BulwienGesa
Patrizia
Private investors upping exposure to residential development market as develop and hold segment set to grow to €40 bn
Private investors are homing in on Germany’s residential development market, with the ‘develop and hold’ segment predicted to grow to €40 bn over the next few years. Read more
kenishirotie
Off-Market deals survey highlights interest in avoiding bidding wars
Last year at about this time we reported on the first study on ‘off-market’ real estate deals, carried out by Berlin-based off-market specialist HPBA and market research group Bulwiengesa. Read more
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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
BulwienGesa
Institutional investors ramp up exposure to development
Institutional investors are turning to development to boost their portfolios, against a background of dwindling investment opportunities in Germany. Read more
Corpus Sireo
DEMIRE boosts FFO by 40%, raises full-year forecast
In March this year, REFIRE published an article about the latest study by DEMIRE Deutsche Mittelstand Real Estate AG, the listed commercial property investor focused on secondary German cities, carried out by market researcher BulwienGesa. The... Read more
Cushman & Wakefield @ Daft Media Limited
Which city lies between Darmstadt and Koblenz? Answer: Dublin
A recent study by Union Investment and BulwienGesa asked this question: for investors in student accommodation, which cities are most attractive? Read more
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Germany’s investable hotel market hits record high
The size of Germany’s investable hotel market has hit a record high of €57.5b, marking an increase of almost 10% last year, according to research published this month by Union Investment and Bulwiengesa. Read more
Moritz Sirowatka
Study highlights potential of investment in Germany’s C-cities
Augsburg, Offenbach and Darmstadt offer the most attractive perspectives for property investors in Germany, from the point of view of low market risk and above average yields. What they also have in common is that they are mid-sized cities... Read more
Corpus Sireo
DEMIRE study highlights robustness of secondary German office markets
DEMIRE Deutsche Mittelstand Real Estate AG, the listed commercial property investor focused on secondary German cities, published its third annual study this week - “Office Market: Investment Opportunities in German Secondary Locations”. Read more
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High urban prices pushing up property in big city hinterlands
The latest monthly report from the Bundesbank deals with housing prices outside the biggest German cities, and concludes that while price rises have slowed in the big cities, they have been gathering pace in urban hinterlands. Read more
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High demand and rising costs keep pushing up Berlin residential prices
As with its office market (see article elsewhere in this issue – “Berlin office market outperforms its German counterparts”),Berlin continues to be the pacemaker for investors in Germany’s residential housing market, with transaction volumes doubling Read more
Motel One GmbH
Cooling in German hotel market – but individual deals still strong
After several boom years on the German hotel market, things are cooling down, particularly in respect of larger portfolio deals, although figures in from Q3 suggest that interest in individual hotel properties remains buoyant. Read more
Bulwiengesa AG
Where can you still get a 5% yield in German real estate?
Where can you still get a 5% yield in German real estate? That’s the question being asked for the last four years in an annual study published and presented by market research group BulwienGesa and supported by lawyers Beiten Burkhardt and... Read more
HPBA GmbH
German off-market transactions higher than expected
A new study shows that the number of so-called ‘off-market’ real estate deals in Germany is considerably higher than previously assumed, with investors prepared to pay a premium to avoid the time and expense of structured sales processes... Read more
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No sign of let-up in booming student and micro housing market
The boom in investment into the student and micro-housing market in German shows no sign of any let-up, with transaction volume for the first half of the year up a whopping 224% to more than €1.6bn, shows the latest study by property brokers CBRE. Read more
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Capital Bay snatches top team to launch new micro-living resi platform
Fast-growing Berlin-based investment and asset manager Capital Bay is setting up its own platform to move into the micro-living segment of the residential property market. The new company, called CB Micro Living GmbH... Read more
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German investable hotel market to hit new high of €56b in 2018
Germany’s investment-grade hotel market is expected to hit a new high of €56bn by the end of this year, according to Dierk Freitag, a partner at consultancy Bulwiengesa, in a sign of just how rampant growth in the sector has become. Read more
BulwienGesa
Swiss Life snaps up BEOS as focus on industrial remains undimmed
Insurance group Swiss Life has swooped to buy BEOS AG, Germany's leading investor in mixed-use industrial real estate, for an undisclosed price. The move is designed to support Swiss Life Asset Managers' third party business... Read more
BF.Direkt
Further plunge in German financing sentiment to five-year low
There has been yet a further significant decline in sentiment among German property finance providers according to the BF.Quarterly Barometer. Sentiment has dropped from 0.23 to -0.98 points in the second quarter of 2018, the lowest barometer... Read more
Instone Real Estate Group B.V.
Project development market stagnates for first time since financial crisis
Germany’s project development market is stagnating for first time since the financial crisis, as rising costs put the brakes on growth in many major cities, according to Bulwiengesa’s‘Project Developer Study 2018’, published this month. Read more
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Bulwiengesa
Office developers trading and investor development
Office developers trading and investor development, German A cities in 2019, in thsd. sqm
