• Record result of 300,200 sq m – up 14% year on year
• Ongoing decline in the vacancy rate – 3.1% at the end of the first half year
• Prime rent up 11% in a y-o-y comparison to €30.00 /sq m/month
• Transaction volume on the investment market declines to €1.2bn in the first six months
• Large-scale deals determinant factor
• Net initial yield (office) running at 3.00%

• Transaction volume of around €3bn in the first quarter
• Huge demand pushing yields down
• Berlin's housing companies focusing on new construction in the context of public-private partnerships

• Office investment market feeling the effects of short supply
• Transaction volume at €5.5 billion – down 22 percent year on year
• Virtually no portfolio transactions – seven percent in the first quarter of 2019
• Prime yield of the Top 7 markets ticks down to 3.14 percent

- Economic Outlook: Germany’s economic fundamentals remain robust – positive outlook for employment, income and consumption

- Investment Outlook: Strong performance on the letting markets is keeping demand high, especially for office, logistics and residential property

- Office Market Outlook: Consistently high demand for office space will ensure that the market will quickly absorb growth in the pipeline

- Retail Outlook: Selectivity increasingly set to become the key to successful investment and trading strategies in retail

- Residential Outlook: In view of the lack of existing stock, property developments and securing them by way of forward deals gaining importance in the market for student halls of residence and micro living

- Logistics Outlook: Logistics properties in hot demand but supply is tight in the market – yet another reason why corporate real estate is attracting more investor attention than ever

- Hotel Outlook: Unabatedly strong demand on the German hotel investment market coincides with limited availability – property developments highly desirable

- Care Home Outlook: The German market for healthcare properties evidencing steady growth. Care homes offer an attractive investment alternative and are in growing demand

• 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?

• Positive trend in consumer spending at a time of favourable economic conditions
• Retail sector reports strong turnover growth in both bricks-and-mortar and online segments
• Total sales area remains at the previous year’s level
• Superstores and drugstores are the most expansive operation types
• E-commerce is mainly a sales channel for the non-food sector
• Improved letting market over the first half of 2018
• Retail warehouses and retail parks are the most popular property types in the investment market
• Significant scarcity of product results in further pressure on prime yields
• Expert survey shows more optimistic view of bricks-and-mortar retail
• Greater focus on value-add and opportunistic investments

-  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

• 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.