Chris Bryant, Columnist

German Property is Looking More Like London

Low rates, supply shortage, refugees fueling demand

March 23, 2016 at 8:14 AM UTC

Chris Bryant is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering industrial companies in Europe. Previously, he was a reporter for the Financial Times.

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While Berlin hasn't quite turned into London-on-Spree, Germany's residential property market is having a moment.

Germans' fondness for renting homes instead of buying them, fairly flat house-price growth plus rather dismal demographic trends all made the country's property market look distinctly pedestrian for many years.