GAGFAH (Gemeinnützige Aktiengesellschaft für Angestellten-Heimstätten) was a Luxembourg-based realty company. It owned a portfolio of more than 145,000 rental units in Germany, particularly concentrated in Dresden and Berlin.
Around 28% of the company was owned by various funds managed by the Fortress Investment Group.
The company was brought to the stock market in October 2006 through the sale of 20% of its shares at â¬19 per share, at the top of the â¬17-â¬19 price range quoted in its flotation prospectus.
For a while during the 2008 financial crisis GAGFAH's share price traded as low as â¬2 per share (down -89% on IPO price).
In 2015, GAGFAH merged with Deutsche Annington and was renamed Vonovia.
As part of the merger terms, GAGFAH shareholders received five new shares in Vonovia and â¬122.52 in cash for every 14 GAGFAH shares, equating to a value of â¬20.39 per GAGFAH share based on Vonovia's â¬32.38 closing share price on 6th March 2015. In a subsequent tender offer a small number of outstanding GAGFAH shares were sold to Vonovia for â¬18.68 per share in cash.