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Colliers: Hotel investments on the road to recovery – first half of 2025 significantly above the level of previous years

According to Colliers, the German hotel investment market reached a transaction volume of around 830 million euros in the first half of 2025. The market thus continued its recovery.

Logistics leasing market stable at the end of the first half of the year with an upward trend

Global challenges could become an opportunity for Germany as a business location

Shortage of supply for student housing leads to high rents

Student housing moves into the focus of investors

Unchanged key interest rate: assessment by Annika Steiner, Partner at Wüest Partner

The ECB is leaving the key interest rate at 2.00 percent, signaling that it is waiting for the time being. It is likely to be a well-chosen period for a pause in interest rate cuts after the ECB reaches the neutral range of its monetary policy in June 2025...

ECB stays the course – positive signals for real estate and investments

The inflation rate is now stable within the target corridor, the yield curve has normalised – after a total of eight key interest rate cuts since mid-2024, a level has been reached that is currently in the range of the interest rate considered neutral by the European Central Bank (ECB). Accordingly, there is no pressure for the ECB to act in the short term.

Problem properties – challenges and options for action

'From problem child to value driver: Creating new perspectives with clever strategies'

Logistics real estate investment market gains momentum despite lower volume

Number of trades increasing, but only one major transaction registered

Hotel valuation report: German hotel industry on the upswing – real estate values exceed pre-Corona level

The German hotel investment market has achieved a turnaround. The first half of 2025 shows positive market dynamics and the half-year transaction volume for hotel properties is significantly higher than the level of the past four years.

Industrial and logistics real estate market in North Rhine-Westphalia falls back to 2023 levels

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.

Munich’s logistics real estate market with a cautious first half of the 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.

Industrial and logistics real estate market in Central Germany with mixed first half of the 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 was driven by owner-occupiers in the first half of 2025

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.

Berlin’s industrial and logistics real estate market recovers in the first half of 2025

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.

Rethinking the real estate market: New environment places higher demands on owners and investors

Savills takes a look at the German real estate market in his current spotlight.

Office real estate investment market in Germany remained subdued in the first half of 2025

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.

New CBRE survey: Increase in lending expected in the professional real estate market

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.

Global Listed Infrastructure: A defensive asset class with opportunities in 2025

Globally listed infrastructure (GLI) companies will once again become the focus of strategic investors in 2025.

Market for residential and commercial buildings is growing – major transactions slow down the overall picture

In the first half of 2025, the market for residential and commercial buildings in Berlin experienced a further revival in terms of numbers. According to the latest evaluation by the Berlin Valuation Committee, 318 properties were sold – this corresponds to an increase of 10% compared to the same period last year.

Savills: European prime office yields harden as buyers return to markets

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 new reality of institutional real estate portfolios

'Turning point in the institutional real estate market'

Data-Driven to Performance and Climate Protection – Rethinking Investment Strategies and Decisions

Trading: Specialist stores dominate the investment market in the second quarter

At the end of the first half of the year, the investment market for retail real estate continued its recovery and, with a transaction volume of EUR 2.9 billion, exceeded the previous year's figure by ten percent. However, the average of the past five years is still 15 percent short.

Colliers: Industrial and logistics real estate market with positive half-year result

The German industrial and logistics real estate market generated take-up of around 2.9 million square metres in the first half of 2025. This corresponds to an increase of 12 percent compared to the previous year.

Generative AI in data centres part 1: A primer

In this first of a three-part series, we look at how GenAI is fuelling a surge in data centre investment, enabling the development of facilities that can house and cool high-power AI chips.