Real Estate

From Real Estate to Real Assets: The Role of Renewable Energies in the Energy Transition

Without the consistent expansion of renewable energies, it is impossible to achieve the climate goals for a sustainable future. In this context, traditional real estate offers not only economic, but also environmental and social added value.

Digitalisation and European Debt Investing

As global megatrends around urbanisation and digitalisation accelerate, real estate markets are being reshaped in ways that present compelling opportunities for alternative lenders.

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 markets compared: Berlin vs. Munich

German office markets thrive on the individual DNA of the respective city. User and thus demand structures often differ greatly from each other.

Impact vs. EU Green Deal: On the lack of consideration of “investor impact” in the EU Green Deal

The white paper addresses the issue of the lack of alignment of impact frameworks in large parts of the EU Green Deal.

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.

Deutsche Investment Retail acquires a DISKA store in Pommersfelden from ADMIRA

DIR Deutsche Investment Retail GmbH has acquired an ESG-compliant new building in Pommersfelden in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg, part of the Nuremberg metropolitan region, for the second local supply fund of Deutsche Investment Kapitalverwaltung AG.

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.

Savills: Housing company rents office space in Cologne-Junkersdorf

On 15.04.2025, LEG Wohnen GmbH will lease approximately 716 m² of office space at Dürener Straße 403-405 in the Junkersdorf district of Cologne.

Further signs of a market recovery in Europe: The Catella Macroeconomic Dashboard

After difficult years on the European residential real estate market, there are increasing signs of stabilization. Macroeconomic factors continue to be the most important drivers of market development and shape investment decisions.

MIPIM 2025: Trust as a business basis for liquid new business.

Statement by Mark Aengevelt, Managing Partner of Aengevelt Immobilien, on the MIPIM real estate fair in Cannes

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.

Things are looking up – at a snail’s pace

European real estate investment volume likely to exceed €50 billion in Q1 2025

According to the latest study by Savills, European real estate investment volume is expected to exceed €50 billion in the first quarter of 2025, an increase of 28% compared to the previous year.

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.

500 billion euros that change a lot

Market in Minutes: Investment Market Germany

Airbus signs lease for 30,000 sqm logistics site in France with Invesco Real Estate

Invesco Real Estate has leased 30,000 sqm logistics space to Airbus at its Montbartier (82) facility in the Montbartier logistics zone, in Tarn-et-Garonne, France. The asset is owned by Invesco Real Estate’s flagship European strategy.

Real Estate Debt: Market Observations on the Structuring of Whole Loans in Europe

The financing landscape in the real estate debt sector has undergone a profound change in recent years. Understanding the complexity of loan structuring is critical to successfully navigating this dynamic environment.

Investments in grocery stores: year-end spurt in the portfolio segment sends a positive signal for 2025, average deal volume rises

Despite a decline in the retail park investment volume in 2024, the asset class is off to a positive start in 2025. The market picked up at the end of the year with 41% of annual sales in Q4. This is the result of the first Grocery Investment Market Report by BNP Paribas Real Estate.

Deutsche Investment Retail acquires paddock site in Bad Wildbad-Calmbach

Deutsche Investment Retail has acquired an established paddock location in the spa town of Bad Wildbad Calmbach in the northern Black Forest for the first local supply fund of Deutsche Investment Kapitalverwaltung.

Declining prime yields amid rising transaction volume in the European industrial and logistics real estate market

according to Savills' latest European Logistics Outlook, total investment reached €37.9 billion in 2024, up 14% from 2023 and the fifth-strongest year in history, just behind 2019.

Savills: GETEC Immobilien buys office building in Hanover

The five-storey building, located between the centre and the Stadtgarten, was built in 1984 and has a diversified tenant structure. The seller of the property is MEAG.

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.