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Retail sales are booming
All we’ve had over the last weeks and months are gloomy predictions from representatives of the retail industry about how badly the industry was suffering. And now this update from Germany’s Federal Statistics Office – we’ve had the highest sales gro Read more
26 Feb 2021
Kurt Rusam - Eyemaxx
Modular Construction – The Key to Affordable Housing
For decades, modular construction has been associated with uniformity and standardised building designs. And indeed, in the 1970s and 1980s at least, much of it was reminiscent of "Plattenbau 2.0". Since then, however, the building... Read more
21 Jan 2021
Markus Hill
FUND BOUTIQUES & PRIVATE LABEL FUNDS: Family Offices and Fund Boutiques – Seed Money, Incubators, and Goethe
Drill thick boards have a long breath and a lot of knowledge, all this in combination with deep pockets – this, or something similar, could be the success factors for an incubator in the area of investment funds. Similar to the terms family office... Read more
31 Dec 2020
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Propsci – An Underestimated Real Estate Asset Class in Germany
World affairs are currently clouded by the global COVID-19 pandemic. In a very short period of time, approximately 191 vaccine projects have been launched according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Among the countries with a particularly large Read more
17 Dec 2020
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Interview with Alexander Hoff, Managing Partner, Palmira Capital Partners
REFIRE caught up last week with Alexander Hoff, Managing Partner of Frankfurt-based Palmira Capital Partners, specialist in logistics and corporate real estate. Palmira invests alongside or on behalf of third party investors in modern logistics... Read more
9 Dec 2020
Lansdowne Partners Austria GmbH
Family Offices, Incubators, Property Direct Investments versus REITs? Interview with Martin Friedrich, Lansdowne Partners Austria GmbH
The topic areas of family offices, fund boutiques, and incubators often appear to be linked interestingly. Markus Hill spoke on behalf of FONDSBOUTIQUEN.DE with Martin Friedrich, Head of Economic and Market Research & Portfolio Manager, Lansdowne... Read more
16 Nov 2020
Greenwater Capital GmbH
Why smaller real estate brokers are an important element in the real estate biotope
The trend for the big internationally-known names among real estate brokers to increasingly dominate the market has been evident for some time, similar to the development in other industries. Does this raise the prospect that, at some point, only... Read more
9 Nov 2020
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Women in work: how East Germany’s socialist past has influenced West German mothers
When Germany was reunited 30 years ago, the general feeling was of hope. People felt a wind of change breeze through both parts of the country. With reunification, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) became part of the Federal German Republic... Read more
16 Oct 2020
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Estonia is a ‘digital republic’ – what that means and why it may be everyone’s future
People around the globe have been watching the build up to the US election with disbelief. Particularly confusing to many is the furore over postal ballots, which the US president, Donald Trump is insisting will lead to large-scale voter fraud... Read more
9 Oct 2020
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Remote working is here to stay – but that doesn’t mean the end of offices or city centres
When coronavirus lockdowns were introduced, the shift to remote working was sudden and sweeping. Now the British government is hoping the return to the office will be just as swift – to help the economy “get back to normal”. But pushing everyone... Read more
3 Sep 2020
