Although Hillary Clinton is a long way ahead of the left-wing populist Sanders in terms of delegates, she is now under the greatest pressure.

Trump has made massive progress in the opinion polls and opened up a significant lead over his main Democatic rival. And yet it's not so long ago that Hillary Clinton had built up a seemingly unassailable double-digit lead over Trump.

Two thirds of Germans, according to a recent survey, regret that Barack Obama is not allowed to campaign for a third term as president of the USA.

There is only one topic in the American media right now: Trump, Clinton and Sanders. The two outsiders (Trump and Sanders), whose serious chances of becoming their party's presidential nominees were almost universally dismissed from the outset, line up against Clinton, the representative of the political establishment.

There are just two overwhelming issues dominating the news on American television right now. The first is Donald Trump. The second concerns the heated debate about who should be allowed to use male and female bathrooms. So just how are these two issue related?

I am writing this from New York, where I am currently based. One of the things that has already struck me is just how different the view of Donald Trump is here compared with what people think in Germany and Europe. Yes, Trump is just as much a polarising figure in the USA. But, whereas almost all Germans - irrespective of their political leanings - are unanimous in their decisive rejection of Trump, the situation is quite different here.

No-one has been more enthusiastic about investing in the German housing sector over the last ten years than me. Or can you name another real estate expert who has recommended investments in residential real estate as frequently, as passionately and for as long? The fact that I have been right all along is confirmed by a glance at the MSCI German Real Estate Index (DIX). The index shows that the annualised total return (= sum of capital gains and net cash flow yields) for German real estate as a whole over the last ten years stands at 4.4 percent, whereas residential real estate has delivered 6.9 percent.