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Colliers: Germany’s early cycle market will offer opportunities

The German real estate industry faces a year of opportunities in an early-cycle environment, according to Colliers’ new report on the “German Real Estate Market Outlook 2026”. The economy is slowly recovering, and the property market shows initial signs of stabilization.
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‘Whenever we see a roof, we see an opportunity’

Nicol Dynes

Investors pull €6.2bn from German open-ended real estate funds between January and October

€1.8bn data-centre pipeline advances in Finland and Germany

EY-Parthenon: Banks grow pessimistic on German real estate recovery
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European logistics remains a buyers’ market

Balazs Lados, managing director and European fund manager at Realterm

“Debt lock” situations still haunt the German market

Aviva and Amro launch €500m German student housing platform

VGP acquires 280,000 sq m site in Hagen for first North Rhine-Westphalia project

German office vacancy hits 8.7% as take-up stays below average

Nuveen adds two assets to European logistics portfolio

German commercial property NPLs top €10bn amid falling values and refinancing pressure

SHHA: consolidation coming to German senior housing market

SHHA: great opportunities in German senior housing market

Widening demand/supply gap in senior housing in Germany

CBRE: Transaction market for modern living in Germany rebounds to €165m in first half of 2025

LIP Invest: German logistics transactions reach €2.6bn in first half of 2025

Berlin and Hamburg lead logistics recovery despite drop in new builds

Clarion Partners acquires 125,000 sq m German logistics hub from Garbe joint venture

IMMOTISS launches third-party care asset manager for German market

Swiss Life’s BEOS targets €600m for fifth German industrial property fund

Greykite’s multi-let industrial platform expands to Germany

SHHA interview: ‘We see huge, long-term potential in all areas of healthcare’

Sylwia Ziemacka

Completions fall 14% as Germany misses housing target again

Urban Partners and HIH Invest launch 37,000 sq m green logistics hub in Germany
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Germany’s public investment plans set context for deal-by-deal strategy

Gereon Kohlgrüber, managing director and head of investments, Germany at AEW.
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Senior housing must be rethought for an ageing population

Caroline Gronack, Managing Director, Apleona Invest GmbH

Robust financing structures key to deals in a challenging logistics market

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German property market rebounds 12% in first quarter

Germany briefing: for investors residential is a ‘no brainer’

Briefing: positive momentum as Germany turns the page

Germany briefing: recovery is driven by domestic investors

M&G makes €82.5m German debut for living property fund

Berlin Hyp: Germany the most attractive RE market in Europe

Threestones’ Eurocare IV fund takes on assisted living sector

Savills IM’s European Living Fund ventures into Germany

Threestones fund buys five care homes in northern Germany

Greystar targets Berlin and forms JV with Primus Immo

Redevco buys Dortmund retail park to grow German portfolio

Beyond winter’s gloom: Europe must stay on the path to net zero

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Hopes for recovery in German market after difficult 2024

Nicol Dynes

No magic bullet as Germany looks for return to normality 

Nicol Dynes

ABG plans €250m revamp of historic Frankfurt landmark

Nonnengaesser to head PGIM’s German micro-living platform

Resi decarbonisation specialist Reneo hires Lambros Reppas

Cells buys former Signa-owned department store in Hamburg

Hilton opens first Spark hotel in Germany in Sindelfingen

GLP Clean Energy to deliver 10 new solar projects in Germany

Berlin Hyp backs green and social housing with €170m loan

Hines acquires fully let logistics property near Frankfurt Airport

Round Hill invests €100m in Berlin resi with dry powder ready

Lemli switches from Savills to CBRE Germany to head capital markets

Politics could thwart German market improvement: IVD

Prologis buys seven German logistics assets from Union

Q4 ’24 kept take-up low for Rhine-Main warehouses: NAI

Henderson and Stoke Park start revamp of Berlin’s Mosse

Administrator to sell Demire’s four-asset Limes portfolio

LBBW Immobilien redevelops listed central Frankfurt space

German insolvencies up and real estate feeling the pain

Civitas to double UK pipeline and expand further in Europe

Berlin Hyp chair calls for end to Germany’s ‘political gridlock’

Catella acquires Instone resi project in Nuremberg area

Q4 ’24: German resi’s strongest since interest rate hikes began

Supply-demand imbalances abound in the German market

Nicol Dynes

Segro sells three logistics assets in Germany to GCP

New Greykite-Equilibria JV to convert Munich hotel to PBSA

‘Team glass half-full’ prevails on prospects for German market

BNP Paribas: the worst is over for Europe’s real estate market

Catella merges CREAG and CRIM to form €10m platform

Opportunities in all sectors in Germany but caution needed

The funding gap in German market is ‘yet to be bridged’

