Rising Real Estate Returns in Austria

Professional ServicesReal Estate ♦ Published: April 15, 2011; 07:03 ♦ (Vindobona)

Institutional investors could achieve an average total return of 5.9% (before tax and finance) in Austria in 2010 with directly held real estate.

Rising Real Estate Returns in Austria / Picture: © Vindobona.org

This is what results clearly from the IPD Investment Property Databank Ltd. (IPD) annually collected Estate Index for Austria. Compared with the previous year marked by the financial crisis, the index grew by 1.7% points. Total returns are composed by net cash flow yields and value change yields, with 4.9% and 0.9% respectively for the period.

"Value adjustments were no longer an…