The ECB’s decision to leave key interest rates unchanged is understandable and correct

German investment market for commercial real estate

The German commercial real estate investment market recorded a turnover of around EUR 24.4 billion in 2024, an increase of 9% compared to the previous year.

CSRD creates transparency – energy policy must take greater account of the social dimension

Comment on the ZIA press release by Dr. Michael Heigl, Director Sustainability at Wüest Partner

Sober and only very cautiously optimistic

Boris Schran, Managing Partner, Peakside Capital Advisors on EXPO REAL 2025

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.

Office letting market in Berlin Q2-2025: Take-up remains subdued – Increased demand in individual sub-markets provides impetus

In the first half of 2025, take-up on the Berlin office letting market amounted to 248,000 m². This represents a decrease of 17.2% compared to the same period last year.

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.

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.

Upturn in investment markets continues

In the first three quarters, turnover on the German investment markets was noticeably higher than in the same period last year. This is shown by the latest analysis by BNP Paribas Real Estate.

Top-down or bottom-up?

Different approaches can be taken when selecting managers and investment products and constructing multi-manager portfolios. We will now discuss what the practical differences are and why they play a role for us.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The rays of hope are increasing

Real estate markets offer opportunities to build strategic allocations

Housing Shortage in Europe further deteriorates

Rental Prices Increase by 2.4% Within Six Months, Overcrowding on the Rise

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.

The general conditions remain challenging for the industry at the current interest rate level

Project developments continue to be under pressure from high financing costs, and many market participants remain cautious. Despite the uncertainties, however, we are confident that 2026 can be a turning point for the market.

Hotel investment market: Not yet high turnover, but a good number of deals and positive market sentiment for Q2

Even though the upward trend has not yet been sustainably reflected in the investment data, the hotel division has continued the recovery course of its market environment unabated in the first quarter of 2025.

German real estate investment market: Supply increases, transaction volume not yet

In the 1st half of 2025, commercial and residential real estate* changed hands on the German real estate investment market for around EUR 13.3 billion. Compared to the same period last year, this represents a decrease of 13%.

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

Colliers: Industrial and logistics leasing market on the road to recovery

Take-up in Germany exceeded the previous year's level by 8 per cent. In the top 8, the focus of users continues to be on the small-scale space segment up to 3,000 square metres.

SUBSIDIZED CLEAR-CUTTING FOR ENERGY-EFFICIENT RENOVATION – A FATAL SIGNAL FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION AND THE ECONOMY

What is sold as "budget consolidation" is in fact a step backwards with an announcement.

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.

The time of waiting is over. Aengevelt expects yields on real estate to rise again.

Further key interest rate cuts promised by the ECB are counteracted by the federal government's borrowing ("debt package"), so that Aengevelt expects an average interest rate of 2.8% for ten-year German government bonds in the course of 2025.