Ontario Teachers/Boreal JV adds four assets to I&L portfolio

German market still in holding mode as uncertainty prevails

PGIM launches German logistics development platform

Berlin Hyp: Germany’s CRE market seen as ‘less attractive’

Germany embraces geothermal energy to power green transition

Paul Strohm

ZAR on a mission to green Germany’s residential

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‘Digitalisation and AI are driving the requirement for lifelong learning’

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Matter and GCM Grosvenor to invest €500 mln in resi projects

BayernCare forges ahead with care home in south Germany

German real estate market: on the cusp of a new cycle

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EXPO Real: Germany launches AI-driven brownfield ID system

Habyt strengthens presence in Germany with Leipzig project

Nrep and Garbe to develop logistics centre in Germany

Kingstone launches affordable housing fund in Germany

Verdion gets green light for €1 billion Rhine-Ruhr I&L park

FBK acquires Nuremberg resi following Alpha insolvency

CA Immo starts development of hybrid Berlin office building

URW sells Munich retail asset as deleveraging continues

PGIM Real Estate and M7 launch €100m German JV

Berlin’s Ziegert Group wins €50m backing from HIG

Second Proximus healthcare RE fund slated as first deployed

Garbe/Blackrock JV identifies first targets for development

UniCredit finances CA Immo Berlin offices with €90m loan

Tite Street Capital to back CV Real Estate Frankfurt project

Branicks realises €94m from sale of nine office assets to VIB

German housing shortage will persist as construction declines

Ex-CBRE Dilekli to aid Nexspace’s DACH data centre expansion

Padel venue absorbs unused Apcoa/Art-Invest Berlin space

Frankfurt’s new look Global Tower handed over fully leased

ECE/Strabag JV sells Cologne office to the city for €270m

Berlin Hyp first German bank to issue a bond on a blockchain

Frankfurt office demand weak in H1 but sentiment improves

Böhnlein to leave Commerz Real – for ‘new challenge’

Garbe’s new recruit to sift retail portfolio for more PV potential

Germany’s largest retail-to-mixed-use switch takes shape

PBSA: W5 channels €140m German family cash into USA

Brookfield to partner Empira on Cologne multi-family project

Germany’s residential market showing signs of recovery in Q2

Brookfield and Garbe JV to invest in logistics development

Development finance badly hit by lending crisis in Germany

Aareal exits property software firm and stake realises €2.1bn

Rockstone’s iQ Spaces to build Berlin’s gene therapy centre

Germany’s recovery unlikely before 2026: Ulrich Höller

Catella fund taps Leipzig PBSA market with €23m acquisition

Schöberl elected president of German property federation ZIA

Germany’s commercial real estate remains green and is getting greener

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Feldberg to shine life sciences light on Berlin’s Osram-Höfe

Bluerock buys four-asset resi portfolio in ‘challenging’ Berlin

BayernLB: a strategy for a changed market

Paul Strohm

Arrow Global boosts Germany footprint with Interboden buy

Logistics: a strategic response to lack of space in urban centres

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Empira: German residential market resilient to all crises

Kajima to develop German BTS warehouse for Mercedes Benz

Tishman Speyer targets data centres and acquires first site

Arrow targets Trossingen in Germany for JV with Cerberus

Empira: resi rents to increase in Germany as prices decline

Munich BMW office makes way for mixed eco-neighbourhood

Space race: VGP builds Munich HQ for satellite launch firm Isar

Arminius buys Volkswagen office building from Signa

PGIM buys Munich data centre site as demand rises by 30% pa

Slovakia’s JTRE goes for a mix of uses in Berlin’s Europacity

Rise in demand for operational sectors in German market

Tina Reuter officially takes on role as head of C&W Germany

Defaults inevitable in Germany but banking system is healthy

In Germany ‘do more in 2024’ rather than ‘survive until 2025’

JLL: private investors stepping up in subdued German market

Clarion picks up Rhine-Rhur logistic asset from Panattoni

Resi rents rise in Berlin but institutional interest collapses

Frankfurt office JV to start now €200m debt package in place

German resi portfolio market hits 14-year low in Q1 2024

ZIA offers glimmer of hope for Germany’s real estate market

LIP’s fifth logistics fund is to target assets worth €350m

ECB to take 38,000 sq m in landmark Frankfurt tower

C&W report: rehabilitation properties in demand in Germany

Nicol Dynes

Economics and geography propel German logistics

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Panattoni planning €100m project close to Cologne

