BulwienGesa
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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
BulwienGesa
Record year for light industrial
Light industrial deals hit a new high in Germany last year at €3bn, a 27% increase on the former record in 2015, according to a report published this month by Bulwiengesa, ‘Initiative Unternehmensimmobilien 2H 2017’. Read more
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Weak start for sentiment among German finance providers
It’s not been a strong start to the year for sentiment among German property finance providers, according to the monthly BF.Quarterly Barometer, the index published by BF.direkt AG, the Stuttgart-based project financing specialist... Read more
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Stationary retail is ‘not a write-off’
Despite fierce competition from e-commerce, stationary retail is ‘not a write-off’ just yet, according to a study published this month by consultancy BulwienGesa. Read more
BulwienGesa
German ‘Champion Regions’ offer better risk/return profile than ‘Top 7’ counterparts
Germany’s Top 30 ‘Champions Regions’ offer a more attractive risk/return profile than the country’s ‘Big 7’ office markets, according to a study published this month by German investment manager Accom. Read more
Friedemann Weck - ADO Properties
Mietpreisbremse battle taken to Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court
Berlin’s Landgericht, or District Court, has taken Germany’s Mietpreisbremse to the Bundesverfassungsgericht (the Federal Constitutional Court) this month, marking the latest step in a protracted battle to have Germany’s much-maligned rental brake... Read more
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Positive outlook for German offices as prime yields stabilise
The future of German offices looks rosy, according to a survey carried out this autumn by Freiburg-based Center for Real Estate Studies (CRES) and Gesellschaft für Immobilienwirtschaftliche Forschung (gif). Read more
BF.Direkt
Sentiment among German lenders reaches annual high
Sentiment among German lenders has reached an annual high, in a sign that lenders are moving towards 2018 in a positive mood, according to the latest BF.Quarterly Barometer published this month. Read more
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Zoning of building land the big bottleneck for affordable housing
The biggest obstacle to the provision of more affordable new housing in Germany's biggest cities is the lack of suitable sites and a flawed building regulatory framework, according to the country's Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban... Read more
Alpha Industrial
Alpha Industrial to double its warehouse portfolio to 700,000 sqm
German industrial property developer and investor Alpha Industrial plans to double its own very sizeable logistics portfolio from currently 350,000 sqm to 700,000 sqm, while raising its rental income and giving itself greater protection from the... Read more