Indices/Reports/News
Court rulings, indices, reports, analyses, personnel changes, news and competitions
from the world of care & (senior) real estate / investment
COLOUR CODES:
– Blue = care, seniors
– Green = real estate, property, financing
Daily updated court rulings from the real estate industry
INDICES
Alphabetical by author/source (current up to 29 October 2026)
- Barkow: Interest rate changes overnight deposits / ECB rate (09.26)
- Barkow: Mortgage financing July 2026 (09.26)
- Barkow: Deposit monitor H1 2026 (08.26)
- BF direkt: Market radar October 2026 (10.26)
- Bulwiengesa: BF quarterly barometer Q3 / 2026 (09.26)
- Bulwiengesa: Real estate index 2026 (09.26)
- CBRE-empirica: Vacancy index 2025 (12.25)
- CBRE: Real Estate Market Outlook Germany 2026 (01.26)
- CBRE: Real Estate Market Outlook Europe – Midyear Review 2026 (08.26)
- Colliers: European Living Snapshot March 2026 (03.26)
- Colliers: EMEA Capital Markets Snapshot Q2/2026 (07.26)
- Deloitte: Property index 2026 (10.26)
- Destatis: Construction and real estate price index August 2026 (10.26)
- Deutsche Hypo: Real estate climate sentiment index October 2026 (10.26)
- DiFi JLL: German Real Estate Finance Index Q3/26 (10.26)
- DKI / DKG: Hospital business climate barometer Q2/2026 (08.26)
- Empirica: Real estate price index Q3/26 (10.26)
- Empirica: Bubble risk index Q2/26 (07.26)
- EPX hedonic: Europace house price index September '26 (10.26)
- FPRE Fahrländer: Real estate meta-analysis October '26 (10.26)
- GREIX: Purchase price index Q2/26 (08.26)
- GREIX: Rental price index Q3/26 (10.26)
- GREIX: Liquidity ratios index Q1/26 (05.26)
- GREIX: Affordability index (04.26)
- Henley & Partners: Global Market Indices & Reports (overview)
- Henley & Partners: Private Wealth Migration Report 2026 (06.26)
- Henley & Partners: Crypto Wealth Report 2026 (09.26)
- IEP: Global Peace Index 2026 (06.26)
- Travelbook: Global Peace Index 2026 – the (least) peaceful countries on earth (06.26)
- ifo: Business climate index October '26 (10.26)
- Immoscout24: Housing barometer Q3/26 (10.26)
- Immotiss: Immotiss Care Index (ICX) (Q2/26)
- Interhyp IW: Affordability index 2026 (07.26)
- Interhyp IW: Real estate price index 2026 – as of October (10.26)
- IW Köln: IW housing index Q3/26 (10.26)
- Kirchhoff: Sentiment indicator real estate shares H2/25 (12.25)
- Lübke Kelber: Return-risk ranking 2026 (01.26)
- Policy Uncertainty: Economic Policy Uncertainty Index September 2026 (10.26)
- RICS: European Commercial Property Monitor Q2/26 (08.26)
- RICS: Global Construction Monitor Q2/26 (08.26)
- Savills: Real estate investment market dashboard Q3/26 (10.26)
- Sprengnetter: Construction price index residential buildings Q3/26 (10.26)
- Sprengnetter: Residential property market August analysis (10.26)
- Sprengnetter: Market activity index (05.26)
- vdp: Real estate price index Q2/26 (08.26/interactive)
- Vornholz: Living in old age (download – 05.26)
- Wüest: Urban heat stress index Germany (06.26)
- Wüest: Real estate market index 2026|3 (08.26)
- ZEW/BDI: Innovation indicator 2025 (11.25)
- ZIA/IW: ISI – real estate sentiment index Q3/2026 (09.26)
- Tripz: Currywurst price index 2026 (01.26)
Daily market prices / important databases (partly behind paywall!)
- German Taxpayers' Association: Municipal database: comparison of terrace fees 2026
- co2online: Free heating cost check (10.26)
- Destatis: Consumer price index and inflation rate – September 2026 (10.26)
- energate: Prices for electricity, gas, hydrogen, oil, coal and CO2
- Handelsblatt: Mortgage calculator
- Henley Global: Passport Index
- IWU: Extensive calculation tools, Excel spreadsheets: EnEV, energy calculation, degree days, energy certificate etc.
