Europe’s real estate revolution

If things go according to plan, next January there could be a fundamental change to the rules under which more than 50% of Europe’s invested real estate is financed. Louise Bowman reports.

Enterprising approach for pub sector

WHEN DEUTSCHE BANK decided not to provide a liquidity injection to its $7.2 billion Grundbesitz Invest open-ended property fund to protect it from a revaluation at the end of 2005, something was clearly afoot in the world of German real estate finance. This kind of thing simply isn’t done – German sponsor banks have always stepped in to buffer these property funds. Deutsche, however, decided simply to offer compensation to investors that had bought in over the previous two years.

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