To get straight to the point: Indirect real estate investments in Germany are defined by quite a variety of different vehicles, and this is not about to change. Unlike in other countries, where publicly listed companies (including REITs) dominate the market for indirect real estate investments, closed-end and open-ended real estate funds exist side by side with institutional real estate […]

Germany is undergoing a shift to the left because the next Bundestag will seat only parties that pursue a more or less Social Democrat policy. The CDU bloc will enter into a coalition either with the SPD or with the Greens. This will further weaken the free-market liberal wing of the Christian Democrats, which lacks clout anyway. Add to this that the upper house, the Bundesrat, is also dominated by three left-leaning parties. As it is, they will have a majority in either house.