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Düsseldorf office take-up in Q3 2025 reached 58,900 m² (a 7.1% increase year-over-year), but large-scale leases above 5,000 m² were absent, with cumulative nine-month take-up 18% below the five-year average. Prime rents rose to €46.00/m² (up 2.2% quarterly), while office vacancy increased to 10.8% (1.02 million m²), with demand concentrating on modern, ESG-compliant space in central locations while older peripheral stock faced higher vacancy pressure.

Berlin's office market recorded 366,400 square meters of take-up in the first nine months of 2025, down 12% year-on-year and 27% below the five-year average, driven by weak demand from the ICT and public sectors and a shortage of large-scale deals. The market faces subdued economic sentiment among companies citing policy concerns, though Berlin's GDP grew 1.3% in the first half of 2025, vacancy reached 9.8% with 2.11 million square meters available, prime rents remained stable at €45.00 per square meter per month while average rents declined 6% to €26.85, and the outlook anticipates continued vacancy growth exceeding 11% by 2026 despite expected economic recovery from 2026 onwards.

Düsseldorf's office market recorded 39,000 square meters of take-up in the first quarter of 2025, representing a 39 percent decline from the prior year quarter and 53 percent below the ten-year average of 83,000 square meters, driven by a shortage of larger contracts. Prime rents increased 4 percent year-on-year to €43.50 per square meter, while average rents stabilized at €18.90 per square meter amid subdued leasing activity.

This is a market report published by CBRE in December 2025 covering the logistics sector in Hamburg, Germany.

Hamburg's office rental market achieved space take-up of approximately 393,600 m² in 2025, representing a 5 percent decline from the previous year, with 433 total transactions recorded across 100 deals in the final quarter characterized by small-scale lettings. Top rents rose 5.7 percent to £37.00/m² and weighted average rents increased 7.5 percent to £22.80/m², while the vacancy rate stabilized at 6.4 percent with 206,000 m² of completions during the year, of which 81 percent of completed projects were pre-let.

Hamburg's office market recorded 401,000 sqm of take-up in 2025, only 4.5% below the prior year despite macroeconomic headwinds, with prime rents rising 5.6% to €38.00/sqm and a first major deal exceeding €40/sqm signaling sustained upward pressure in the premium segment. Vacant space increased 22% to 924,000 sqm (6.3% vacancy rate), while available space under construction fell to 103,000 sqm, reflecting tight supply of high-quality first-time occupancy space that is driving competition and rent growth in top locations.

Hamburg's residential market recorded the highest rental growth among Germany's eight largest cities in H2 2025, with median offered rents reaching €18.12/m² and growing 9.03 percent annually, while new construction rents surged 12.4 percent year-over-year and 57.7 percent over five years. Across the Big 8 cities analyzed, median offered rents averaged €18.17/m² with 4.4 percent annual growth in H2 2025, though construction completions fell to a 2015-era low of 251,900 units in 2024 with further declines expected in 2025–2026, creating persistent supply shortages despite policy interventions including October 2025's "Bau-Turbo-Gesetz.

Hamburg's office rental market recorded 396,400 square meters of space transactions in 2025, a 5.2% decline from 2024, with prime rents rising 8.6% to €38.00 per square meter and average rents increasing 10.4% to €22.30 per square meter, while the vacancy rate rose 110 basis points to 5.5%. The investment market achieved €1.86 billion in transaction volume (down 1.3% year-over-year), with office properties representing 41% of total volume at a prime yield of 4.6%, and family offices comprising the largest buyer group at 25% of transactions.

Hamburg's investment market achieved €1.3 billion in transaction volume during the first three quarters of 2025, a 27% increase from the same period in 2024 and the strongest three-year result, with office properties leading at €500 million and approximately 50 transactions averaging €28 million per deal. Prime yields remained stable across office (4.25%) and retail (3.75%) segments, while logistics yields rose 15 basis points to 4.40% in Q3, with major transactions including the Pflege & Wohnen care facilities portfolio sale and the Atlantic Haus office tower contributing to market momentum despite the overall German market's decline.

Hamburg's office rental market recorded 311,500 m² of space transacted in the first three quarters of 2025, representing a 7.4% increase year-over-year, with prime rents holding steady at €36.00/m² and average rents rising 4.4% to €21.50/m². The investment market showed stronger momentum with €1.4 billion in commercial transaction volume (up 80.2% year-over-year), with office properties accounting for 35% of total volume at a prime yield of 4.6%, down 40 basis points from the prior year.

