Charles Kingston - REFIRE

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Investment / Markets

Germany’s housing market adjusts to permanent scarcity

Germany's housing shortage has now definitively crossed an important line. What was once treated as a cyclical undersupply

REFIRE News Team 19 Jan 2026

Investment

Property leasing shifts from execution to risk control

As Germany’s real estate markets adjust to sustained tenant bargaining power, leasing is shedding its long-standing role as a

REFIRE News Team 19 Jan 2026

Investment / Markets

A liquidity pause tests Germany’s open-ended residential funds

REFIRE News Team 16 Jan 2026

119 articles

Shrimp

Opinion

The Shrimp, the Pension Fund and the Billion-Euro Cavity

Charles Kingston 30 Dec 2025

REFIRE Report Issue 250

Opinion

The end of the illusion - Germany faces its long reckoning

Charles Kingston 10 Dec 2025

House construction

Investment

Rising permits conceal Germany's looming construction cliff

Charles Kingston 1 Dec 2025

The Olympic Park Munich, built for the 1972 Summer Olympics

Opinion

Germany still knows how to plan — but has it forgotten how to build?

Charles Kingston 10 Nov 2025

Net asset value illustration

Investment / Opinion

Why NAV discounts tell only half the story in German real estate stocks

Charles Kingston 2 Nov 2025

European Central Bank, Frankfurt

Investment

Monetary calm brings little comfort to real estate investors

Charles Kingston 2 Nov 2025

Charles Kingston, REFIRE editor, welcomed the attendees to the first German symposium on Garage Parks

Investment

Conference Report - From curiosity to capital: Garage Parks make their case

Charles Kingston 9 Oct 2025

Illustration - asset rotation

Opinion

Asset rotation can't - and won’t - solve German real estate's structural break

Charles Kingston 8 Oct 2025

Christoph Wittkop, CEO, SONAR Real Estate

Interviews

The inside view from a leading asset manager

Charles Kingston 7 Oct 2025

Stefan Jung, managing partner, Trias Real Estate Finance, at the REFIRE Garage Parks Conference

Investment

Garage parks move from niche to bankable asset class

Charles Kingston 7 Oct 2025

Piggy bank

Opinion

The €10 band-aid: how Germany created a generation of financial dependents

Charles Kingston 23 Sep 2025

Self-storage

Interviews

Gerhardt Braun: "We help create space that grows with people and gives them back a bit of freedom"

Charles Kingston 21 Aug 2025