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Savills: $1 trillion worth of returns expected in 2025 as companies gear up for returns logistics

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.

Analysis by Wüest Partner: Stuttgart area with strong rent increase and falling purchase prices – Korntal-Münchingen leads location ranking

Wüest Partner analyzes 25 cities and municipalities around Stuttgart. Asking rents rise by an average of 14.0 percent – housing in Sindelfingen is the most expensive, in Aichwald the cheapest.

The Art of Successful Portfolio Transformation

'From patchwork to strategy: How a sustainable portfolio is created from individual measures'

Artificial intelligence is rapidly developing the life science market

German clusters Berlin-Potsdam and Munich are well positioned in a European comparison

Outlook 2025: “Make Europe Great Again”

Since the beginning of the year, risk assets have continued their upward trend, despite persistent tensions linked to D. Trump’s trade policies.

Victor Prime Office is growing again after the growth break

Positive impetus from rental and investment markets influences office performance

Savills: Logistics market in the storm of world politics – New opportunities through the customs agreement?

While the recent agreement between the EU and the US is an important signal, it does not yet mark a return to the trade stability of previous years.

Savills: Yields for European office properties in the premium segment fall – buyers return

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.

Repositioning by adding future-proof asset classes

'New Stability through Diversity: How Resilient Asset Classes and Locations Future-Proof Portfolios'

Hotel investment and operator market between risk and return

In the exclusive quarterly LinkedIn live update "mrp hotels quarterly", the experts from mrp hotels, together with industry insiders, presented an up-to-date quarterly analysis for the second quarter of 2025 on July 22, 2025.

Office market Germany 2025: robust demand until 2030 – investor opportunities in Regensburg and Karlsruhe – highest yield in Ludwigshafen

Wüest Partner publishes new office market study with details on demographics, employment, rent spectrums and yields for 37 German cities

Savills: Investments in European care properties pick up again

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.

Generative AI in data centres part 2: The evolution of GenAI and data centre investment implications

Statement by Francesco Fedele, CEO, BF.direkt on the ECB interest rate decision

It will be exciting to see how the ECB will decide at the next interest rate date in September. At least one more interest rate cut this year has already been priced in on the financial markets.

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.