Despite the geopolitical uncertainties looming in the year
ahead, the outlook for European real estate remains positive with a
broadly supportive economic backdrop and bullish market sentiment.
Even Spain, one of the hardest hit European countries during the
2008 financial crisis, has come back strongly and is now seen as
one of the stable investment bets in the region.
"Germany replaces the UK as Europe's Number 1 safe
haven'' A number of institutional investors are betting on
Germany as one of the winning locations and they are not alone.
Transaction volumes in Germany overtook the UK for the first time
in 2016 since 2012, due to the cooling down of the London market in
particular. Thomas Barrack, CEO of US private equity company Colony
Capital, and incidentally one of Trump's key advisors, believes
that Europe as a whole represents a big opportunity. Interestingly,
his firm has also been targeting Germany, in particular Berlin, as
well as markets such as Ireland,
