
Tenants Fees Act 2019 restricts landlords from charging tenants additional fees.

Many of our clients at Tranio are individuals with budgets starting from €100,000, who want to invest in property abroad. While skimming the market, it may seem like this amount is not enough to buy a decent income-generating property in Europe in locations where quality commercial spaces go for no less than €5 million, while small retail facilities can fetch anywhere between €3-5 million.

By the end of 2017, seven out of ten people in the EU were living in their own homes. However, more than a half of Germany’s population now rent housing, and according to forecasts by Trading Economics, this trend is only going to grow. Tranio looks into why Germans are opting to rent rather than buy.

The volume of German property transactions reached €53bn in 2017, which was twice that of 2012. JLL experts expect the transaction volume to reach €60bn in 2018. So why are investors increasing their spending in the German property market?

People are embarking on more short-term travel holidays — aka luxury micro trips — than ever before, and the short-term luxury residential property rental market is booming as a result. Airbnb, never one to miss a trick, has launched the Airbnb Luxe platform, which offers thousands of hi-spec luxury apartments in classy areas from $1,000 a night to cater for this growing market. Tranio explains why there are so many people willing to splash the big bucks on short trips.

The volume of real estate transactions related to luxury property has steadily increased from the turn of the Great Recession in 2011 to 2018. And with signs of a looming global economic slowdown, high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs) are looking to diversify their portfolio with non-traditional investments—as opposed to the standard set of equities and bonds—including luxury real estate.

From 2013-16, the number of Russians buying international real estate tailed off before the trend reversed – for the last three years a healthy increase in cross-border investment has been registered. This upward trajectory rocketed in H1 2019, boasting a $96 million increase on the previous year. Tranio explains the situation in more detail.

The Senate of Berlin has approved a controversial law that will prevent landlords from hiking rents in the city. Tranio looks into how the new regulation will affect overseas/foreign investors’ demand for real estate in Berlin.

International economists have recently been discussing the possibility of a new global economic crisis, which, according to certain estimates, may be hovering ominously on the horizon. With this in mind, experts at Tranio explain what lessons can be learned from the financial crisis that battered the world at the beginning of the 21st century.

The share of offline sales in retail has been decreasing due to the growth of the online segment. Analysts at Tranio international real estate platform outline options for innovative retail technologies (ReTech) for retail stores to help reverse this trend.

Ekaterina Raznikova, Tranio Partner Relations Manager in 2017-2019, describes her career path.

Real estate investments are made to last – the average investment term is about five years. For this reason, before buying property in Greece, foreign investors weigh up factors including national economic growth, political stability, and the likelihood of market overheating.

The results of the Catalan referendum could not but affect the state of both the Catalonian and the Spanish real estate market as a whole. Experts and investors have made various forecasts. But, how have things turned out in the beginning of 2019?

Universities are unable to provide all students with accommodation: private investors are helping to fill the void.

What made the European commercial real estate market tick last year, and what do investors expect in the future?