Chris Bryant, Columnist

Germany’s Property Market Is Looking Very Sickly

Add construction and real estate to the nation’s long list of economic problems

August 31, 2023 at 4:00 AM UTC

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

New Berlin apartment buildings.
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If Germany is once again the sick man of Europe, its ailing property and construction industries are unlikely to provide an antidote.

Following a decade-long property boom fueled by cheap financing, new construction and mortgage demand are collapsing while residential and office project developers are filing for insolvency in droves.