but only few have a complete overview of market demand. For this reason, we have developed an online database consisting of active buyers and tenants, ensuring a structured accumulation of the current market demand. We have more than 2,500 active tenants registered in a continuously updated database. Our clients benefit from the fact that we can match a property or premise with the search criteria in the database, and thereby have potential tenants already from day one.
We will help you find your new tenancy based on a thorough understanding of your customer strategy, business plan, and identity. Through a structured approach, we will perform a property search and present our customers with a list of premises meeting their requirements.
EDC Erhverv Poul Erik Bech
advises on more than 550 lettings each year.
We never represent both parties in the same case
Based on comprehensive datasets and a scientific approach, combined with our unique and specific knowledge of the market, we ensure an informed basis for decisions-making. We publish quarterly market reports with current vacancy rates, yield requirements and rental levels as well as an annual expectations survey.
Our in-house research department supports our customers with tailormade analyses and we generally use market analyses as a basis for the recommendations we give our customers, as well as key sales arguments in presentation material for a property or portfolio.
Market Update is both published in Danish and English.
At EDC International we understand the importance of accurate and robust valuations. We understand the need for on-time delivery of valuations prepared in accordance with best practice standards and we understand how, at times, our clients’ required reporting content and format may vary from a standard reporting.
Our extended core valuation team of MRICS Registered Valuers is based in Copenhagen, Aarhus, Aalborg and Esbjerg. Additionally, we draw on a set of locally placed valuation experts when required, thus combined covering all five Danish regions.
Valuations are managed centrally with valuer teams formed according to the type and requirement of each valuation mandate. Through teams comprising both central core valuation professionals and local valuation and market experts, valuations will be prepared to best practice standards and on the basis of a firm foundation regardless of geographical location and type of asset.
Our core valuers have diverse finance and property related educational backgrounds. All are MRICS Registered Valuers having between 10 to 40 years’ experience as professionals in the property market.
LEA is our property management service, handling all aspects of properties for both national and international clients. We manage many different property portfolios and tenant/owner associations, and therefore have a solution that suits you.
Flexibility is the key word at LEA Ejendomspartner:
• Choose from Total Administration or customised administration services.
• One contact person for all properties, with an associated team to solve the tasks
• Highly qualified staff with years of experience and with one of the market’s most advanced IT-system
• We ensure all the practicalities of accounts, budget, salary, legal issues, contact with residents and authorities, etc.
• Individually tailored reporting to suit your specific needs
• Strategic advisory on optimisation of property portfolios
• Operating and maintenance services offered through the subsidiary Promana Building Advisory Service
We have specialized project departments in Copenhagen and Aarhus providing advice on construction projects all over Denmark in close cooperation with our residential estate agencies. Our thorough local knowledge and advice also benefit developers and investors prior to the actual construction. In our experience, the provision of solid and evidence-based advice on floor space, layout and facilities has a bearing on the ultimate rent as well as the tenancy agreement conclusion rate.
As Denmark’s largest real estate company with a dedicated agriculture department, we can effectively assist with lease, sale and purchase of agricultural properties. We are independent of banks and mortgage lenders and can advise on all matters related to transactions and valuations of agricultural properties.
EDC International Poul Erik Bech (EDC) is part of the Poul Erik Bech group, whose majority owner is the Poul Erik Bech Foundation.
EDC is a member of DE, the Danish Association of Chartered Estate Agents, and RICS accredited.
EDC is an independent local partner of JLL, and we are not affiliated with any technical, legal, taxation or financial advisors.
However, we can recommend partners with whom we have previous experience with the aim of providing the best possible solution to the client.
At EDC, we represent both landlords and tenants, buyers and sellers, but we never represent both sides in the same transaction.
As a member of DE, we are not allowed to and will never collect any form of financial compensation from more than one party in a transaction.
Should your optimal leasehold be in commission from one of our letting brokers representing the landlord, we will forfeit the advisory to and compensation from one of the parties/the landlord. We will immediately disclose any conflicts of interest should they arise.
At EDC and JLL, we are willing to sign non-disclosure agreements with you should you deem this to be necessary.
Several of our international clients have a policy on their ESG approach, either as a corporate strategy, or due to being included in the EU taxonomy regulation. We work with the demands and expectations of tenants and investors, whether related to green tenant contracts or the carbon footprint of a property.
There are currently a variety of different building certificates worldwide. In Denmark newer buildings are often DGNB certified which is comparable to BREEAM or LEED.
Not all properties have applied for a DGNB certification but have a policy of securing as little impact on the environment as possible. We will during the search vs stay process focus on the specific needs and requirements set by our clients.
We focus on establishing an environmentally conscious cooperation between tenant and landlord from the offset, making it a shared rather than a split responsibility.