Sonae and Bankinter launch retail-focused German REIT

Garbe-subsidiary GRR acquires German supermarket portfolio

Sirius deploys recently raised capital in €40m acquisitions

New €200m HT Group fund aimed at refinancing assets

LaSalle-Swiss Life JV to grow German logistics portfolio

Blackstone sells Clarion eight logistics properties for €270m

BNP Paribas: German property market set for rebound in 2024

Berlin Hyp survey: recovery in Germany depends on rate cuts

Private equity eyes opportunities in German market

Nicol Dynes

Outlook 2024: difficult year ahead for German office sector

Outlook 2024: Germany in survival mode, recovery elusive

Outlook 2024: smaller deals will be the norm in German market

Germany’s investment surge does not herald rally: Savills

German funds grow as market enters consolidation phase

CA Immo obtains 4% green refinancing on Munich office

CA Immo exceeds book value in sale of ZigZag office in Mainz

Sportscheck insolvency – Frasers pulls acquisition

Debt gap in refinancing ‘to be expected’ in German market

A ‘perfect storm’ as German market faces liquidity gap

Germany’s office market crisis continues in Q3: pbb Index

Catella resi fund buys Cologne affordable housing project

Second CBRE IM/Vonovia deal in ’23 brings spend to €920m

€88m Vonovia sale boosts Dresden public housing stock

BentallGreenOak to develop major Leipzig logistics unit

UK’s Frasers Group to acquire 34-store German sports chain

New logistics locations in demand in Germany

Nicol Dynes

Trei addresses student housing need with Wiesbaden scheme

Survey: German sentiment dives but picture nuanced

Sirius sells in Kassel, buys in Barnsley as assets recycled

P3 adds trio of logistics assets to its portfolio in Germany

Trammel Crow expands scope of Berlin area logistics park

New definition of ‘the office’ required says Germany’s ZIA

Experience in timber makes difference for new advisory firm

Logistics market broadens out to new locations in Germany

Verdion starts spec phase of €100m Berlin logistics project

Patrizia refinances Frankfurt’s Commerzbank Tower: 55% LTV

Slate AM to acquire X-Bricks’ €1bn food retail portfolio

German H1 resi portfolio sales lowest since 2011: NAI Apollo

Deka Immobilien and VGP in €1.1 bn logistics joint venture

Investors should avoid certain German cities says new report

SpaceGenie targets Germany’s lack of self storage facilities

ECB rate rises set scene as volumes fall 64% in Germany

Clarion buys Blackstone German logistics portfolio

Economic conditions cement stability of German rented resi

Patron and Inbright target €250m German industrial RE

Church plans office and resi tower in central Frankfurt

Sentiment among German lenders finding ‘a stable basis’

