The results of the CBRE analysis are based on a representative sample of 2.1 million housing units. Energy-efficient renovations are becoming increasingly necessary due to economic incentives and legal requirements.
CBRE has brokered a commercial property in Maintal to Deutsche TGS GmbH, a Vonovia subsidiary. This combination underscores Maintal's attractiveness as a business location and strengthens Vonovia's presence in the region.
The new-build property, which was completed in 2025, is fully let to a manufacturer of automation technologies. The landlord of the approximately 1,500 sqm, high-quality office and hall space is Rothenberger Real Estates / Frankfurt am Main.
CBRE has advised the law firm Pinsent Masons on the lease of a new office in the Central Business District of Düsseldorf. The law firm will move into its new premises in the Benrath Karree from August 2026.
The demand for data center capacities for artificial intelligence in Europe has increased sharply in recent years, more than tripling compared to the previous year. This development shows the growing interest and investment in AI technologies on the continent.
Sirius Real Estate Ltd has bought Hamburg's Hansa Gewerbe Zentrum business park for around 32 million euros. The real estate service provider CBRE and Quest Investment Partners supported the seller Erck Rickmers in the transaction.
Global real estate services provider CBRE has advised Finnish paper group UPM on the sale of a 52-hectare plot of land in Plattling in the district of Deggendorf.
take-up of 370,300 square metres* in the first three quarters of 2025 – 40 per cent more than in the same period last year. Production companies with a share of 52 percent of take-up over the course of the year.
The transaction volume reached 1.5 billion euros in the first three quarters of 2025, an increase of 50 percent compared to the same period last year. At the same time, the prime yield has remained stable at 5.25 percent since the end of 2023.
The American restaurant chain Starbucks will open a branch in the first quarter of 2026 on a sales area of around 200 square meters in the Mülheim-Kärlich industrial park. The landlord is a private owner. CBRE acted as an intermediary for both sides.
The fashion retailer Snipes is taking over the approximately 425 sqm sales area of JD-Sports in the Mülheim-Kärlich industrial park. JD-Sports had closed its branch at Industriestraße 53a in July of this year. The opening of Snipes is planned for 17.10.2025.
CBRE has supported Cabot Properties in the expansion of its German logistics portfolio by providing active advice. As in 2024, CBRE has now once again advised Cabot on four transactions, which together have a volume of around 70 million euros and an area of more than 55,000 square metres.
In total, the site comprises 25,200 m² of office and laboratory space and offers space for 800 employees. The developer and landlord is AUG. PRIEN project development, while Captiva was the initiator of the transformation of the site.
Mandarin Oriental International Limited, the listed parent company of Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group ("MOHG"), announced that it has entered into an agreement with Eagle Hills to sell its shares in Mandarin Oriental in Munich.
The global real estate service provider CBRE has brokered 600 square meters in Hamburg's Hanseviertel to ZARA Home. The interior brand of the Spanish fashion group Inditex will open the prominently located area at the small rotunda before the end of this year.
After a solid start to the year, the industrial and logistics real estate market in North Rhine-Westphalia recorded a decline of 14 per cent in the first half of the year as a whole, with take-up of 609,000 square metres compared to the same period last year.
In the first half of 2025, Munich's industrial and logistics real estate market achieved take-up of 44,300 square metres. This was 56 percent below the result of the same period last year.
The industrial and logistics real estate market in Central Germany recorded take-up of 235,300 square metres in the first half of 2025, 53 per cent higher than in the same period of the previous year.
Hamburg's industrial and logistics real estate market achieved take-up of 230,500 square metres in the first half of 2025. This corresponds to an increase of 89 percent compared to the same period last year.
The Berlin industrial and logistics real estate market achieved take-up of 217,500 square metres in the first half of 2025. This means that it exceeded the take-up of space in the same period of the previous year by 72 per cent.
At 2.1 billion euros, investments in the German office real estate investment market were made in the first half of 2025, around 23 percent less than in the same period last year.
According to a recent survey by global real estate service provider CBRE, lenders in the professional real estate market in Europe are planning to expand their lending in 2025. Almost 80 percent of the institutions surveyed want to increase their activities.
