Publications

Levelling up is a condition for a nation’s wellbeing and is key to building sustainable communities for the future. RITTERWALD directors Austen Reid and Ad Hereijgers provide tips on how levelling up can work to create sustainable urban regeneration.

Across Europe, social housing is being delivered and operated in a highly regulatory environment. Although smaller in tenure than homeownership, social housing is regarded as a professional risk- adjusted asset class that attracts private ESG investors.

Sustainability is the most important megatrend of our times, which also makes it the top subject on the agenda for the real estate industry. RITTERWALD took a closer look at the sustainability reports published by the top 50 companies in the German housing sector.

The development of the benchmark interest rate has great effects on average interest rates in the real estate sector. The residential real estate sector needs to actively prepare for a change in market conditions in order to avoid being doubly punished by a reversal in the trend and the associated rise in interest rates.

Thanks to the continuing boom in the country’s real estate sector, Germany’s residential property companies—once considered dull and outdated—are now seen as a stable source of returns with potential for growth. But what if the market cools down?

RITTERWALD has undergone a study to not only provide insights on the French, Dutch and German markets respectively, but also to understand how in these regulated markets, the role of institutional investors is being affected by the public debate.