Housing construction: "It's not the demand that's the problem, it's the implementation"
More than 760,000 apartments had been approved by the end of 2025 but had not yet been completed. How, from the perspective of the CEO of Schwäbisch Hall Building Society, Mike Kammann, new apartments can be built more quickly.
Mike Kammann, Chairman of Bausparkasse Schwäbisch Hall, identifies the largest untapped potential in the real estate industry as making more housing available faster through new construction and modernization of existing stock. Germany is currently short of 1.4 million apartments, while over 760,000 have been approved but not yet completed.
Kammann attributes the problem to implementation rather than demand. He advocates for simpler, more digital, and faster planning, approval, and construction processes, as well as economically viable and user-friendly funding programs for energy-efficient modernization.
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