Weekly report : Covid-19

French residential: from haven to safe haven?

Week 13th to 17th april 2020

A consensus is emerging that the lockdown exit strategy (France plans to lift its lockdown on 11th May) will involve reinforced social distancing (e.g. face masks, a ban on gatherings of people, cafés/restaurants remaining shut), systematic testing and continued quarantine for certain groups of people (senior citizens), not forgetting the continued closure of borders. It is difficult to set a time limit for these measures, especially as a hypothetical vaccine is not expected until 2021. Such
an outlook means less visibility for market operators and thus dampens the expectations of consumers and businesses alike, which will have a crucial role to play as the strength of the recovery depends on them.

The residential real estate segment’s indicators were extremely sound before the Covid-19 crisis: transactions in the existing housing market had reached a record high (>1million in 2019) for the second year running; prices were rising substantially but under control (+3.9% in the Paris region and +3.6% in the provinces in the 4th quarter of 2019 year-on-year); and mortgage rates were falling (-32
basis points between December 2018 and December 2019). Above all, institutional investors were still keen on block residential assets in France (€3.5bn invested in 2019) and especially across Europe (€62.7bn, of which €18.3bn in Germany despite the rent cap in Berlin). New property sales and construction starts, on the other hand, had begun to dip somewhat as they often do in the run-up to local elections.

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Daniel While
Henry-Aurélien Natter Head of Research

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