Investor's Guide

So what’s the profit yield for the apartment in Berlin? What’s the final price of the apartment? What is the yield, and how is it calculated? How do you read the data in a sales chart? To analyze the performance of an apartment, you should come equipped with a pen, a calculator, common sense and some basic insight. Sometimes the data missing from the chart are no less important than the data presented. A thorough understanding of the parameters according to which the data is calculated – such as the yield calculations – are crucial for reaching the right decisions. The first part of this article will analyze the various components of the price chart and will teach you how to thoroughly understand the information presented, including the yield calculation. The second part of the article, which will be published later, will review the process of taking out a loan

So you’re thinking of investing in an apartment in Berlin and you want to do a market survey to compare the prices. You could, of course, come to our real estate investment seminar or you could simply surf one of the German second-hand sales websites. Here we will teach you how to use Immobilien Scout 24—the leading real-estate website in Germany. If you do not speak German, we suggest you use Google Chrome internet browser, which will automatically translate the text of the website from German to English. Usually, the browser provides a relatively effective translation, though there may be small “bugs” in the translations of certain pages. OK, let’s go. In the Google Chrome address bar, type the website address www.immobilienscout24.de. Once on the homepage, enter the address of the building where the property-of-interest is located (circled in red). Let’s enter the information for apartment No. 4 of Weserstrasse