Buying a home in Berlin is generally viewed as single of the safest real estate investments a German, or any European, can build. That is why some real-estate business experts are troubled the market can get overheated. Home prices in Germany biggest cities are now booming. Building permits and home ownership charge are hiking fast. And the fraction of foreigners snapping up second homes in Germany is on the increase.
In Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich and four extra red-hot business markets, prices surged an average of 10% through the first half of 2012, according to Deutsche Bank. German central Bundes bank information show increases of 9% in 2011 in the country urban centers and 5% the year before.
The rate at which real estates of home prices are increasing in Germany is not sustainable in the extended term, says Steffen Sebastian, the chairman of the University of Regensburg s organization for Real Estate Finance. However, Sebastian adds, there won t be a do again in Germany of the Spanish and Irish financial crises, where real estate business markets disintegrated and economies were brought close up to collapse after overextended home buyers and banks were hit by the Great collapse of 2008.