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Corona Real Estate Index shows stabilization of personnel, materials
One useful index which we’re tracking here at REFIRE is the so-called Corona Real Estate Index, organized and collated by industry network baumonitoring.com which gathers data from currently 100 market participants providing information on about... Read more
13 May 2020
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Recovery will drag most heavily on retail sector - report
The first quarter of the year seems a long way ago now, while the full horrors of the year’s second quarter are still unfolding in Europe’s commercial property markets. While almost any estimate as to how the figures will pan out is by definition hig Read more
12 May 2020
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Banks expecting slump in demand for housing loans
Germany’s banks are now definitely expecting a sharp decline in demand for private housing loans in the coming three months, according to the Bundesbank. At the same time, given the uncertainty surrounding jobs and businesses, they are tightening... Read more
11 May 2020
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INREV German Vehicles Index returns 4.89%, above 5-year average
INREV has just released the results of its German Vehicles Annual Index, which shows that the index returned 4.89% in 2019, up from the 4.30% seen in 2018 and well above the 5-year average of 3.88%. Read more
11 May 2020
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Pfandbrief-issuing banks feeling pressure of rental, repayment shortfalls
Germany’s Pfandbrief-issuing banks are likely to have to re-schedule a good chunk of their lending, as failed rent payments due to the coronavirus will take a toll on repayments on their lending, said their association... Read more
8 May 2020
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German residential prices hold steady so far - studies
The price level for German residential housing has remained so far unchanged since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, according to German consulting group F+B, whose CEO Bernd Leutner warned it would be wrong to make premature and knee-jerk... Read more
8 May 2020
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Developers continue pulling back from new A-city projects
The volume of new real estate project developments in Germany’s seven biggest cities rose slightly last year by 1.1%, largely thanks to commercial property projects rather than residential, which fell back, according to the latest annual study... Read more
8 May 2020
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Little likelihood of residential price collapse - IW study
A new study released by the Cologne-based Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft (IW) offers a fairly benign prognosis for the likely trajectory of German real estate prices, with property prices across Germany's 50 largest cities falling only... Read more
30 Apr 2020
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Sentiment barometer plunges to record low, as bank margins rise
Not surprisingly, given the current climate, the BF.Quarterly Barometer for Q2 2020, which measures sentiment in the German professional real estate market, plumbed all-time record low depths in its latest market reading. Read more
29 Apr 2020
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German mortgage rates at all-time low - was this the turning point?
For those in Germany who are confident enough to plan for financing a property over the coming years, despite the current uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic, interest rates have reached an all-time low. Read more
16 Apr 2020
