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According to those surveyed, looking at the investment climate in Germany, France and Great Britain in general, the conditions have improved everywhere — most noticeably in Germany. Here, the investment climate index, a trend barometer for attitudes and expectations of European investors, increased seven points to 71.0 points and is showing tendencies towards a “favourable investment climate”. Great Britain improved by four points to 71.7 points. France — already the top player last year, with 71.4 points — also improved slightly with 72.6 points. Thus, the gap that existed last year in investment behaviour and the expectations of real estate professionals in the three most important European economies has significantly decreased.

The optimism with which real estate investors look to the future, is apparent in the majority (71 percent) of the participants surveyed: They expect economic “improvements” in their company, if not “significant improvements” in the next 12 months. British estimations are above average with 74 percent and the Germans below average with 67 percent. Furthermore — and this is even more evident in the improved investment climate — almost every second real estate investor (46 percent) is announcing higher real estate investments in the next twelve months than the previous year. Of the German investors 41 percent, in France 43 percent and in Great Britain 56 percent of those surveyed want to increase their real estate investments.

Institutional investors not only want to invest more themselves, they are equally —45 percent — convinced the investment readiness of the industry will (clearly) increase. Another 38 percent assume the investment readiness will remain steady. Roughly, 54 percent of those surveyed expect a (clearly) growing interest of foreign investors in the German real estate markets. Amazingly, 61 percent of the German investors in this study shared this opinion. British investors, however, with 37 percent, were not so euphoric. However, 48 percent assume an equally high interest than the previous twelve months — and that was already high. 55 percent of French participants expect an increasing interest in the German real estate markets. This corresponds with the fact that 72 percent of the French real estate investors surveyed said that Germany will play an important role — only 65 percent of British investors and only 60 percent of German investors agreed.