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Angela Merkel: gentle persuasion in an age of populism
“Now she is all alone.” Former president Barack Obama slightly squinted and bit his lip in characteristic fashion as he spoke these words to his adviser. Obama had spent three hours alone with Angela Merkel in Hotel Adelon in Berlin. It was late... Read more
23 Sep 2021
FCR Immobilien AG
Retail properties: secondary locations offer attractive alternative investments
Investments in retail properties with a food store, drugstore or convenience store as anchor tenant offer a high degree of value stability. As seen most recently during the COVID-19 crisis, these retail segments are considered to be... Read more
29 Jul 2021
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Report from Europe’s flood zone: researcher calls out early warning system gridlock amid shocking loss of life
It was close to midnight when I received a phone call from my sister telling me that our parent’s house was under water. Neither she nor they really knew what to do next. They were in a state of shock amid an ongoing emergency. Read more
19 Jul 2021
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Betrugsfall: GPG Creditors Association Letter to the State Prosecutor in Hanover
ZWEITE FORMELLE BESCHWERDE Deutsche Immobiliengruppe Herr Charles Smethurst Read more
12 Jul 2021
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Significant investment potential in the independent living segment
In the senior housing sector, independent living remains one of the most attractive asset classes for long-term investors. This is a robust growth market: crisis-proof and independent from general economic trends. Above all, the market is... Read more
7 Jun 2021
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ESG is more than E
In the real estate industry, sustainability is increasingly becoming a necessary criterion for investments. New financial regulations are driving this development. The obligations under the EU Disclosure Regulation, which apply from this... Read more
20 May 2021
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Courage! A statement against real estate Angst
Here we go again, with a rash of various studies speculating on real estate bubbles, the great price decline and the end of the real estate boom in Germany's cities. Read more
5 May 2021
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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
