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Housing construction has become such a hot topic in Germany that it has broken out of the dedicated property sections of the country’s major daily newspapers and is now making front-page headlines and being discussed on the comfy sofas of mainstream current affairs programmes. Let’s take a look at some of the facts that everyone seems to agree on, and examine how many of the problems currently putting a brake …
Project development
The supply of housing (or, more appropriately, lack of supply) has been making headlines in both Germany and the UK this autumn. Property prices and rents seem to be increasing everywhere you look, and demand has been outstripping supply for some time. Well, now there is some good news, at least as far as Germany’s capital is concerned. Housing: the good news There is a clear increase in housing …
Project development – tax breaks planned Project development is crucial if Germany is to get to grips with its housing crisis. There was a very interesting article in Spiegel Online on 26.11.2015 outlining plans being floated by Germany’s coalition government, namely via the CDU’s “iron-fisted” finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble, to help relieve the pressures on housing in many of the country’s major cities. Read on to find out what the coalition …
There has been considerable hype recently in connection with what is being marketed as a revolutionary new source of funding for real estate projects — crowdfunding. Who are the companies that have entered the market, what’s in it for investors and developers, and how does crowd investment compare with more traditional forms of real estate investment? You’ve got to be in it to win it One major hurdle for …