- Oanda: Currency converter (bid and ask rates)
- TGA Fachplaner: Free weather data and temperature degree days
- UBA: AGEE-Stat: updated renewable energy statistics – monthly report October 2026 (10.26)
- Value: Value real estate market database – Data Insights Q3/26 (10.26)
Selected news up to week 44 (up to Saturday 29 October 2026)
CARE/Seniors
- Care: How new batteries make humanoid robots fit for everyday use (t3n)
- 616 requirements: Why a care home place in Germany is so expensive (Kölner Stadtanzeiger)
REAL ESTATE / Investments / Finance
- New asbestos rules 2026: tradespeople face fines (Meistertipp)
- Organic solar modules now as semi-transparent PV (Haustec)
- Robotics in construction: construction robots conquer the building site (Meistertipp)
- Legionella: cooling hot water with ultrafiltration (Haustec)
- 3D concrete printing with standard concrete: modular house shows new technology (Meistertipp)
- Asbestos remains the biggest deadly hazard on German construction sites (Meistertipp)
- Building type E: fewer construction standards, lower construction costs (Meistertipp)
Finds
- Railway rails as load-bearing structure (Detail)
- The most stressful flight routes in Europe (Business Traveller)
- Kiosk instead of church: a nun sells cigarettes and shaved ice (Die Zeit)
Current analyses, studies, reports, surveys, monitors, white papers, barometers + atlases/maps/graphics, current up to and including the end of week 44 (up to 29 October 2026)
REAL ESTATE / Investments / Financing / Sustainability
- Banking on Climate Chaos: Fossil Fuel Finance Report 2026 (06.26)
- Bertelsmann/Prognos: Family caregiving (10.26)
- Blackprint/TH Aschaffenburg: PropTech Germany 2026 study (10.26)
- Tattersall.Lorenz.: Manage to Core – development of existing properties (10.26)
- TU Graz/GitHub: Urban mining screening (10.26)
CARE / Seniors / HealthCare
- BMJ Journals: Study: What bachelor-level nurses expect from hospitals (08.26)
- Immotiss: Care Compass (10.26)
ATLASES / MAPS / DATABASES
- ALDIS/BLIDS: Lightning and thunderstorm data ATLAS Germany
- BBSR: Urban climate dashboard
- Belform: Micro Living Atlas 2026
- Böll Foundation: AGRICULTURE and food industry CORPORATE ATLAS
- bpd: Housing weather map 2026
- Correctiv: Map: status of population migration in Europe
- Datapulse: Workation Atlas 2026
- Felt: Water security ATLAS
- GKV: Hospital SIMULATOR
- IKR: Hospital map: emergency hospitals at risk
- Häusler/Höer: Pharmaceuticals ATLAS 2025 Germany
- IW: Care ATLAS 2025
- IW: Interactive residential property price MAP Germany
- Competence Centre Digitalisation & Care: Knowledge MAP digitalisation
- oneqrew: Trades price atlas 2026
- Real Estate Pilot: Housing ancillary costs atlas 2025
- Strike Tracker: Strike ATLAS Germany
- Terranus: Germany MAP statutory minimum requirements in care
- WIdO: Health ATLAS
- WIdO: Quality ATLAS care
- WIP Scientific Institute of Private Health Insurance: Publications on health economics and health services research
- Wüest Partner: Care home ATLAS Germany 2025
PERSONNEL CHANGES
Real estate
- Appointments October '26 (Konii)
- Companies and people/management changes October '26 (Immobilienmanager)
Care
- Appointments October '26 (Contec)
- Management changes October '26 (Care market – industry update Q3/2026)
Book of the month November 2026
Architecture and Climate Change (Vol. 2)
20 interviews · Detail · EUR 29.90
WEBSITE of the month October 2026
Turn architectural renderings into unvarnished everyday views ( Antirender – free)
Ornament real architecture with classicist façades ( AntiAntirender – free)
Video of the month October 2026
COMPETITIONS + surveys
Care
- care:xpo congress (April 2027): Applications open now: Call for Speakers (Vincentz)
- FUCASE: Current Fraunhofer Institute survey on leadership practice in elderly care (Fraunhofer)
Real estate
- Submission deadline
- Stuttgart Lightweight Construction Prize 31 October 2026
- Detail Architecture Award 2027 31 October 2026
- Heinze Architektur AWARD 2026 Award ceremony: 18 November 2026
- SET Award 2027 30 November 2026
- Immobilienmanager Award 2027 13 December 2026
- Germany's ugliest garage door 2026 15 January 2027
- Velux architecture competition 2027 28 February 2027