What uses are likely to be envisaged here? In general, respondents prefer privately financed flats, retail for periodic needs and offices.

Sustainability Creates Favourable Conditions for Transformation

Not every existing property "functions" anymore. What to do? Demolish and rebuild or transform and reuse? We asked around 200 experienced players and, together with Union Investment, have now published the second market analysis on transformation properties.

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Some may wish for a parachute at the moment in view of the upheavals.

Mixed risks

Twice a year we prepare economic forecasts and derive key figures for the various real estate segments. According to this, the caesuras in the economy affect the logistics, residential, office and retail segments very differently. In general, the picture is not as gloomy as it is often conveyed. A summary

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Chart of the Month December: Office market better than expected

In the coming years, high volumes of newly completed offices will again come onto the market. Vacancy rates are rising, but not to a critical extent. Landlords and tenants can negotiate at eye level again

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Amsterdam is considered one of the cities with the highest quality of life worldwide. The city is also at the top of the study's housing market scoring.

Germany, France, Netherlands - where to invest?

Where are there still attractive investment opportunities in the office and residential market in Germany - and outside? For the three-country study that we published together with Becken and INDUSTRIA, we also looked at the major French and Dutch markets

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Investor study

For Akquireal, we have analysed the purchase profiles of real estate investors.

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The 5 % Study 2022 - where it still pays off to invest

bulwiengesa has analyzed the potential returns of the German real estate markets for the eighth time.

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The fear-mongering in public discussions does not make it easy to keep a cool head. After many overheated real estate years, now comes the "back to normal".

No Panic!

The shocks in the global economy are having an impact on the real estate market. Inflation rates have been rising since the end of 2021 and it has become obvious that the lax monetary policy will have to come to an end quickly. However, we should beware of hastily constructed crash scenarios.

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Chart of the Month July: Ruhr Area bucks the trend

Across Germany, the market for project developments is under scrutiny. Nevertheless, the project development volume in the Ruhr region will increase by around 7 % between 2020 and 2022 - and the pipelines are still full.

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The ZIA hands over the spring report to politicians, 2022 to Klara Geywitz, Federal Minister for Housing, Urban Development and Building

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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Chart of the Month – March 2022

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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