According to a recent report by Savills, rising defence spending and new NATO commitments will lead to a significant increase in demand for industrial and logistics real estate across Europe and the UK.
Investor and developer confidence is increasing, with 41% of users expecting to expand their warehouse space next year, up 12 percentage points from last year.
The energy efficiency classes of commercial real estate in Europe are only comparable to a limited extent. Savills points this out in a recent article as part of the Impacts publication series.
According to Savills' latest Takes Stock Global Capital Markets Report, global real estate transaction volume amounted to $380 billion in the first half of 2025. This is largely in line with the level of the first half of 2024.
According to Savills' latest Impacts study, global e-commerce sales are expected to reach $4.8 trillion in 2025, with $1 trillion worth of goods expected to be returned.
According to Savills, average prime yields for office properties in Europe fell by 5 basis points (bps) in the second quarter of 2025. This means that offices remain the most heavily traded sector in the region.
According to a recent analysis by the international real estate consultancy Savills, investment volumes in the European nursing home market have recovered significantly in the second half of 2024 and in the course of 2025 so far.
According to Savills, average prime office yields in Europe compressed by 5 basis points (bps) and offices remained the most transacted sector in the region.
The specialist courier service provider in the premium segment World Courier has leased around 800 m² of office space and 1,600 m² of logistics space in the Ammerkamp industrial park in Kirchheim and is expected to move into the location at Ammerthalstraße 2-32 at the beginning of 2026.
The owner of the new office space is a private investor. Savills acted as an advisor to the tenant throughout the brokerage process, while the landlord was advised by CBRE.
According to Savills, in the 1st half of 2025, around 2.1 billion euros were turned over on the Berlin real estate investment market. Compared to the same period last year, this corresponds to a decrease of 43%.
According to Savills, around 414 million euros were turned over in the Düsseldorf real estate investment market in the 1st half of 2025. Compared to the same period last year, this corresponds to a decrease of 48%. Compared to the 10-year average, sales were 65% lower.
According to Savills, around 248 million euros were turned over on the Frankfurt real estate investment market in the 1st half of 2025. Compared to the same period last year, this corresponds to a decrease of 58%.
According to Savills, around 980 million euros were turned over in the Munich real estate investment market in the 1st half of 2025. Compared to the same period last year, this corresponds to a decline of 27%. Compared to the 10-year average, sales were even 54% lower.
According to Savills, around 891 million euros were turned over on the Hamburg real estate investment market in the 1st half of 2025. Compared to the same period of the previous year, this corresponds to an increase of 17%. Compared to the 10-year average, sales were 56% lower.
In the first half of 2025, the office letting market in Frankfurt recorded take-up of 340,100 m². This was 93.9% higher than in the first half of 2024. Compared to the 10-year average of the 1st half of the year, sales increased by 73%.
In the first half of 2025, take-up on the Düsseldorf office letting market was around 98,700 m². This was a decrease of 11.3% compared with the same period a year earlier. Compared to the ten-year average, sales were around a third lower.
In the first half of 2025, take-up in Hamburg's office letting market amounted to 207,000 m². Compared to the same period last year, this corresponds to an increase of 9.8%. In contrast to the ten-year average, however, it was about 15% lower.
In the first half of 2025, the office letting market in Cologne achieved take-up of around 115,600 m², which corresponds to an increase of 73.8% compared to the first half of 2024. Despite the significant growth, sales were still about 17% below the ten-year average.
In the first half of 2025, take-up of 286,500 m² was registered on the Munich office letting market. This was 10.4% higher than in the same period of the previous year.
In the first half of 2025, take-up on the Berlin office letting market amounted to 248,000 m². This represents a decrease of 17.2% compared to the same period last year.
According to Savills, the transaction volume in healthcare and social real estate in the 1st half of the current year amounted to just under EUR 920 million, an increase of more than 130% compared to the first half of the previous year.
In the first half of 2025, the top 6 office markets* recorded take-up of around 1.3 million m², 17.8% above the level of the same period last year - but a decrease of 9.1% compared to the average of the past ten years.
