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Investment flashpoint and shortfall of apartments does not amount to a housing crisis
In a report contrasting the current situation on the German residential market with a genuine housing emergency in the immediate post-war period, Dr. Günter Vornholz, Professor of real estate economics at the EBZ Business School in Bochum, argues... Read more
18 Oct 2019
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Office yields to keep falling driven by debt and equity availability
The latest outlook for European Commercial Property from research group Capital Economics contains a good piece written by senior property economist Kiran Raichura in a new update, which suggests that widespread availability of debt and equity... Read more
9 Oct 2019
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Germany gears up for biggest portfolio deal of the year
Germany is gearing up for the biggest portfolio sale of the year, as BNP Paribas Real Estate puts life insurance portfolio manager Viridium Gruppe’s €2bn Milennium portfolio on the market. Read more
8 Oct 2019
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Logistics deals highlight strength of key German hub locations
Apart from Blackstone’s mega-plans with its Mileway project (see elsewhere in this issue), there were several other notable German logistics deals throughout September, both by experienced German hands and new foreign debutants putting down their mar Read more
7 Oct 2019
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7th German Debt Project study show bank margins recovering slowly
The seventh edition of the study “German Debt Project” carried out by Professor Tobias Just and his team at the IREBS International Real Estate Business School has just been published – this year a little bit later than usual. Read more
4 Oct 2019
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Falling numbers of German tenants now striving for home ownership
Although it is regularly assumed that all Germany’s hard-working citizens are striving hard to buy their own property, a new – perhaps surprising – study from Interhyp, one of Germany’s largest private mortgage facilitators, shows... Read more
3 Oct 2019
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€13bn wave of terminations by 2021 to put further pressure on markets
The INREV Funds Termination Study 2019 reveals that 50 European closed-end non-listed real estate funds are scheduled to terminate by 2021, releasing a potential €13.2 billion of assets back onto the market. Read more
3 Oct 2019
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Sale-and-leasebacks: are they making a comeback?
Sale-and-leasebacks, once a staple of European real estate markets, seemed to have largely disappeared in recent years. Could they now be set to make a comeback? Read more
1 Oct 2019
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Top picks: what topics will dominate at EXPO REAL this year?
Global politics, from the US-China trade war to the ongoing misery of Brexit, are likely to be on the agenda at EXPO REAL this year. REFIRE talked to industry experts to find out what other issues are likely to dominate the trade fair this time. Read more
30 Sep 2019
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German property shares rebound as drastic rent cap plans withdrawn
After weeks in which hundreds of millions were wiped off the value of listed German real estate companies, trading on the last day of August saw powerful rebounds in the share prices of leading German companies with exposure to the residential... Read more
27 Sep 2019
