Investing in German Real Estate

Prof. Dr Florian Hackelberg is Professor of Real Estate Economics and Management at the HAWK University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Holzminden, Germany. Before that, he was a senior manager in the Real Estate Transactions team at PricewaterhouseCoopers, based in Berlin and Shanghai. After studying Civil Engineering and Management in Germany, England and China, Hackelberg received a PhD from the Technical University of Berlin. He also holds a master’s degree in International Relations from the University of Cambridge, where he was awarded the Madingley thesis prize. Hackelberg is a Professional Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS), a member of the RICS Professional Group Valuation and a member of the German Society of Property Researchers (gif). He is also a member of the Höxter committee of valuation experts (Gutachterausschuss). He has written and co-written numerous books and articles on various real estate topics. Dirk Hennig is a transactions partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers, focusing on real estate advisory services. He has over 25 years of hands-on consulting and deals experience from serving multinational clients with their real estate investments in Germany. He has worked in PwC offices in Berlin, Düsseldorf and New York. Hennig has a master’s degree in Engineering from the University of Dresden, and the title of Expert for International Valuation of Real Estate from European Business School, Oestrich-Winkel. He is a board member of the Federal Association of Publicly Appointed, Sworn and Qualified Experts e.V. (BVS); a member of the German Property Federation (ZIA) working group “Accounting and Valuation”; and a member of the Tangible Assets Board of the International Valuation Standards Council (IVSC). He was a member of the working group of the Institute of Public Auditors in Germany (IDW) for the publication of the IDW S 10 standard “Principles for the Valuation of Real Estate”.