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Artificial Intelligence and Real Estate: New Market Opportunities through DeepSeek Revolution

Artificial intelligence (AI) has reached a new phase: The breakthrough of the Chinese startup DeepSeek shows that sophisticated AI models can now be realized with significantly lower costs and computing capacities. This lowers the barriers to entry for new players and increases competition in the AI sector. As a result, AI technologies could gain a foothold in various industries faster than expected and unleash their economic benefits. But what does this mean for the real estate industry? Our report sheds light on the impact on different sectors and shows where investors could benefit most.

Office Property Study: The Concepts of Tomorrow

Office properties must adapt to the new hybrid working environments and redefine themselves accordingly. Which trends investors should keep an eye on.

Sustainable increase in value in the real estate portfolio – a string restructuring in practice

More than half of German apartments date from a time when energy efficiency was not an issue. Anyone working with such properties today has two options: renovate or lose. At Domicil, the decision to include a property in the portfolio therefore follows a clear strategy – with a view to the entire life cycle. Reality, however, shows that the perfect property rarely exists.

Role of Mezzanine Debt in Real Asset Financing: Introduction, European Market, and Impact of Interest Rates

Mezzanine debt plays a crucial role in real asset financing, being particularly useful in large-scale real estate developments, infrastructure projects, and energy assets, where capital requirements exceed the limits of senior lenders but where owners prefer to limit equity dilution.

Office renovation volume at record level

For the second time, we have analysed the renovation activities in the office segment in the German A-cities. The latest edition of the apoprojekt Inventory Compass shows that the importance of existing properties continues to increase – and with it the volume of renovations.

Secondaries protect against imminent outflows of funds

The investment environment for real estate funds has changed due to interest rate hikes and outflows, putting institutional special funds under pressure. Secondary markets offer a solution to trade fund units flexibly and maintain stability. Buyers and sellers benefit from a liquid, regulated trading venue.

BESS in Germany 2025 and Beyond: Use Cases, Business Models and Financing Considerations

How data center designers are mastering AI-driven additional energy requirements

The demand for more and more available capacity is growing rapidly – and with it the demand for energy. How data center developers are mastering this challenge and which innovative solutions are shaping the future.

Entering the next cycle now?

How the residential real estate market is stabilizing after the crisis and what opportunities are emerging for investors

Sustainable logistics halls: The path to environmentally and socially responsible construction

37% of global CO2 emissions are related to energy and operational processes in the construction sector. Solutions for a change of perspective using the example of logistics real estate.

Energy storage on the rise: Growing demand for land

With the goal of becoming climate-neutral by 2045 using renewable energies, energy storage systems are rapidly gaining in importance. This also increases the demand for corresponding plots of land and offers owners attractive sales opportunities.

Special AIFs as Secondaries: The Time for Secondary Markets Has Come

The secondary market for special funds is gaining in importance and offers investors flexible entry and exit options. Secondaries offer attractive opportunities, especially for real estate – now is the right time to take advantage of this market.

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In the first part of our 2025 private credit outlook, we offered a broad overview of the prospects for the asset class over the next 12 months. Now, we assess some sectors in a little more depth – namely infrastructure and real estate.

Income and impact: Opportunities in affordable housing

Why we see a potential opportunity for private institutional capital to work in partnership with the public sector to address the UK's affordable housing needs.

Cradle to Cradle® – Houses like trees, cities like forests

If buildings are built according to the Cradle to Cradle® principle, they become long-lasting raw material depots that return resources in a targeted manner. Just like in nature, where waste is not left behind, but becomes nutrients for something new.

Investing in Green Hydrogen: Market Trends & Price Forecasts

How will the production and customer markets develop, and what influence will this have on the future price of "green hydrogen"?

DATA CENTER: STATUS QUO AND PERSPECTIVES

The demand for data centers is increasing – they have now developed into an attractive and high-performance asset class. Advancing digitalization in all areas of life and business is causing the need for data centers to continue to increase.

REPOSITIONING: WHICH REAL ESTATE REUSE MAKES SENSE?

In today's podcast episode, we want to deal with one of the trending topics of recent years: repositioning. Together with Andreas Völker and Christian Hotz, we clarify why this topic is currently so relevant and which subsequent use actually makes sense.

The most important trends in real estate management for 2025

The real estate industry is on the verge of change: sustainability, digitalization and data-driven decisions will shape the development of real estate management in 2025.

enfinium and the Carbon Capture Question

Simon Montague and Mike Maudsley explore the highly innovative, highly debated and highly complex opportunity for the energy transition that could be made possible using Carbon Capture and Storage technology.

Beyond the energy certificate: Circularity Passport

The Circularity Passports® Building or material passport records building products and materials, their ecological footprint, recyclability and the value of the materials used.

On the way to becoming a circular city

Heidelberg wants to become a circular city. In the Patrick Henry Village pilot project, urban mining is to be practiced in existing buildings. The starting point was set with the Urban Mining Screener program developed by EPEA and the Madaster building database.

Beware of tax traps

The fact that the customs authorities – the "weapon-carrying troop of the tax administration", so to speak – stood at the door of some companies unannounced in the run-up to Christmas must have caused some red-hot faces.

New opportunities and a 2-class society on the office market!

The office segment has lost favor with investors. Weak economy, geopolitical crises and changed working environments are the main reasons. Nevertheless, a distinction should be made as to which offices meet the requirements of users and investors in the long term