Berlin zoning laws

Urban development is back on the agenda in a big way in Germany. Faced with a shortage of affordable housing, a lack of accommodation for large numbers of refugees arriving this year (and set to arrive next year) and a rise in the number of individual households, it’s clear that there is a desperate need for new residential real estate. The way people work and shop is also changing, and …

Berlin real estate – a planned economy   Anyone who has ever read any reports on Germany’s property markets will know that the real estate economy in the country is broken down into a number of sub-sectors, both in terms of geography and property types. Given the country’s federal structure, with 16 individual states and city states, there is not a single, dominant property market in the way that …