Real Estate Business Issue 6/2015

News

• Winterthur: "Superblock" opens
• Zurich: Living with service on Europaallee
• Arbon: Start of construction for "Wohnen plus
• Lugano: New luxury hotel
• PKs: Real estate in focus
• Zermatt: New owner for Hotel Monte Rosa
• Bern: "BElive Center" one step further
• Basel: Green light for Spital Tower
• Gossau: Topping out for Implenia project
• CS REF Global: Capital increase
• Novavest: New convertible bond

Trends

• The pressure is getting stronger
• Shopping centers lack third-place quality
• New HWZ "Center Management" course
• Buying spree with downsides
• Living on the golf course
• Apartments in golf resorts are coming into fashion - as a vacation home or capital investment

Markets and Investment

• Tap the swarm
• First Swiss platform for real estate crowdfunding about to launch

Cover story

• Unlimited demand
• Private investors from Germany and Austria discover listed Swiss real estate funds
• Urge to the parquet
• Profit-taking in real estate companies: Investors gear up for new IPOs.

Architecture and site development

• "Real estate marketing means conveying identity"
• Strategic marketing gains importance in location development

Asset and portfolio management

• Tutoring in orderer competence
• SVIT launches new FM textbook
• Cradle to Cradle makes school

Residential

• Quo vadis, condominium ownership?

Service

• Agenda/Review
• Asking rents

Foreign markets

• Vienna Calling
• International investors discover the Vienna apartment house market

Real Estate Financial Markets

• Interview of the Month: Luciano Gabriel, PSP Swiss Property Ltd
• Futura Immo Fonds: Fresh money
• CS REF Interswiss: Capital increase
• ECE Fund: Investment in Italy
• Union Investment: New wind farm
• Goodman: Logistics deal in Hamburg
• Deka Immobilien: Disinvestment in Sweden
• Greenman: bulk purchase in Germany
• Savills: More megadeals in Europe
• Cushman & Wakefield: Rising rents
• Züblin Immobilien: Change in the BoD
• Swiss Prime Site: Capital increase
• Column: No reason to panic
• Universal Investments: Purchasing in Japan
• Patrizia: Entry into UK rental housing market
• C&W/DTZ: Major merger in the brokerage market
• Final Performer: Invesco

Condominium ownership

• "What to look for when buying"