Best Charles Kingston Podcasts (2024)

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Blockchain: what does it mean for Germany’s real estate market? 8:29

5y ago8:29

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Blockchain may be best known for powering Bitcoin but blockchain-based smart contracts could play a much larger role in the commercial real estate space.Blockchain is starting to filter through to the German real estate market, with many in the industry hoping to gain a major competitive edge if they embrace it head-on. Some real estate investors a…

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Multifamily investment tops new high of EUR40bn 4:35

5y ago4:35

4:35

Germany accounts for lion’s share of multifamily investmentMultifamily investment reached a new high of EUR40bn across eight European markets, including Germany, tracked by Savills last year, the highest ever recorded and up 27% on 2017.By Sara Seddon-Kilbinger

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All Trumped out, as Frau Merkel sets determined new course 7:02

7y ago7:02

7:02

This was the week that a shaken Angela Merkel told her fellow citizens in a Munich beer hall...This was the week that a shaken Angela Merkel told her fellow citizens in a Munich beer hall that the EU must now be prepared to look after itself, and cast aside any expectations of solidarity with erstwhile partners the UK and the US. After she’d had se…

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German government mulls change to crowdfunding regulation 4:19

7y ago4:19

4:19

The German government is mulling changes to crowdfunding regulation that would subject it to the same scrutiny as senior lending and publically-raised equity.Currently, crowdfunding regulation in Germany states that it is exempt from the kind of regulatory controls imposed on senior lending and publically-raised equity, which are heavily regulated.…

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German government to abolish tax advantages on share deals 4:59

7+ y ago4:59

4:59

The German government is gearing up to abolish share deals that enable corporations to wriggle out of paying the Grunderwerbsteuer - or property transfer tax - that regular citizens are obliged to pay, in a move that would generate a sizeable windfall for A traditional loophole for companies to avoid taxation on their German real estate investment …

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Faith in German bricks and mortar, as the tide of revolution recedes 7:25

7+ y ago7:25

7:25

“Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.”As Gary Lineker famously com- mented, “Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.” Nowadays, in the shadow of Brexit, the world of real estate is beginning to feel a little…

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In God we trust. All others must bring hard data. 6:35

7+ y ago6:35

6:35

The latest MIPIM in Cannes was, by almost universal consent, one of the most mellow and easygoing in recent years, at least for German participants.The latest MIPIM in Cannes was, by almost universal consent, one of the most mellow and easygoing in recent years, at least for German participants. The uninterrupted sunshine, the positive mood in the …

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All change at Germany’s SPD while election battle lines get re-drawn 6:37

7+ y ago6:37

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January 25th, 2017Germany’s left-of-centre SPD , the junior partner in the governing coalition in Berlin with Angela Merkel’s CDU/CSU grouping, has been at the forefront of a new drive to dampen the country’s residential housing boom, now entering its seventh year.By Charles Kingston

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Grab that German life-boat while you can, ahead of a ‘train-crash’ Brexit 6:18

7+ y ago6:18

6:18

December 21st, 2016The big institutional players are all convinced that 2017 will see – yet again heightened demand for investment in real estate. This applies particularly to Germany, whose status as a safe haven has only strengthened as the number of economic imponderables elsewhere have multiplied.…

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Die Gedanken sind frei, wer kann sie erraten...? 6:39

7+ y ago6:39

6:39

November 29th, 2016One of the perks of editing a publication like REFIRE is the opportunity it affords your editor to hang out with people who can see into the future. Their relationship with their crystal ball, tea leaves, tarot cards, goats’ entrails or other favoured form of divination helps them steer an unerring path through the most turbulent…