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German cities are ‘absolutely overpriced’ - report
German cities are becoming too expensive for many investors, in a sign that they are not prepared to pay absolutely any price for prime assets, according to PwC’s ‘Emerging Trends in Real Estate Europe 2019’ report, published this month. Read more
Dr. Thomas Beyerle
Student housing deals to hit €1.5bn this year
Student housing transactions are on track to hit €1.5b in Germany this year, up from just €250m five years ago, Dr. Thomas Beyerle, head of group research at Catella, told REFIRE this month. Read more
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Car parks shape up for the times
Car parks are undergoing something of a shake up. On the way out are the dingy inner-city car parks most of us are familiar with, set to be replaced with ‘crucial hubs for a wide range of services, which also increases the importance of... Read more
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Record year in prospect for Serviced Apartment market
Thomas Beyerle's research team over at international property advisers Catella have produced an interesting report on the market for serviced apartments, that hybrid form of residential use so beloved of the professional classes when... Read more
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Patrizia Immobilien acquires a 300-unit residential portfolio
Patrizia Immobilien has acquired a residential portfolio comprising 300 student and business apartments in Leipzig and Mainz for €33m on behalf of a separate account mandate from an unnamed German pension fund. Read more
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German residential yields tighten further
German prime residential yields have tightened to just 4.7% on average, compared to 5.1% in 2017, according to Catella Research this month. Read more
Dr. Thomas Beyerle
Exchange-traded funds expected to win over investors in 2018
Real estate exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are expected to win over investors next year, according to Catella’s latest Market Tracker, ‘Strategic Real Estate Allocation: on the way to a new world?’. Read more
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Catella launches €500m affordable German housing fund
Catella Real Estate AG, the investment management company of listed Swedish group Catella AB, has launched a new open-ended fund to invest in affordable German housing. The fund has already made its first investment, an apartment building in Mainz... Read more
Dr. Thomas Beyerle
Sustainable real estate funds to grow to €3.2b by 2018
Sustainable real estate funds are on the rise, according to Catella’s latest market tracker ‘Sustainable funds in the real estate industry – a look at Europe’, published this month. Read more
Dr. Tim Schomberg
Catella launches open-ended fund with church-backed banks
Catella Real Estate has launched an open-ended sustainable private real estate fund together in conjunction with the Bank im Bistum Essen (BIB) and the Bank für Kirche und Diakonie (KD-Bank). Read more
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Asset Class: Car Parks
Car parks are coming to the fore as a potential asset class, although still a niche product. Europe has about 300 million public parking spaces and 48,000 multi-storey car parks. But the market is highly fragmented, with a huge range of different... Read more
Dr. Thomas Beyerle
German housing sees strong demand, price and rent rises ahead
German residential property is headed for still further price rises and higher rents, and investors into the sector are still being drawn into targeted investment into the lesser-known towns and cities outside the most popular urban centres... Read more
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Catella alliance with Strutt & Parker seen as bridging London gap
Every time we passed the Catella stand at the MIPIM in Cannes recently in the hope of exchanging a few words with the company’s German management team, we could see that Catella German boss Klaus Franken had his head buried deep in discussion with... Read more