Brxit

What happens if parliament rejects a Brexit deal?

UK prime minister Theresa May’s government is engaged in high stakes negotiations over the terms of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU. There are some fundamental differences between the UK government and the EU’s negotiating task force, with time... more

Office

Germany’s co-working sector gets a shake-up

Germany’s co-working space getting a shake-up as new – and unexpected - landlords enter the fray. more

Berlin - Germany

Berlin office market outperforms its German counterparts

Berlin has outperformed its German counterparts to record the strongest office rental growth in the third quarter, up 3.2%, according to JLL’s European Office Clock Q3 2018, published this month. more

Berlin

High demand and rising costs keep pushing up Berlin residential prices

As with its office market (see article elsewhere in this issue – “Berlin office market outperforms its German counterparts”),Berlin continues to be the pacemaker for investors in Germany’s residential housing market, with transaction volumes doubling more

Big Seven 7 Germany

New study with focus on construction gap in Germany’s larger cities

A new study by the Switzerland-based Empira Group finds no conclusive evidence of a general undersupply of housing in Germany, although it does confirm an increasing housing shortage in the country’s Top 7 markets. more

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Cooling in German hotel market – but individual deals still strong

After several boom years on the German hotel market, things are cooling down, particularly in respect of larger portfolio deals, although figures in from Q3 suggest that interest in individual hotel properties remains buoyant. more

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Munich

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REFIRE bumped into Scope Analysis’s Sonja Knorr at the recent EXPO REAL in Munich, coincidentally just as the Berlin-based ratings and analyst company Scope released its own study of the housing markets in Germany’s biggest 10 cities. more

Markets

EXPO REAL

Messe München GmbH

EXPO REAL got off to a cracking start again this year, with more than 44,500 visitors descending on the fair, in a sign that Europe’s real estate boom is still going full throttle. more

Markets

Jacopo Mingazzini

ESTAVIS AG

Among German listed companies raising further capital this month were Berlin residential specialist Accentro, and commercial real estate investor DEMIRE Deutsche Mittelstand Real Estate. more

Companies

Shopping Centre

If investment in German shopping centres isn’t the highest priority for domestic or international investors right now, with many steering deliberately well clear of the sector, it’s certainly a boom period for those whose job is the revitalization... more

Markets

Garden Tower

Hochhaus I Objekt S.á.r.l. & Co.KG

Investment in Germany has rocketed this year, with 70.2% of institutional investors acquiring real estate assets there, up from 46.8% last year, according to fund manager Universal-Investment’s sixth Investor Survey, published this month. more

Investment

German residential

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The Stuttgart-based Landesbank LBBW has launched its own real estate fund management business, and set up subsidiary LBBW Immobilien Investment Management GmbH (LIIM) to steer the new venture aimed at German semi-professional... more

Companies

Angela Merkel

EPA

After 18 years as chairwoman of the conservative Christian Democratic Union and 13 years as German chancellor, Angela Merkel surprised the public and her own party colleagues by announcing her intention to withdraw from politics. It is somewhat... more

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Joint Venture

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British online estate agent Purplebricks is making its first foray into the German market, teaming up with media giant Axel Springer to buy a stake in the country’s market leader, Homeday. more

Investment

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