Take-up increased by 72 per cent year-on-year to 217,500 square metres
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. Without Tesla’s exceptional deal in 2022, take-up is thus at the level of the past five and ten first half of the year. By contrast, take-up within the city limits declined, falling by 71 per cent to 23,800 square metres. These are the results of a recent analysis by the global real estate service provider CBRE.
“After the two weak first half of the previous two years, there has now been a significant upturn, especially in the second quarter, which almost reaches the average level of the last 10 years,” says Colette Bodendorf, Team Leader Industrial & Logistics Berlin at CBRE. For example, the share of take-up attributable to new buildings rose significantly by 43 percentage points to 56 percent compared to the first half of 2024. In the same period, the big-box vacancy rate fell by 0.9 percentage points to 8.5 percent. “However, the picture is not only one-sided, because new, speculative projects are about to be completed,” says Bodendorf.
The largest share of take-up was accounted for by retail companies (including online retailers) at 64 percent, which corresponds to an increase of 23 percentage points. Manufacturing companies followed in second place with 23 percent (down four percentage points), followed by transport and logistics companies with a share of ten percent of take-up (down seven percentage points).
Outlook for the rest of the year
“There are still various applications on the market, so that take-up of around 350,000 square metres is expected for the year as a whole,” says Bodendorf.
