Union Investment

Investment Climate Index

bereichsbild Investor survey: The search for growth: Germany and Poland seen as winners of the debt crisis
The debt crisis in Europe is turning into a stress test for European property markets - and forcing investors to recalibrate their investment strategies. Germany in particular should benefit from increased risk aversion. Investors have greater confidence in Germany's resilience to the impact of the euro crisis on the domestic property market than any other country.
 
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February 2012
bereichsbild Real estate investment climate driven by wider economic conditions
- Investment Climate Index for real estate reaches new all-time high in Germany - Economic weakness undermining investor confidence in France and UK
 
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August 2011
bereichsbild Calling all investors!
Opportunity to take part in the “Property Investment in Europe” follow-up study
 
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April 2010
bereichsbild Property investment climate
Graphic: Investment climate index - period 2005-2009 - countries: Germany, France, United Kingdom
 
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December 2009
bereichsbild Investor survey: green buildings set to become separate asset class
Union Investment survey confirms growing interest in sustainable real estate investment in Europe: A significant number of property investment projects will incorporate sustainability criteria in the future, greatly increasing the likelihood of a separate asset class for green buildings emerging over the next few years. That is one of the findings of a recent survey by Union Investment involving over 220 investment decision makers at property companies and institutional real estate investors in Europe. 63% of the real estate experts surveyed in Germany, France and the UK intend to invest "significantly more" in sustainable buildings in the future, while some 60% stated that sustainability criteria are already an established part of their investment strategy.... more
 
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February 2010
bereichsbild European property investors reengage with the markets
Union Investment's Investment Climate Index up for the second time in succession / Sentiment in core European markets still affected by economic uncertainty / British investors leading the way again and taking on more risk:The recovery of European property investment markets is slowly getting under way. Having slammed on the brakes in the wake of the Lehman Brothers collapse, professional property investors in Germany, France and the UK long remained extremely cautious. At the start of 2010, investor optimism in the three biggest European economies is now considerably more buoyant than observers would have expected in early and mid-2009.... more
 
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January 2010