According to Savills, the transaction volume with office properties in the 1st half of the current year amounted to just under EUR 1.9 billion, which corresponds to a decline of around one third compared to the 1st half of the previous year.
According to Savills, around 2.1 billion euros were traded on the market for industrial and logistics real estate in the 1st half of 2025. Compared to the same period last year, this corresponds to a decrease of 33%. Compared to the 10-year average, sales were even 41% lower.
In the 1st half of 2025, commercial and residential real estate* changed hands on the German real estate investment market for around EUR 13.3 billion. Compared to the same period last year, this represents a decrease of 13%.
The demand for high-quality, flexibly usable housing for students in Germany remains high. As a recent publication by Savills shows, there is attractive investment potential in the area of student housing.
According to Savills' latest analysis, French SCPIs* are increasingly investing outside their home market – with other European countries as the main beneficiaries.
In its latest Global Capital Markets Reports, Savills has examined the likely short- and long-term impact of recent macroeconomic and geopolitical uncertainties.
According to the latest Savills study, the investment volume for logistics real estate in Europe reached €38.2 billion in 2024, an increase of 15% compared to the previous year. This result is mainly due to a robust end to the year.
In the first quarter of 2025, European office space take-up reached 1.9 million m², according to the latest analysis by Savills, which corresponds to an increase of four percent compared to the previous year. Savills expects an increase of 5% year-on-year for the full year 2025.
With eresult GmbH and KAMANO GmbH, two IT service providers operating throughout Germany, will jointly move into around 400 m² of office space in GEREON in Cologne's old town on August 1, 2025.
Duolingo Inc., an EdTech company specializing in playful, AI-supported language learning, has moved into an office space of around 460 m² at Rotherstraße 17 in Berlin-Friedrichshain.
Chronext GmbH has leased around 1,000 m² of office space in the "Butzweiler Stern" at Butzweilerhof-Allee 2-4 in Cologne. In total, the "Butzweiler Stern" office complex in the northern Cologne district of Ossendorf has 24,000 m² of modern office space.
Rental growth for prime office space* worldwide accelerated in the first quarter of 2025. Rents rose by 0.6% on average compared to the previous quarter, after an increase of 0.3% in the fourth quarter of 2024, Savills said.
From a fair value perspective*, the Madrid market and the Central Business District (CBD) of Paris are currently the most attractively valued European office markets, reports Savills.
On the German real estate investment market, commercial and residential real estate* changed hands for around EUR 34.6 billion in the past twelve months.
According to the latest study by Savills, European real estate investment volume is expected to exceed €50 billion in the first quarter of 2025, an increase of 28% compared to the previous year.
according to Savills' latest European Logistics Outlook, total investment reached €37.9 billion in 2024, up 14% from 2023 and the fifth-strongest year in history, just behind 2019.
The five-storey building, located between the centre and the Stadtgarten, was built in 1984 and has a diversified tenant structure. The seller of the property is MEAG.
The recovery extends beyond individual markets and regions and is not limited to specific sectors. The volume of
office investment also increased by 7% compared to the previous year.
According to a Savills survey of real estate investors with total assets under management (AuM) of over €800 billion, more than half of respondents plan to invest in real estate in Europe and the Middle East in 2025.
According to Savills, preliminary data suggests that real estate investment volume in Europe was about €53 billion in Q4 2024. This represents an increase of 31% compared to Q4 2023.
The German commercial real estate investment market recorded a turnover of around EUR 24.4 billion in 2024, an increase of 9% compared to the previous year.
The transaction volume on the investment market for residential real estate amounted to approx. EUR 8.8 billion in 2024. This corresponds to an increase of 14% compared to the same period last year.
The German investment market for industrial real estate recorded a turnover of around 6.9 billion euros in 2024, which represents an increase of one fifth compared to the previous year.
Two new tenants for the mix-use property at Arnulfstraße 199 in Munich. A dance studio will move into around 270 m² on the ground floor and a non-food discounter has secured an area of around 1,100 m².
