At ProVenture Property, we are pleased to say that our analysis of various property markets across Germany has allowed us to work with our Clients to enter markets and to dispose of investments with a clear strategy.  In short, we have made our Clients a lot of money over the last few years.

There is still some heat in the Germany Market and with many investors now looking to German Property – where should they invest?

ProVenture were active in this market from 2006-2009.  Market features which attracted us at the time were the low prices, different stage of the property cycle as to the rest of developed world, high levels of finance in place and steady rental demand.

The market entered a hold and then sell phase around 2012 when dramatic rental increases coupled with international money flooding in as the city was seen as a rare safe haven in the continuing Euro crisis pushed prices up.   Price levels now seem out of sync with the local economy and wage levels and yields very low, but investors who did participate have done very well indeed during this period of recession in most countries.

This was a key market for ProVenture during the years after the global financial crisis, from 2007.  Our activity continues in this market, primarily in the support of clients who are now selling their investments.  We were attracted to the market for the reasons of very low prices and start of the property cycle and increasing population and developing economy which was as strong as anywhere in the East of the country.   Prices developed from 2007-2013 very well, but are now at levels in most parts of the city which is not fully supported by local economics and is a good market to sell into as our clients now are.

As our travels continue to take us all over Germany, looking to bring you the best investments out there, so we have landed recently on the doorstep of a town called Wilhelmshaven, just a relative stone’s throw from our most successful market of 2012, Bremerhaven, again on Germany’s North Sea coast.

Wilhelmshaven has a great maritime history being inaugurated as the first German naval Port in 1869. It is still currently the largest site of the German Navy with 8,500 military and civilian employees in a city of 81,000 people. Big names supporting the civilian employment here are the French company Thales, who coincidentally just got the £600M contract for servicing all the British Royal Navy submarines over the next 10 years.

Our analysis is that this market is in the stealth phase and with yields currently available at over…read the full article on Wilhelmshaven