With the NEO Logistics Impact Report, the BAUAKADEMIE Group publishes an annual market report that ensures transparency in cost and energy figures in the logistics real estate segment. The starting signal has now been given for the second market report since 2024. Companies are called upon to contribute their own data to the report and make it available for anonymous evaluation. They will receive an individual benchmark report for each property they contribute.
The market report “NEO Logistics Impact,” published by BAUAKADEMIE, an affiliated institute of the Berlin University of Applied Sciences, is entering its second round. NEO is the official successor to the OSCAR study, which was published in cooperation with JLL until 2018. The innovative report focuses on the current cost and energy indicators for logistics properties in Germany. To this end, companies in the industry are asked to provide figures and data on operating and maintenance costs in order to define, collect, and evaluate the “impacts” resulting from the use of logistics warehouses.
Operating costs have long been more than a minor issue
The anonymized data is used to compile a market report that provides users, owners, and their service providers with a neutral assessment and answers. These relate to key questions concerning the operating costs of their logistics properties and ways of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In addition to providing an overview of operating costs, the report delivers a valid and comprehensive database on the energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions of logistics buildings.
“Operating costs have long since become more than a minor issue for investors, owners, and users alike. Rising energy prices and labor costs, higher maintenance costs, and stricter regulatory requirements have led to a significant increase in operating costs for logistics properties in recent years. With the NEO Impact Report, we have created a tool that provides transparency and, through market comparison, enables every player to see exactly where their own logistics property stands in comparison. On this basis, levers can be identified that can be used to reduce costs efficiently,” says Andreas Kühne, spokesman for the management of the BAUAKADEMIE Group.
Initial evaluation yielded numerous insights for users
With the NEO Logistics Impact Report 2024/2025, the Bauakademie published its first comprehensive evaluation of cost and energy indicators for the logistics real estate asset class in Germany. The analysis was based on data from 2023 provided by 21 companies, covering a total of 155 logistics warehouses with a gross floor area of 5.5 million square meters. With the help of a newly developed operating cost calculator, index-based projections of operating costs for 2024 and forecasts for 2025 were also created.
“The first NEO has produced relevant results for all stakeholders involved in logistics real estate. On the one hand, it has shown that operating costs are increasingly being shifted to tenants, while certain costs, such as insurance, have risen significantly. There is enormous catching up to do, particularly in the energy sector and thus in efforts to achieve greater decarbonization. We are very excited to see whether the second market report validates these findings and what further insights it will reveal,“ explains Kühne, emphasizing: ”The more companies participate and provide information, the larger the database will be, and all market players will benefit from its analysis.”
Expert advisory board as strategic advisor
Technical expertise in establishing the benchmark and interpreting the results is ensured by proven experts in the form of an advisory board, representing all stages of the value chain from planning, construction, financing, leasing, and utilization to operation.
The advisory board currently consists of representatives from Fabrikon, FIEGE, SICORE Real Assets, SPIE, Tattersall Lorenz, and WISAG, and is being expanded in a targeted manner.
Participation in the NEO Impact Report 2025/26 is free of charge. Data can be submitted until January 16, 2026, at the following web address: https://neobench.de/teilnahme/.
The market report is scheduled for publication in April 2026.
