Transactions in Germany's giant yet troubled property market rose slightly in the first nine months of the year, data from JLL showed, as the global property firm and industry leaders cautioned that a.
Turnover of investment properties from January through September stood at 23.4 billion euros ($25.66 billion), a 5% increase from the previous year in a sign of a bottoming out after a two-year market implosion as the nation went through its worst real-estate crisis in decades.
Falls in prices of commercial and residential property have begun to taper off, with central bank interest rate cuts in both Europe and the United States helping to stabilise the situation, JLL said.
For years, property in Europe and particularly Germany boomed but a sudden jump in interest rates and building costs after the pandemic tipped some developers into insolvency as bank financing dried up and deals froze.
Germany has so far been Europe's hardest hit in a real estate rout that has also struck China and the United States.
The JLL data came as real-estate industry leaders gathered for an annual conference in Munich as the market was in its third year of crisis.
Klara Geywitz, Germany's housing minister, noted that despite some positive indicators, construction permits are still in decline, "which is something we have to address," he said.