In the first quarter of 2026, German commercial property transactions totaled €6.5 billion, representing a 25% increase year-over-year, with office properties comprising 26% of the market share and international capital accounting for 43% of transaction activity. The report projects a 10-15% increase in annual transaction volume to approximately €30 billion, contingent on stable geopolitical conditions, though geopolitical uncertainties and rising energy costs present downside risks to the market recovery.
In Q1 2026, the Munich office lettings market achieved 139,200 m² of take-up, virtually unchanged from Q1 2025 (138,100 m²), with activity stabilized by large deals including an E.ON lease exceeding 20,000 m² at Landsberger Straße, though the number of transactions fell 57 percent to 82 deals. Prime rents rose to €56.00/m² (a 3.7 percent year-on-year increase), average rents reached €27.10/m² (up 3.8 percent annually), and the office vacancy rate increased to 8.8 percent from 7.6 percent in the prior year, with modern Grade A properties showing disproportionately high vacancy increases despite remaining easily lettable.

In the first quarter of 2026, approximately €420 million was invested in Berlin's commercial real estate market, representing a 57% decline compared to Q1 2025, with Berlin ranking second among the top seven German cities. Net prime yields increased across asset classes during the twelve-month period, rising to 4.35% for offices, 3.95% for high street retail, and 4.50% for logistics properties, while investor interest remained strong despite challenging economic conditions and delayed transaction timelines due to financing adjustments.

This is a market report on the office sector in Munich published by BNP Paribas Real Estate in the first quarter of 2026. The report covers office market conditions and activity in Munich, Germany.
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This is a market report published by Savills in December 2025 covering the office letting market in Munich, Germany during the fourth quarter of 2025.

The report analyzes Berlin's office market in Q4 2025, finding overall take-up of around 486,000 sqm representing a 16% decline year-over-year, though smaller and medium-sized deals increased 17% while larger contracts above 5,000 sqm fell significantly by 71%. Prime rents in Berlin increased 4% to €47 per square meter, with Mitte, Charlottenburg/Tiergarten, and Kreuzberg/Neukölln as leading markets by take-up, and location quality remaining the primary driver of leasing decisions across the city.

Frankfurt's office market achieved take-up of 611,000 square meters in 2025, representing a 53.5% increase year-over-year and the first time the market exceeded 600,000 square meters since 2019, making it Germany's strongest office market. Prime rents rose 10.2% to €54.00 per square meter while average rents increased 28% to €30.20 per square meter, driven by strong demand from banks, financial services, and consulting firms including major contracts with Commerzbank, ING-DiBa, and Allianz Global Investors, though vacant space increased 10.4% to 1.88 million square meters and the outlook for 2026 projects take-up above 500,000 square meters with prime rents approaching the €60 per square meter mark.

This is a market report published by Colliers on December 31, 2025, covering office leasing and investment activity in Munich, Germany during the fourth quarter of 2025.

This is a market report published by CBRE on December 31, 2025, covering the logistics sector in Munich, Germany during the fourth quarter of 2025.
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In 2025, Munich's commercial real estate investment market generated approximately 2.4 billion euros in transaction volume, representing a 12 percent decline from 2024 and 53 percent below the ten-year average, with retail properties leading by volume at 930 million euros followed by office properties at 580 million euros. Prime yields for offices stood at 4.0 percent at end-December 2025 (down 10 basis points from the prior quarter), while retail properties maintained a 3.9 percent prime yield, with transactions concentrated within the Altstadt Ring and increasingly dominated by private capital, particularly in insolvency sales where banks have begun accepting more realistic valuations.

This JLL report covers Germany's housing market in the second half of 2025 across eight major cities (Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt, Dusseldorf, Stuttgart, and Leipzig), analyzing rental and condominium price developments, construction activity, and supply-demand dynamics. Key findings include: rental growth in the Big-8 cities averaged +4.4 percent annually with significant variation by city (Hamburg +9.0 percent, Berlin +0.2 percent); condominium prices showed recovery with median growth of +2.9 percent in Munich and +5.3 percent in Dusseldorf; construction completions declined to preliminary lows of 251,900 units in 2024 and projected at 220,000–230,000 for 2025; and all analyzed cities face supply deficits ranging from 10 to 40 units per 10,000 inhabitants, with 2026 expected to mark the lowest completion point before recovery.

The BNP Paribas Real Estate Q4 2025 Investment Market Berlin report covers Berlin's real estate transaction volume of €3.25 billion, down 8.5% from the previous year but slightly exceeding the three-year average. The report notes that Berlin maintained its position as the leading A-location in Germany, with the largest transaction being the Upper West sale for over €400 million, and reports prime yields of 4.25% for offices, 3.85% for premium retail, and 4.50% for logistics properties.

