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Residential prices still rising despite growing fears of "end of cycle"
Despite growing signs of uncertainty and even outright pessimism in Germany's residential housing market, the prices of apartments and houses continues to rise, as shown by new figures for the first quarter from the VdP, the Association of Pfandbrief Read more
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Spreads between returns and risk-free bonds headed for further narrowing
The spread between yields on German open-ended mutual real estate funds and German government bonds narrowed last year to its lowest point since 2014, as the Scope rating agency shows in a recently-published study. The study compared the average annu Read more
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Investor optimism returns to Berlin housing market after scares of 2020
After a turbulent couple of years on the Berlin residential housing market, characterised by the ravages of the pandemic, the drive for expropriation of the city's largest property owners, and the Mietendeckel decision - and subsequent overthrow by G Read more
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Climate change regulations set to increase as quango appointments proceed
The fourth ZIA Finance Day took place in Berlin recently, a get-together of leading heads in the real estate industry under the auspices of the industry's leading lobby organisation, the Zentraler Immobilien Ausschuss, or the German Property Federati Read more
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Non-listed real estate attracting capital at pre-COVID levels
Capital raised for European non-listed real estate has recovered to a pre-pandemic record high, showing a 107% increase on the €123 billion raised in 2020, according to the Capital Raising Survey 2022 published by ANREV, INREV and NCREIF, presented a Read more