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Alexander Korte is a German Real Estate professional and owner of Berlin Real Estate Investment. His focus is on investment property & luxury homes.
2010: News, Facts and Gossip about Berlin (Germany) Real Estate
we just added a new location on our Berlin Real Estate Map of Promising Areas.
Berlin Real Estate Map of Promising Area auf einer größeren Karte anzeigen
“Schillerkiez” arround Herfurth Platz in Neukölln close to Kreuzkoelln.
Torstrasse in Berlin Mitte is what urban land planner call a “magistrale” a big trafficed street in this case 2 lanes each direction. While the real estate market in Mitte matured Torstrasse stayed unfinished until this year. Mostly all empty plots got sold.
The last undeveloped plot Torstr. 136 will host a new budget hotel starting [...]
Get the PDF here.
Emerging Trends in Real Estate® Europe 2010 Report
The prospects for development have declined fractionally, but as other cities
have declined further, Berlin has risen up the rankings
slightly, moving from 15th to 12th. Residential property is
favoured. As one interviewee comments, “Berlin is an interesting
market for residential, ‘It is hip to live in Berlin.’ ” This
is reflected in [...]
New Berlin based online mag sugarhigh.de today features the lifestyle of the new berlin hotspot kreuzkoelln (north neukoelln).
read the artcile here: “meet the kreuzkoellner”
Don’t know were Kreuzkoelln is located? Get our real estate investment map on BerlinInvestment.com.
According to BNP Paribas Real Estate (BNPRE) Investment Market Report 2010 turnover in commercial real estate investments trippeled in Q1/2010 compared to the same period in the previous year. This is the highest quarterly turnover since 2 years.
For the Top6 Real Estate cities Berlin, Munich, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Cologne
BNPRE reports ca. 2.86 bn Euro compared [...]
I bookmarked this in del.ico.us a day after it was published, and forgot about it, that is why I share this so late with you.
Nevertheless the good news is this article is still more than true even 6 month after it was published and reflects my experience with the market.
Berlin is coming into balance
After a [...]
Since a long time Nord Neukoelln is on our Berlin Real Estate Area Analysis Map.
Now the wellknown and popular Berlin based Magazin Tip Magazin has published an articel about Nord Neukoelln.
Read the English translation of this articel North Neukölln: avant-garde playground, auto-translated by Google here.
Some quotes from the article:
“Every few days, opened a bar, a [...]
German rental laws are way to mystified in the media, here I will clean up with some myths and put a light spot on reality.
400.000 visitors of 3.4 mio berlin visitor are families (mom, dad and kid(s)) therefore the suplly with kidfriendly hotels in Berlin is not very good. A wellknown Berlin based Hotelprojectdevelopment company wip Willmeroth Projektentwicklungsgesellschaft mbH wants to change this. They just have aquired Berlins biggest existing indoor pool form Liegenschaftsfond Berlin, a real estate asset [...]
Berlin-Mitte and especially every location below Torstrasse is gaining momentum while locals as well as international buyers demand drive rental prices to so far unexpected hights.
Especially big flats with miore than 3 rooms, as well as flats offering barrier-free features are in high demand. TLG Immobilien a big real estate investor (strong in East Germany) [...]
on this website you can check wether a certain location is top, good, average or poor.
Immobilien Kompass
For people with in depth location knowledge redundant, but very good for a first pre-check.
Because this map from German based Capital Magazin is a little bit general,
we do have our own free map, about were to invest (or were [...]
IVG Development announced yesterday the start of a new development close to Hackescher Markt and the Museums Island in the city center of Berlin (East). The project called “Hackesches Quartier” with rental floor space of 36,600 square meters of whom 80 per cent has been marketed before the start of the construction. Main renter of [...]
According to the March Issue 2007 of “BERLIN ESTATE NEWS” of Liegenschaftsfond:
“2006 was a boom year for the Berlin real estate market. The appeal of Berlin as a
real estate location will continue through 2007. In comparison to other major European
cities, property prices are still pretty low. In a comparison of German cities too,
Berlin has the [...]
IBB (Investitions Bank Berlin, a state owned bank) issued this report about housing and real estate trends in Berlin in 2006. Make sure you compare it with the 2005 Housing Report to get the trends.
If Berlin is not only an investment vehicle for you but you enjoy the lifestyle of this city, this map with cool stuff (shops) of Berlin Mitte might be something for you:
The site:
i love cool stuff
Downolad the map (direct link to the PDF, it will open in your browser)
This happens all day, somebody writes an email to us, after he came back from a Berlin House Hunting trip (via one of the big marketig maschines).
The situation is the following, after a presentation and the visit of two properties the people have signed a LOI and payed a Down-Payment to the agent (that they [...]
PWC & Urban Land Institute: Emerging Trends in Real Estate Europe 2007
PARIS, February 7 /PRNewswire/ –
- Survey Respondents See Less Risk, Higher Returns for European Cities inYear Ahead
Paris once again leads this year’s list of top real estate investmentmarkets in Europe, according to the highly regarded real estate investmentreport, Emerging Trends in Real Estate(R) Europe [...]
ING Real Estate Global Vision for 2007 (pdf)
Good analysis of the major countries and cities. Does not include Berlin, but Germany
Here is how Real Estate Investing 2.0 works:
Fly into a major city, most likely with you own jet, hop on a helicopter with the real estate agent and spend 30 minutes in the air.
After flying over the area of interest and some explanations for the real estate guy, you head back to the airport and [...]
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During a session titled, “Global Hot Spots — How to Think about Hot Foreign Markets,” Wharton real estate professor Peter Linneman called on each panelist to describe the markets they find most intriguing. “How much is hype? How much is reality?” he asked.
Stuart Rothenberg, managing director at Goldman Sachs and head of its real estate [...]
We constantly check up and coming locations in and arround Berlin.And then post the things we discover including our opinion into our “Real Estate Map of Promising Areas in Berlin“.
You can find the map here.
We constantly update this document online, so keep coming back.
FT.com site, Jan 02, 2007
Investment in German commercial property is at a record high, boosted by the flood of foreign investors who are betting that the recovery in Europe’s largest economy will at last trigger rising demand for offices and shops.
The volume of German commercial property transactions more than doubled to €45bn ($59.8bn) last year [...]