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Real estate expert Thomas Filor: Germany considered top investment real estate. The sale of big packages with thousands of apartments was a popular destination for investors in the past year. Magdeburg, 16.01.2014 – considered safe investment in a country with a growing economy and rising incomes. Since the financial and euro crisis, investors feel German residential real estate as an anchor in the emergency. With 15.8 billion, highest level increased in 2005 since the previous year’s result by more than 40 percent. This tells the real Jones Lang LSalle.

It counted sales from ten units. More than 236,000 units (previous year: 200,000) changed owners in over 440 transactions (2012: 300). Two large transactions in certain events. In April 2013, 31,000 flats of GBW BayernLB’s subsidiary for 2.45 billion euros were sold to a consortium of German power plants, societies and pension funds under the leadership of Patrizia AG. In November the Germans living AG took over 91 percent of the shares of the Berlin GSW AG. “This corresponds to the beginning of 2013 forecast trend to a higher concentration of the market through more mergers instead of portfolio deals”, emphasizes real estate expert Thomas Filor. Foreign buyers were less present in the German housing market last year. Only 20 percent of the invested capital came from them.

2012, it was twice as much. With 40 percent, listed companies were the largest group of buyers last year. 20 Percent asset and fund managers came, followed by banks, insurance companies and pension funds, with a share of 18 percent. Especially in Berlin and its environs the investors run has grown enormously”, so Thomas Filor next. Four times as much capital as in the previous year in the German capital flowed to 6.8 billion euros.


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