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Deutsche Welle view on German Real Estate

“The age of cheap loans has well and truly dawned. Germany in particular is witnessing a building boom with Berlin at the epicentre. Experts predict an ongoing real estate boom, with some already warning about a bubble.”

So begins an intriguing video last month on Deutsche Welle’s Media Centre, in a report by Christian Pricelius he asks the question, “Real estate – boom or bubble?” http://www.dw.com/en/real-estate-boom-or-bubble/av-18462331

German real estate investment for non-Germans has had a somewhat dubious reputation. In 1989 when the wall fell, optimism was everywhere and this extended also into property market.

However while East Berlin cheaper properties were popular, prices in West Berlin fell correspondingly and after what was a short bubble it then quickly faltered. One could even say that pessimism and decline set into the Berlin property market.

Now in 2015, Berlin with international technology and media companies making the city home, has seen property prices rising by up to 50% . This was not only a Berlin phenomenon, because German cities in general saw price rises more than any other EU country.

Germany has one of the lowest rates of home ownership in Europe and in Berlin just 15% of the populace own property. However the figure is rising…..slowly.


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