Magazine

02.06.2022

Chart of the Month

Chart of the Month June: Fewer Project Developments

In the seven class A cities, the project volume now amounts to only 46.2 million sqm. This corresponds to a decline of 3.6 per cent compared to the first Corona year 2020. Trading development in particular is on the decline, while portfolio holders continue to build and plan diligently.
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02.05.2022

Chart of the Month

Chart of the Month May: Retail vacancy rates in German cities

How are retail vacancies developing? We have looked at the established retail locations in the metropolises of Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Munich and Cologne. We regularly survey the retail stock there and thus also the vacancy rate. The analysis shows: Vacancy rates have increased most significantly in the top retail locations.
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06.04.2022

Background, Residential

Update hotel real estate

After two years of emergency, the hotel market is still far from pre-crisis levels. Now the situation seems to be improving in slow steps, even if the industry is still wavering between hope and fear
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04.04.2022

Background

Six recommendations for commercial real estate

As "real estate wise men", we looked at office, corporate, logistics and hotel real estate for the Spring Report. And we made six recommendations for politics and business. Three of these recommendations have to do with sustainability
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01.04.2022

Chart of the Month

Chart of the month April: Share deals are the reality

Share deals are politically controversial, as no real estate transfer tax is payable on the purchase of large real estate portfolios. According to our off-market study for HPBA, about six out of ten transactions take the form of a share deal
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14.03.2022

Background, Residential

Run on terraced houses

The 46th bulwiengesa Property Market Index shows: Prices have been rising for 17 years. Compared to the previous year, prices have risen by 4.6 percent, an increase of one percentage point. Terraced houses are particularly popular, and commercial properties have also risen massively in price.
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07.03.2022

Background

There would be enough money

There is a lack of administrative and functional buildings, day-care centres, schools or nursing homes; in addition, the refurbishment backlog and investment arrears add up to billions. On the other hand, investors are looking for sustainable investment opportunities. With the short study "Public Infrastructure Real Estate", we have investigated the demand for different types of real estate for the Barton Group and Audere Gesellschaftsimmobilien.
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01.03.2022

Chart of the Month

March: The Office Love

The general conditions on the capital market have not changed significantly in 2021. Private and institutional capital is still looking for risk-adequate investment opportunities. German commercial real estate thus remained in high demand in 2021.
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04.02.2022

Office

Home office is not the end of all offices

The pandemic is affecting the office property market - but how? Discussions often focus on the topic of home offices and the change of workplace concepts. But other factors weigh more heavily
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02.02.2022

Chart of the Month

February: No bend, on the contrary

Property prices have been rising in Germany for 17 years - without interruption. Compared to the previous year, growth has even increased again in 2021, to 4.6 percent. However, the differences between the segments are large
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