Investing in German Real Estate: A practical guide

Investing in one of the most promising real estate markets in Europe offers enormous opportunities. And as with every real estate market, in Germany too, the local framework conditions must be understood and their particularities must be adequately taken into account. The authors are renowned senior executives, real estate advisors and academics, who share here their extensive experience and real life insights from countless real estate investments, covering all aspects of a successful investment process in Germany. Includes: markets, the regulatory framework and investment guidelines.Contents: Essentials for successful real estate investments in Germany Macro-economic structure and dynamics of the German real estate market Real estate investment, trends and strategies Diverse submarkets: residential, offices, retail, hotel and nursing homes Real estate legal, tax and audit frameworks German REITS and ESG in real estate investments Real estate M&A, financing, due diligence and valuations

About the Author

Florian Hackelberg

Prof. Dr. Florian Hackelberg is Professor of Real Estate Economics at the Berlin School of Economics and Law. Prior to this, he worked for many years in the Advisory Real Estate division at PwC in Berlin and Shanghai. After studying civil engineering and management in Germany, England and China, he obtained his doctorate from the Technical University of Berlin and completed a master's degree in International Relations at the University of Cambridge.

Dirk Hennig

Dirk Hennig is a transactions partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers, focusing on real estate advisory services. He has over 25 years of hands-on consulting and deals experience from serving multinational clients with their real estate investments in Germany. He has worked in PwC offices in Berlin, Düsseldorf and New York. Hennig has a master's degree in Engineering from the University of Dresden, and the title of Expert for International Valuation of Real Estate from European Business School, Oestrich-Winkel. He is a board member of the Federal Association of Publicly Appointed, Sworn and Qualified Experts e.V. (BVS); a member of the German Property Federation (ZIA) working group 'Accounting and Valuation'; and a member of the Tangible Assets Board of the International Valuation Standards Council (IVSC). He was a member of the working group of the Institute of Public Auditors in Germany (IDW) for the publication of the IDW S 10 standard 'Principles for the Valuation of Real Estate'.