Sunday 19 March 2017

EMEA Investors Intentions Survey by CBRE: Germany at No.1 again with Berlin moving up to No.2 city


INVESTOR INTENTIONS SURVEY 2017

Berlin moved up to No.2
 The CBRE has arrived at these conclusions:
  • Economic conditions are positive and investors have ample capital to deploy in real estate
  • In EMEA, investors are planning for $475 billion in real estate investments in 2017
  • For 2017, 85% of investors intend to spend at least as much as in 2016, and 40% expect to spend more
  • Germany is ahead of the UK as the most attractive place to invest, as was the case in 2016, but investors are showing an increasing tendency to invest in the UK despite uncertainty over Brexit
  • The Nordics enters the top three with a significant jump compared to 2016
  • London retains the top spot as most popular city to invest in with an increased share, but Berlin shows the biggest increase, moving into second place
  • ‘Pricing’ and ‘Availability of product’ are the biggest obstacles to investing in EMEA real estate
  • Office is the most popular sector: interest in logistics has increased
  • Risk appetite has increased slightly
  • Income related factors such as ‘Yield relative to other asset classes’ are investor’s key motivations for investing in real estate
  The full report is available: https://researchgateway.cbre.com/PublicationListing.aspx?PUBID=6e0d802a-c164-48fd-acb3-1057547a0312 

Another interesting result is the preferred property type:



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Sunday 12 March 2017

How secure are you when buying off-plan property in Germany?

Buying Off-Plan Properties, i.e. properties that are not yet as they are supposed to be according to the purchase contract, can be seen as risky. This could be a family house or a condo yet to be built or renovated. There is a building specification and some material samples trying to describe what the property should look like when it is finished.
In an ideal world for the buyer, no money changes hands before the project is finished and the result is satisfactory. For the developer, there is the worry if the buyer can and will pay once the project is finished.
In the German legal system, there is a regulation with a monstrosity of a name: Makler- und Bauträger Verordnung (MaBV),  which can be translated as Agent and Developer Ordinance - not much better. I will ignore the part dealing with agents for this purpose.
This ordinance regulates when and under which conditions a developer is allowed to take money from a buyer or the buyer's bank. Yes, this is right, he can not only not ask for the money if the conditions are not fulfilled, he is not even allowed to take it if you offered it - who would?
The regulation defines 13 instalments of the purchase price related to the building progress. Only up to 7 instalments are allowed, meaning that the developer will provide a payment plan which will bundle some of these instalments.

Here is an infographic about the 13 instalments:


Instalments according to MaBV

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