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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

Opinion

14 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

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

Illustration - asset rotation

Opinion

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

Charles Kingston 8 Oct 2025

Piggy bank

Opinion

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

Charles Kingston 23 Sep 2025

A wooden tiny house under construction

Opinion

Germany’s housing gridlock is blocking even modest fixes

Charles Kingston 2 Aug 2025

The Reichstag in Berlin

Opinion

What German real estate needs now - more than ever - is governability

Charles Kingston 6 Jul 2025

Property management

Opinion / Investment

Asset-, Property-, and Facility-Management - can they be streamlined?

Charles Kingston 16 Jun 2025

Modular building

Opinion

Modular building awaits the green light to help tackle Germany’s housing shortage

Charles Kingston 6 Jun 2025

Bank signage

Opinion

Germany’s real estate NPL market isn't frozen - it's in denial

Charles Kingston 8 May 2025

A busy highway

Opinion

Stuck in traffic: Germany’s infrastructure meltdown won’t be solved by €500 billion alone

Charles Kingston 4 Apr 2025