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2 weeks ago | 
boersen-zeitung.de | Thomas List
It is truly a tragedy when one considers the performance of the Swiss bank Julius Bär. There was the huge loss from its involvement with the bankrupt real estate developer René Benko – no less than 606 million Swiss francs. This was followed by a further 130 million Swiss francs in value adjustments this year, probably due to an unsuccessful real estate project in Hanover.
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3 weeks ago | 
boersen-zeitung.de | Thomas List
Ultra-wealthy families view a global trade war as the biggest threat to their investments in the year ahead, according to a UBS survey of 317 family offices. The survey was conducted online between January 22 and April 4, with additional in-depth interviews carried out between April 9 and May 7 to reflect recent developments.
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1 month ago | 
boersen-zeitung.de | Thomas List
A large part of German residential property stock is at risk of becoming stranded assets in the coming years. Paul Tech, a heating supplier and building automation specialist founded in 2017, offers an interesting way, both ecologically and economically, to prevent this from happening.
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1 month ago | 
boersen-zeitung.de | Thomas List
Mixed usage consisting of offices, flats and retail in newly constructed high-rise buildings are intended to revitalise Frankfurt's central business district (CBD). One example is FOUR on the former Deutsche Bank site on Junghofstrasse. „We want to open up the neighbourhood,“ Jens Hausmann, Managing Director of property developer Groß & Partner, recently told the press in Frankfurt.
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2 months ago | 
boersen-zeitung.de | Thomas List
There were men (practically no women) who started at a company as apprentices at the age of 16, worked their way up to CEO over the decades and then, after almost 50 years of service and without a cooling-off period, moved directly to the Supervisory Board at retirement age to remain Chairman until they were 70 or older. Today, this is no longer conceivable. Not only because formal and informal rules no longer allow such a seamless transition to a supervisory body.
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2 months ago | 
boersen-zeitung.de | Thomas List
Interest in infrastructure investments continues unabated, and in Germany high net worth individuals are now also beginning to show an interest. „There are some semi-liquid investment opportunities on the market specifically for this group of investors – demand is extremely high there,“ says Dominik von Scheven, Managing Director and member of the global infrastructure investment committee at Hamilton Lane, an investment manager specialising in private markets.
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2 months ago | 
boersen-zeitung.de | Thomas List
In the coming years, real estate loans worth several hundred billion euros will need to be repaid, and experts expect a financing gap in the double-digit billion-euro range. In an interview with Börsen-Zeitung, Patrick Züchner, Chief Investment Officer at Aukera Real Estate, a real estate debt investment manager founded in 2020, notes that bank interest rates are currently between 4% and 4.5%. But many existing loans were made under much more favourable conditions.
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2 months ago | 
boersen-zeitung.de | Thomas List
A special fund of up to 500 billion euros for infrastructure modernization: What does that mean? The explanatory note to the law states that it specifically targets civil protection, transport infrastructure, hospital investment, energy infrastructure, investment in education, and scientific infrastructure, as well as research & development, and digitalization. It is clear that this primarily addresses the public sector. The focus is on bridges, roads, schools, administrative buildings.
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Mar 26, 2025 | 
boersen-zeitung.de | Thomas List |Detlef Fechtner
Transaction activity in the German real estate market is expected to gain momentum in 2025, according to forecasts by the international real estate service provider and investment manager JLL. „We anticipate a transaction volume of approximately 40 billion euros this year, up from 35.3 billion euros in the previous year“, says Konstantin Kortmann, CEO Germany at JLL, in an interview with Börsen-Zeitung. However, compared to the 10-year average of 80 billion euros, activity remains low.
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Feb 19, 2025 | 
boersen-zeitung.de | Thomas List
The provision and maintenance of roads, schools, and power plants have traditionally been considered the domain of the state. However, for years, increasing amounts of private capital have been flowing into these and many other infrastructure facilities. Public funds are becoming increasingly insufficient to finance these essential services, without which a society cannot function.
