The Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning

Type: News Date 09 December 2022 Housing and commercial real estate in Germany 2021

What are the most important challenges facing the real estate market? This publication summarizes the experiential know-how of real estate experts gained from the annual survey of the "BBSR Real Estate Market Expert Panel".

For many years, the "BBSR Real Estate Market Expert Panel" has assessed the current development of the real estate market. Annual panel interviews focus on economic, location and site issues of the housing and commercial real estate markets (office, retail and logistics). This booklet summarizes the results of the latest interview series, which was implemented at the end of 2021/beginning of 2022.

The survey focused on the following questions:

  • COVID-19: The pandemic and its impact on real estate markets and companies.
  • Mixed-use market trend: from niche to asset class
  • Does economic sentiment differ across market segments?
  • What challenges are seen in the housing real estate market?
  • Is the retail real estate market coming out of its sentiment crash?
  • Home office and demand decline concerning pandemic: what is the outlook for the office real estate market?
  • Are the supply bottlenecks in the logistic real estate market resolving?
Fact sheet
Title:Wohn- und Wirtschaftsimmobilien in Deutschland 2021 –
Ergebnisse des BBSR-Expertenpanel Immobilienmarkt 2021
Authors:Nicole Brack ( nicole.brack@bbr.bund.de ),
Eva Katharina Neubrand ( eva.korinke@bbr.bund.de )
Editor:BBSR
Published:December 2022
ISBN:978-3-98655-025-7
Language:German

For more information, please contact the authors and/or visit our German website.
This publication is only available in German.

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