• Competition among demand groups, yield compression, increasing dynamism of investments
• Student halls of residence: Requirements for student housing – past and present
• The future of private student apartments: Who can hold their own in a mature market?

• Total cumulated take-up of 425,000 sq m in the first three quartes, down by 12% y-o-y

• City (32,100 sq m), City-South (15,400 sq m) and Stellingen/Lokstedt/Eimsbüttel (51,700 sq m) are the strongest submarkets; a total of nine large-scale contracts were registered with more than 5,000 sq m each in the current year

• Once again the vacancy rate reached a historic low of 4.2%. The vacancy rate in City-South fell by further by 3 %-points down to 5.8%

• Rental growth is accelerating slightly: both the prime and weighted average rents will continue their stable upward trend over the medium-term

• Occupiers increasingly react to the shortage by renewing existing leasing or by looking into pre-letting options in current developments

• Transaction volume of around €8bn in the first three quarters
• Major deal dominates third quarter
• Top 7 locations see more growth – investment share climbs to 28%

• Record year in sight – real estate investment market reports double-digit growth 
• Transaction volume at around €56 billion – up 12 percent year on year
• Commercial real estate investment market generates transaction volume of €41.7 billion in the first three quarters
• Office real estate still the strongest asset class
• Residential real estate investment volume up 38 percent year on year in the first three quarters 

-  Industry 4.0, Big Data und Iot – growing requirements placed on the digital infrastructure

- The fourth Industrial Revolution – the growing need for data Centres

- IoT and Big Data will prompt a massive increase in the data volume in the future as well

- Requirements placed on computing power set to increase

- Great challenge: electricity costs

In 2017, the German hotel investment market achieved a transaction volume of €4.1 billion, with pressure to invest remaining high and fresh capital pouring into the real estate market.

• Germany remains a safe haven - the economic uptrend is set to continue in 2018.
• Prime yields for hotels in top locations will continue to be under pressure in 2018, with prime yields for core commercial proprety below 3.5%. 
• Both opportunities and challenges lie ahead due to a record high development pipeline.
• The hotel environment is changing, particularly in the field of digitalisation and innovation.

• Sustainable upswing on German real estate markets Thanks to economic boom
• Growth rate of GDP is set to rise by 2.2% (2017) - economic uptrend is set to continue at a vivid pace in 2018 as well and gain a broader footing
• Transaction volumes on the German commercial investment market 2017 exceeded the €57 bn mark; for 2018 we assume that despite limited supply the market dynamic will remain high
• Record in office letting take-up 2017 - veritable excess demand, reduced vacancy and moderate new build activity lead to further rising rents in 2018
• Overall German retail take-up volume in 2017 is anticipated to exceed the €500 bn threshold - demand of (inter-)national retailers still high, but more focused on locations and concepts - challenge of growing e-commerce
• Due to strong expanding online-trading, new logistics property types for the last mile are increasingly in discussion in urban locations
• Fiercer competition for core hotel products in prime locations is expected -  investors will focus more on economically strong major provincials, secondary cities and new property developments.
• Care homes establish themselves more firmly as an investment alternative – even for classic, conservative core investors
• Residential markets remain strained despite risen building activity - increasing rents and purchasing prices in the high-influx regions.

• Volume of retail space continues to grow in 2016
• Food retail and drugstores increase their average store sizes
• Letting market still relatively unfazed by online retail
• ROSSMANN, REWE and dm are the most expansive retailers in H1 2017
• Retail warehouses/parks remain the biggest retail asset segment
• High transaction volumes reflect the attractiveness of the retail investment market
• Major shortage of product keeps pressure on prime yields
• Leipzig and Dresden are the top long-term achievers in the Retail Investment Scoring
• According to the HAHN survey, retailers again believe that retail parks have seen the strongest rises in footfall
• In the investor survey, Core property remains the investor’s undisputed favourite

• Take-up 5% above five-year average at 4.4m sq m
• Virtually no big boxes: deals focused on mid-sized category in Q3 2017
• Take-up grows 7% in the Top 5 markets; down 21% in the national markets
• Full-year take-up potentially more than 6m sq m
• Transaction volume at €5.8bn at the end of Q3 2017
• Large-scale portfolio transactions determine investment activity
• Prime yields for core properties continue to slip – now at 4.50%
• Year-end result of up to €7bn possible

• German retail market globally sought-after as expansion location

• German retail letting market 2016 narrowly misses previous top results

• German concepts particular active on domestic market

• Record level of new market entrances of international retail and food & beverage concepts

Factory Outlet Centre (FOC) or Outlet Centre (OC) are developing into an indispensable part of the European and Germany retail scene. Taking into consideration the permanently rising number of assets, FOCs have not only turned into an inherent sales channels for the distribution strategy of brand manufactures and retailers, but also into an increasingly sought-after asset class among property investors. Tenants as well as investors of outlet stores are expecting high revenues and yields. Rising investment volumes and the more diversified group of investors are indicating that the former special retail property is establishing itself as independent asset class on the commercial real estate market.