Outlook 2025: “Make Europe Great Again”

Micro-apartments: High demand and potential returns

Thanks to growing internationality in the training and work areas, Magdeburg is experiencing an increasing demand for micro-apartments.

Artificial intelligence is rapidly developing the life science market

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

Trough reached: Office investment markets at a turning point

Office properties were by far the most affected by the difficult economic environment and higher interest rates. In addition, there was a certain uncertainty regarding the future development of the home office quota. But the trend is going back to the office.

Office investment markets: strong start to the year

In the first quarter of 2025, office properties have regained their traditional leadership role, which they had lost in logistics real estate over the past two 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.

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

Munich real estate investment market: Private capital takes advantage of increasing willingness of institutional investors to sell for countercyclical purchases

According to Savills, around 980 million euros were turned over in the Munich real estate investment market in the 1st half of 2025. Compared to the same period last year, this corresponds to a decline of 27%. Compared to the 10-year average, sales were even 54% lower.

Smart Cities – What makes them special. And what they mean for the future.

Cities create wealth, promote development, fulfill desires, harness human progress, and increasingly use new technologies to address multiple challenges.

Residential real estate as an investment

Despite the recent slump in the investment market, the German rental housing market continues to offer opportunities for investors – thanks to continued strong tenant demand and a shortage of housing. This entails further rental growth potential and ensures stable and sustainable cash flows.

The rays of hope are increasing

Real estate markets offer opportunities to build strategic allocations

Global investment market to grow by 34 percent in the first quarter of 2025

Global real estate transaction volume reached $185 billion in the first quarter of 2025, up 34 percent year-on-year. EMEA achieved the largest increase in sales among the world regions at 41 percent.

Significant market recovery in the hotel investment market in the third quarter

BNP Paribas Real Estate publishes figures on the hotel investment market for Q3 2024: After the first nine months of 2024, an investment volume of just under one billion euros (€992 million) was registered in the German hotel investment market.

Easing procurement costs – impetus for the expansion of renewable energies?

With packages of measures - such as the Solar Package I - the German government is aiming for a climate-neutral electricity supply.

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.

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.

“Responsibility for Germany”: What are the implications of the coalition agreement for real estate law and the real estate industry?

IRE|BS Viewpoint No. 142 by Attorney-at-Law, Dr. jur. Leopold Winkler with an in-depth look at the effects of the coalition agreement for real estate law and the real estate industry.

Aengevelt Residential Investment Index AWI continues to rise

Aengevelt Research has been publishing the AWI index since 2008 as a qualified scientific guide to the residential investment market. After the worst result in the 2022/2023 winter survey with 47.9 points, its value rose again afterwards.

BNPPRE meets Prologis – ESG & Digitalization in Logistics

Logistics real estate is becoming increasingly interesting for many investors, and seemingly niche products such as data centers are also becoming increasingly important. Where does that come from?

Office letting market in Hamburg Q2-2025: Premium space in central locations remains scarce

In the first half of 2025, take-up in Hamburg's office letting market amounted to 207,000 m². Compared to the same period last year, this corresponds to an increase of 9.8%. In contrast to the ten-year average, however, it was about 15% lower.

Cost increase for top offices accelerates in Q1 2025

Rental growth for prime office space* worldwide accelerated in the first quarter of 2025. Rents rose by 0.6% on average compared to the previous quarter, after an increase of 0.3% in the fourth quarter of 2024, Savills said.

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.

Transaction market for modern living is reviving – new construction is lagging behind

With a volume of 165 million euros, the total volume of the previous year was already exceeded at the end of the first half of the year.

Talents – The second of the three “T’s” of prosperous cities

Whereas in the past cities focused on attracting large manufacturing companies or establishing themselves as trading locations, today they are competing for the new human resource of the talented-creative class.

Navigating the Private Markets landscape in 2025 (so far)

Like other asset classes, Private Markets have had to navigate a 2025 strewn with macro uncertainty. Here, we look at assets we believe are screening positively in the current environment, while asking what needs to change to bolster other sub-sectors.