Caution on German offices while economy ‘on slide’: PBB

Frankfurt business school launches property institute

CTP to invest €600 million in German and Polish logistics

P3 buys a let investment in Germany’s deep water port

Germany’s wait-and-see market set to become more liquid in Q4

Nicol Dynes

Empira’s new Cologne resi quarter beats asbestos threat

€560m portfolio sale brings Vonovia near 2023 sales target

Round Hill invests €32m in German senior living facility

Patrizia picks former DWS chief for CEO as Egger steps aside

Orion and 4 More repositioning boosts Wiesbaden retail centre

Vonovia sells €1 billion stake in German resi portfolio to Apollo

Wing completes Bauwert acquisition in expansion drive

Living sector the most resilient in Germany, offices in demand

ESG compliance now driving market valuations in Germany

German transactions on hold but rebound expected in Q4

Berlin resilient despite dip in Q1 demand for German offices

LIP Invest acquires pre-let logistics asset near Stuttgart

AIF Capital adds three German healthcare facilities to portfolio

Garbe plans €76m multi-let logistics scheme near Leipzig

Mainz office campus improved and sold to Gold Tree Group

Catella fund buys affordable green PRS scheme in Berlin

Greenman fund acquires three Edeka stores in sale/leaseback

Apleona raises annual sales to €3.5 bn with Gegenbauer deal

Berlin maintains appeal for rented residential investors

Germany’s office space and investment markets diverging

Sale & leaseback deal brings LIP an ESG-friendly asset

Values’ public sector fund buys the former RTL HQ in Cologne

Savills Germany: Monthly volume hits a 10-year low

Log In logistics vehicle buys trio of Spanish and German assets

ESG beckons as Becken plans revamp of new Munich asset

International Campus buys five assets in Germany and Austria

Saarbrücken assisted living buy broadens spread for AIF fund

HIH buys 100,000 sq m resi portfolio from Quarterback

Conren Land buys Deka’s Scala West and plans major facelift

Sale of Chemnitz department store puts DIC sales on target

DEMIRE realises €121m from sale of Leipzig logistics asset

Empira’s new BTR fund covers Germany’s top seven cities

DIC Asset ups stake in VIB which will be its logistics arm

NREP bags first German assets as launches €500m strategy

Henderson acquires majority of German residential developer

HIH Invest Real Estate buys 90% prelet project in Freiburg

IC focuses on communal space after buying Bremen test bed

German logistics steady but future hard to call: LIP Invest

Aggregate sells three more sections of Berlin project

CBRE IM plans office-to-resi conversion for new Berlin buy

Germany is discovering new asset class – self storage

EXPO Real: German deals pause as uncertainty increases

NAS Invest buys Frankfurt office tower from JP Morgan

Barings buys single-family BTR housing scheme in Germany

AEW acquires pre-let office asset in Munich’s Art District

Conren buys Eschborn office in offmarket deal with Investcorp

The Grounds to increase density of Berlin resi asset

ABG pays Cilon €113m for refurbished Eschborn office

Round Hill and TPG launch new PBSA brand in Germany

Union buys Düsseldorf office development from Oman SWF

IC aiming at ‘professionals’ as Frankfurt project starts on site

Kroeger to lead combined European division at Allianz

P3 to develop one of Europe’s largest data centre campuses

Germany’s ‘super cycle’ over as deal volumes dive in Q2 : Savills

German healthcare investment volumes hit €1bn in H1: C&W

Garbe core-plus logistics fund raises €400m at first close

Wuppertal resi buy sweeps HIH fund towards its €400m target

Greenman OPEN invests more in roof mounted solar panels

iQ spaces: new life sciences platform launched in Germany

Germany faces uncertainty amid global turbulence

Paul Strohm

Norges pays €677m for half share of Oxford’s Sony Center

Greenman fund’s €95.5m green food foray on track

Real estate as inflation hedge “will keep attracting capital”

Trammell Crow lines up Berlin sites for first Germany projects

Quest focuses on solar power with new energy subsidiary

AIF’s €300m sustainable living quarters fund buys first assets

KGAL JV to develop Munich’s €300m climate-neutral arena

MIPIM: Berlin tops growth table but don’t forget B-cities

Profile: Germany’s KGAL rides the wave as market defies pandemic

Paul Strohm

International investors return to safe haven Germany

Nicol Dynes

Frankfurt’s Marienturm goes to DWS – €830m price reported

New facility for food-focused Greenman’s €1bn Open fund

Allianz and partners to develop €1.3bn of offices in Germany

DFI pays €116m for 5-star Berlin hotel and plans enhancement

Union Investment’s dual-branded Munich hotel opens

AEW bags Commerz Real’s Cologne city centre office giant

Greening of portfolios a key topic in the German market

Safe haven Germany a magnet for investors in uncertain times

UK back in pole position but Germany ‘in a different league’

Patrizia logistics fund pays €139m for two German assets

CTP launches Germany unit with plans for €1bn spend

New Hamburg project planned by Campus International

AEW’s urban logistics allocation reaches €200 million

HIH acquires food-driven district centre in Rostock

Commerz Real acquires four resi projects in ‘swarm cities’

Koblenz deal boosts Beos Logistics’ development rosta

KKR buys €1bn German resi portfolio from Adler Group

Patron and Inbright to transform German factory site

Deregulation must be priority for new German government

Paul Strohm

Germany: Safe haven status survives covid and political changes

Paul Strohm

Primonial REPM wins Values’ €200m daycare fund mandate

Heitman buys German self-storage ahead of institutions

NPLs return to Germany as banks sell off some assets

Alternative financing for RE to complement bank lending

Primevest Capital Partners acquires Saarbrücken resi

Deregulation must be priority for new German government

German markets remain buoyant in changed real estate landscape

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Post-pandemic delivery

Paul Strohm

Carlyle, Montano partner to buy €500m of German sheds

Domicil buys 2,300-home Swiss Life German resi portfolio

Corestate pays €160m for Stuttgart office campus project