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Vacancy rate is rising especially in peripheral locations – Small, high-quality space remains scarce

Retail investments remain on track: dynamic market activity despite slight decline in sales

Even though the retail investment market reported a slight decline in revenue of around €4.1 billion at the end of the third quarter (-16% compared to Q1-3 2024), the lively transaction activity of the first half of the year has continued in recent months.

Colliers: Increasing portfolio momentum ensures solid results in the industrial and logistics real estate market

The transaction volume was EUR 4.0 billion, 11 percent below the previous year's level. Increasing momentum in the market can be observed above all through portfolio transactions and individual major transactions with volumes in excess of EUR 100 million.

Offices back at the top of the asset classes

After office investments had lost their dominant role as the most important asset class in the last two years, they have once again taken the lead in terms of transaction volume in the current year.

Colliers: Interest in large real estate awakened, the retail park segment remains dominant for the time being

The transaction volume amounted to 3.8 billion euros and is thus still on track for the previous year. In the third quarter, significantly brisk market activity was registered. Large-volume inner-city properties and food-anchored retail park portfolios are once again increasingly shaping market activity.

Logistics investment market: Lack of portfolio deals prevents better result

The logistics investment market recorded a transaction volume of €4.2 billion in the first nine months of 2025. Earnings at the end of the third quarter fell short of the long-term average (Ø 10 years: €5.2 billion) by just under 20%, but were only slightly below the level of the same period last year (-5%).

Great momentum is a long time coming – office leasing market on a cautious growth path

Take-up in the top 7 reached 2 million square metres, up 5 per cent on the previous year's figure. As expected, the vacancy rate continued to rise and now stands at 8.3 percent.

Colliers: Stable residential investment market in the third quarter of 2025

The transaction volume reached 6.5 billion euros, 13 percent higher than in the previous quarter, but 7 percent below the previous year's level. Individual transactions dominate the market, while portfolios account for only 13 percent.

Colliers: Investment market slowly works its way out of transformation phase towards recovery

The transaction volume on the residential and commercial investment market amounted to 23.7 billion euros, just missing the previous year's level. In the commercial segment, the strongest quarterly result since the beginning of the year was achieved.

Market recovery in residential investments continues

In the third quarter of 2025, the German residential investment market continued its market recovery from the first half of the year, although the momentum has recently weakened slightly.

Investment volume remains stable at previous year’s level

The stabilization of the investment markets has continued and is also reflected in the transaction volume of the first three quarters. With total sales of just under €23.8 billion, earnings are on a par with the previous year.

NAI apollo: German transaction market for residential portfolios marked by further stabilisation trends in summer 2025

At around EUR 2 billion, the transaction volume is on a par with the previous quarter, while the annual volume of EUR 6.3 billion exceeds the previous year's figure. Market activity is picking up especially in project developments and mid-range portfolio sizes.

German real estate investment market: slow recovery continues, but remains fragile

The German real estate investment market for commercial and residential real estate* has gained some momentum in recent months. In the 3rd quarter, the transaction volume amounted to just under EUR 7.6 billion, which was a fifth higher than in the previous quarter.

RQI Immobilien’s IVAR score analyzes the attractiveness of cities for high-yield real estate investments

The new assessment tool for opportunity-oriented real estate investments analyzes 405 German cities with 18,000 inhabitants or more. Offenbach, Potsdam and Mainz are considered Germany's real estate champions.

New study by Wüest Partner: CO₂ emissions are empirically proven drivers of real estate values for the first time

How does a building's CO₂ emissions affect its market value? A new study by Wüest Partner provides reliable empirical evidence for the first time.

Colliers Residential Report: Rising Demand and Shrinking Supply Drive Investment Business

Institutional and private investors are increasingly focusing on existing properties, ESG-compliant properties and portfolios. Transaction activity is expected to remain high in 2025/2026.

Office real estate: Is an investment still lucrative now?

The office sector is not currently very popular with institutional investors. Whether office properties are a discontinued model – or whether opportunities are emerging for investors from the market shakeout right now.

New dynamics: AI boom and low prices revive America’s metropolises

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NAI apollo: High market activity on the Frankfurt office leasing market also in the third quarter

Take-up of 455,600 square metres – record result within the last ten years

The heat is returning to the big cities: Residential weather map 2025 by BPD and bulwiengesa shows trend reversal

With the so-called living weather map, living trends and their changes are represented using a colour scale similar to a weather map. By the way, the hottest municipality this year is in Bichl in the district of Bad Tölz.

UK Water: A Contrarian View

UK Water is going through a public and investor relations nightmare. Water nowadays has the toughest PR amongst infrastructure sectors as the public tends to get much more emotional about water compared to other utilities.

German residential property can be a winner from new US tariff policy

Affordable housing is in short supply across Germany, particularly in urban areas, where demand far exceeds supply. This situation has been made worse by a sharp decline in new construction.

Housing market Germany 2025: Trend reversal so far has failed to materialize, prices are rising, opportunities in regional markets

Wüest Partner publishes new study format: Germany-wide analysis and in-depth look at 30 cities

Certified office space stock grows by a fifth in major cities

Existing buildings make a significant contribution to the increase – Frankfurt remains the frontrunner