
How are things going on the global real estate market? What future challenges does it face? International real estate plaftorm Tranio presents an overview of the main trends that investors can focus on today and for the next year.

Tranio has been working with overseas real estate for more than eight years. Over the past three years, the company has been focussed on development projects, primarily in Germany. Good investment projects are not easy to find in the central European country: there are not enough projects to meet investment demand, and local professional developers can afford to be picky with whom they choose to work.
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Germany does not have a citizenship-by-investment programme like Cyprus, for example. Naturalisation is the only way to become a German national by law.

Booming German property prices have led some experts to predict an impending price decline per square metre in the country. But Boris Eliasson, Head of Tranio in Germany, thinks otherwise; here, he explains why the prices will not stop growing in the near future.

German commercial real estate market is considered to be a seller's market, with high-quality properties getting snapped up, and realtors mostly prefer to work with local clients. But large and riskier transactions are a different matter, requiring increased scrutiny from the buyer, i.e. ‘due diligence’.

The volume of online transactions is growing by about 20% per year. If this trend continues, e-commerce will reach €4.4 trillion annually by 2020. How will this affect street retail properties?

Prices of micro-apartments range from €120,000 to €300,000. Taking into account all expenses and mortgage costs, an investor needs €70,000 to buy an apartment.

Major trends of the year are the growing demand for overseas property and transition from a simple rental business to more complex development and redevelopment projects.

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Independent participation in property redevelopment requires a large budget and business experience in the local market. However, mezzanine loans are making this more accessible to a broader audience.

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This article explains how to earn on renovating and leasing flats, as exemplified by a real project in Munich.

Bavaria is one of the richest states in Germany – real estate in Munich is almost three times more expensive than the national average.

In 2017, Tranio conducted a survey among property agents and representatives of realtors operating in Germany to understand the characteristics of investors from Russia and other CIS countries who bought German commercial property of above €1 million.

Experienced investors know that everything matters when it comes to property purchase, and deciding on a street is as important as choosing a city or a country.