In terms of investments and investors, some partners focus on green investment opportunities while others are specialized in developing and converting existing “grey” properties.
Green lending is another growing focus area, and we are work to create analytical tools and instruments to assess the impact of a property’s environmental footprint on returns and revenue over time.
E: Sustainability has become a central part of the real estate sector in Denmark, with Copenhagen pioneering an ambitious goal of becoming the world’s first 100% carbon neutral capital. EDC contributes with a sustainabIe vision of becoming a CO₂ neutral real estate company by 2025, through foresting, investing in wind and solar energy and execution on a range of in-house initiatives related to transportation and commuting, energy use, waste handling, etc.
S: EDC was a first mover in the real estate sector, placing a high value on social responsibility. Giving back to the community we are a part of is deeply rooted in our DNA. Established in 2015, the Poul Erik Bech Foundation supports charitable activities and humanitarian work for children, based on voluntary work, local presence and direct social impact.
G: Our business is built on a foundation of integrity, and we strive to maintain high standards of ethical behavior, transparency, and credibility. We prioritize compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as part of our commitment to protect the rights of our employees and customers. In accordance with the Whistleblower and the Anti-Laundering Act, we have an established whistleblower scheme through which irregularities and violations can be reported.
We wish to be part of setting the future ESG agenda – and we believe that what is good for the planet is also good for business.
See our ESG Report: https://issuu.com/edc.dkerhverv/docs/esgreport_engelsk_version/
By upholding a high quality coupled with market knowledge, we publish 12 segmented magazines a year. Our publications include Focus Magazines for office, retail, logistics & Industrial assets.
In addition to this we publish four Market Update as well as Expectations for the upcoming year and we contribute to other publication like JLL Nordic Outlook and JLL Multifamily Investment Report.
Market Update is both published in Danish and English.
www.edc.dk
We gather data from Denmarks largest reale state website
Social Media
We use our customer data anonymously on all major social networks
EDC Poul Erik Bech is a Certified Partner in Google Ads
Leads
We continuously gather leads across all marketing channels, directly integrated into our CRM
Conversion
We monitor and analyze all channels, and use intelligent software to improve conversion rates
We have a strong network, but on top of that we are already in contact with more than 3,000 companies searching for commercial properties in Denmark through our online database.
The database consists of companies that have registered their search criteria and needs. Every registration is manually updated afterwards by a real estate agent to ensure a rich and updated description as well as an indication of the preferred timing of a move.
Every 24 hours, the database matches the companies’ search criteria with the commercial properties for sale and lease in EDC. An e-mail is automatically sent if a match occurs. The combination of our network and our extensive database increases the chances of finding the right tenant for your property.
All available l ogistics and industrial properties in Denmark.
Only properties with a nnual rents below DKK 1 mio .
…and less than 5 kilometers from a highway
The marketing of your property determines how quickly and well you get sold or rented out your property. We are committed and equipped to making your property visible and interesting to as many relevant buyers and tenants as possible. At EDC Erhverv Poul Erik Bech, marketing is therefore a key part of our advice and offers to our customers. We offer a good and tailored range of marketing options.
We have a large in-house marketing team working with the newest digital opportunities, focused on offering you a targeted solution. When we say targeted, we mean it, because an office property should not be marketed in the same way as an empty store. Therefore, our set-up contains a strategy for selecting channels and messages that will generate the highest interest of a well-defined target group. Among other things, we advertise your property in our 12 segmented magazines, targeting property investors as well as property owners and users within office, retail and logistics properties.
Furthermore, as Denmark's largest brokerage company, we have cost-effective solutions and create value for money.
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EDC client database
At EDC International Poul Erik Bech, we always work with “One-point entry” that ensures coordination and efficiency. We have more than 250 employees who work with commercial real estate, and we will put together a customized team that suits your needs. As needed our team will also consist of local real estate brokers and experts.
Helle Nielsen Ziersen
Partner, Director, Head of International Relations, MRICS hfur
Contact: +45 40 99 99 46
E-mail: hni@edc.dk
Janne Lykke Nielsen
Head of Valuations, International Relations, MRICS
Contact: +45 24 48 86 62
E-mail: jln@edc.dk
Anders Garly Andersen
International Relations Manager
Contact: +45 51 15 01 71
E-mail: aga@edc.dk
Jacob Lykke Bruun
Partner, Capital Markets
Contact: +45 40 25 66 45
E-mail: jlb@edc.dk
Joseph Alberti
Head of Research, MSc in Economics Alberti
Contact: +45 51 15 01 40
E-mail: joal@edc.dk
Astrid Amalie Juliussen
Head of Back Office, Real Estate Agent, MDE Juliussen
Contact: +45 58 58 87 81
E-mail: aaj@edc.dk