Frankfurt's commercial real estate investment market recorded €770 million in transaction volume during 2025, a 52.6% decline from 2024, with no deals exceeding €100 million and a weakened office segment representing only 40% of investments compared to its long-term average of two-thirds. The document notes that a substantial pipeline of large-volume properties including Opernturm, Westend Duo, Trianon, and the Wave are in advanced negotiation stages, and forecasts a significant recovery in 2026 driven by strong office leasing fundamentals with 611,000 square meters of space concluded.

The Berlin logistics market recorded 425,000 square meters of take-up in 2025, representing a 55% increase compared to 2024, driven primarily by larger deals above 20,000 square meters which accounted for 35% of total take-up and by strong demand in central, inner-city locations. Prime rents for logistics space with unit sizes above 5,000 square meters rose to €8.25 per square meter, while significantly higher rents were achieved for smaller light industrial spaces within Berlin's city boundaries.

Berlin's office market recorded 362,000 sqm of take-up in the first three quarters of 2025, approximately 14% lower than the prior year, though demand in smaller segments up to 5,000 sqm reached 320,000 sqm, the highest level since 2019. Prime rents increased 2% in Q3 and 4% year-on-year to €47/sqm, with city zones accounting for 60% of take-up and holding 71% of under-construction space.

The Berlin logistics market recorded take-up of 320,000 sqm in Q3 2025, representing a 50% increase year-over-year and returning demand to positive territory after weakness in the prior year, though this figure is 11% below the long-term average when excluding the Tesla plant's outsized 2022 contribution. Rents show a two-tier market with inner-city smaller warehouses exceeding €10 per sqm due to high demand, while large-scale prime and average rents stabilized at €8.20 per sqm and €7.20 per sqm respectively on the city's outskirts.

Frankfurt's office market achieved 457,900 m² of take-up in the first three quarters of 2025, representing 77% growth over the five-year average and 30% above the full-year 2024 result, driven primarily by the Banking and Financial Sector's 151,000 m² contribution and anchored by Commerzbank's 73,000 m² lease of the Central Business Tower. The prime rent increased to €52.00/m²/month (up 7.2% year-over-year), the vacancy rate stood at 11.5%, and Cushman & Wakefield forecasts full-year take-up between 525,000 and 550,000 m² with no further prime rent growth expected by year-end.

Frankfurt's office market recorded 338,600 square meters of take-up in the first half of 2025, representing 86% growth compared to the prior year, with the vacancy rate at 11.1% and prime rent reaching €51.00 per square meter per month as of Q2 2025. The business climate index in Hesse improved to 95 points in early summer 2025, driven by a special government fund decision, though companies identified general economic conditions, domestic demand, and labor costs as primary risks to their development.

The Frankfurt logistics market achieved 251,000 square meters of total take-up in the first half of 2025, driven by a strong second quarter of 188,000 square meters that exceeded the ten-year average, with major deals including Eli Lilly's 50,000 square meter pharmaceutical production facility and large-volume transactions above 20,000 square meters representing 39.6 percent of activity. Prime rents remained stable at €8.20 per square meter and average rents at €7.00 per square meter, both showing year-over-year increases of 3.1 percent and 4.5 percent respectively, while the market faces ongoing supply shortages in high-demand areas despite the momentum in large-space leasing.
At the 2026 ULI Europe Conference in Berlin, speakers argued that Europe's future competitiveness will depend less on matching the scale of the United States or China and more on leveraging its strengths in governance, resilience, capital formation, and its network of highly livable cities.

Europe's hotel construction pipeline reached 1,731 projects comprising 255,354 rooms at Q1 2026, representing a 3% year-over-year increase, with the early planning stage hitting a record-high 604 projects and 86,128 rooms. The United Kingdom, Turkey, Germany, France, and Portugal account for 46% of projects in the region's pipeline, and Europe is forecast to see 319 new hotels with 44,156 rooms open by the end of 2026.

Europe's hotel construction pipeline stood at 1,731 projects comprising 255,354 rooms at the close of Q1 2026, representing a 3% year-over-year increase, with early planning stage projects reaching a record high of 604 projects/86,128 rooms. The report forecasts 319 new hotels with 44,156 rooms to open across Europe by year-end 2026, with the United Kingdom, Turkey, Germany, France, and Portugal accounting for 46% of the region's pipeline projects.

Partially a 'Green' loan — multiple assets hold BREEAM 'Very Good'/'Excellent' ratings. Closed 31 Mar 2026; announced 12 May 2026. Aareal acted as arranger, facility agent and security agent; CBRE valued, DLA advised legally. Rate/tenor not disclosed.

In its 23rd edition, the report found sentiment shifting from cautious optimism to pragmatism, with the share of leaders concerned about deglobalisation more than doubling to 70 percent, while London, Madrid, Paris and Berlin led the city rankings.