Dear readers, <\/strong><\/p>\n Now it\u2019s official. The number of new students will remain con-stantly high. The Standing Confe\u00adrence of the Minis\u00adters of Educa-tion and Cultural Affairs (KMK) has consider\u00adably raised its forecasts for the number of new students. It now assumes \u2013 as have many obser\u00advers for years \u2013 that by 2020 around half a mil-lion young people per year will begin univer\u00adsity. Fortu\u00adna\u00adtely, public student grants (Baf\u00f6G) will also be raised to contempo-rary levels. <\/p>\n The percep\u00adtion and accep\u00adtance of the asset class is growing around the world. The inter\u00adna\u00adtional consul\u00adtancy group Savills claimed recently: \u201cStudent accom\u00admo\u00adda\u00adtion became a successful and important asset class during the global finan\u00adcial crisis.\u201d Against the backdrop of ongoing low interest rates, invest\u00adment alter\u00adna\u00adtives which offer reasonable returns have become more popular than ever with insti\u00adtu\u00adtional inves\u00adtors. <\/p>\n The last few months have also been exciting for Inter\u00adna\u00adtional Campus. We have streng\u00adthened our team, moved to a new of-fice and ventured into the Dutch market, where there will be a shortage of some 28,000 student apart\u00adments by 2020. Together with DUWO, the Dutch market leader for student accom\u00admoda-tion, we will see more than 2,200 student apart\u00adments complet-ed in the next few years as investor and co-developer. In this IC newsletter, we will take a look at current trends and the residen-tial market in Berlin. We will also intro\u00adduce our newly estab-lished corpo\u00adrate consul\u00adtancy firm \u201cConsul\u00adting Cum Laude\u201d. <\/p>\n Horst Lieder <\/strong><\/p>\n CEO of Inter\u00adna\u00adtional Campus AG <\/p>\n \u200d<\/p>\n Forecasts adjusted <\/strong><\/p>\n At the begin\u00adning of July 2014, the Standing Confe\u00adrence of the Minis-ters of Educa\u00adtion and Cultural Af-fairs (KMK) consider\u00adably raised its forecast for the number of new students \u2013 a well-overdue correc-tion, accor\u00adding to many obser\u00advers. The KMK now assumes that some 500,000 young people will begin univer\u00adsity in the next few years. The number of students will even reach more 465,000 in 2025. So far several factors have been un-deresti\u00admated by officials. For one, the tempo\u00adrary double volume of A\u2011level students leaving school due to educa\u00adtional reforms will also have an impact in the medi-um term, plus there is also a greater influx from abroad. The number of foreign students at German univer\u00adsi\u00adties, high schools and technical colleges is expected to rise rapidly to 300,000 by 2020. While student fees in the UK, for example, can amount to up to EUR 18,000 per academic year, Ger-many has the advan\u00adtage of having no student fees. <\/p>\n Trend towards more educa\u00adtion <\/strong><\/p>\n In 2012 almost 54 per cent of school leavers had higher educa-tion entrance quali\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtions \u2013 in 2003 it was only 39 per cent. Dur-ing this period the percen\u00adtage of new students rose from almost 40 to more than 61 per cent. Ac-cording to surveys, 77 per cent of A\u2011level students plan to go to uni-versity after finis\u00adhing school. Since 2011 the percen\u00adtage of new stu-dents has constantly been above 50 per cent. But while the number of students has increased by 25 per cent in the last 12 years, the number of rooms in residenc-es has hardly grown by more than 4 per cent. <\/p>\n \u200d<\/p>\n residen\u00adtial cosns\u00adtruc\u00adtion <\/strong><\/p>\n Whether it is a shared apart\u00adment, a place in student accom\u00admo\u00adda\u00adtion or a single apart\u00adment, small-scale residen\u00adtial accom\u00admo\u00adda\u00adtion is rare, and demand is subse\u00adquently high. There conti\u00adnues to be an acute shortage of housing in many me-tropo\u00adlises and univer\u00adsity towns. Accor\u00adding to the recent fifth re-port by Allens\u00adbach Research Insti-tute and Reemtsma Founda\u00adtion entitled \u201cStudy condi\u00adtions 2014\u201d, 72 per cent of all new students in Germany experi\u00adenced \u201cdiffi\u00adculty\u201d or \u201cgreat diffi\u00adculty\u201d in finding ap-propriate accom\u00admo\u00adda\u00adtion. While construc\u00adtion is once again increas-ing in Germany, only very few stu-dents are actually benefiting from this. <\/p>\n Mounting compe\u00adti\u00adtion <\/strong><\/p>\n As part of the stronger migra\u00adtion to cities and metro\u00adpo\u00adlitan areas, the rising share of people living alone and incre\u00adasing mobility, mi-cro apart\u00adments are becoming a hugely sought-after commo\u00addity. Post-graduates, commuters, sin-gles and students are all looking for the same type of small-scale residen\u00adtial accom\u00admo\u00adda\u00adtion. Ac-cording to the fifth Allens\u00adbach re-port, appro\u00adpriate accom\u00admo\u00adda\u00adtion is \u201cextre\u00admely important\u201d to 27 per cent of students. For 30 per cent of all univer\u00adsity students, accom-modation was a factor in deciding where to study. A recent report by the inter\u00adna\u00adtional consul\u00adtancy company Roland Berger confirmed the trend: by 2025 \u2013 over the next eleven years \u2013 the number of house\u00adholds in Germany will in-crease by around 2 percent. With some 41 million house\u00adholds, this corre\u00adsponds to an increase of more than 800,000 house\u00adholds. This is a clear indica\u00adtion that one- and two-room apart\u00adments will be parti\u00adcu\u00adlarly sought after in Ger-many.<\/p>\n \u200d<\/p>\n Student accom\u00admo\u00adda\u00adtion <\/strong><\/p>\n Market in the capital <\/strong><\/p>\n Berlin is very popular among students. A total of 164,728 young people are en-rolled at the city\u2019s four universi-ties, three art schools, seven technical colleges and several dozen private univer\u00adsi\u00adties. Three of the four univer\u00adsi\u00adties are elite univer\u00adsi\u00adties. Around 16 per cent of students are from abroad. Of the students in Berlin who took part in the fifth Allens\u00adbach re-port \u201cStudy condi\u00adtions 2014\u201d, 82 per cent experi\u00adenced \u201cdiffi-culties\u201d or \u201cgreat diffi\u00adcul\u00adties\u201d in finding accom\u00admo\u00adda\u00adtion. There are a total of 9,411 places in student accom\u00admo\u00adda\u00adtion, which corre\u00adsponds to an accom\u00admoda-tion ratio of 6 per cent. The res-idential vacancy rate in Berlin stands at just around 2 per cent. Rents have accor\u00addingly risen: by 36.5 per cent on average from 2008 to 2013. Demand for ac-commo\u00adda\u00adtion in the city centre within the S\u2011Bahn ring is particu-larly high. Of all Berlin house-holds, 54 per cent are single-person house\u00adholds. <\/p>\n \u201cThe metro\u00adpolis is awake\u00adning\u201c <\/strong><\/p>\n The economic forecasts for Ber-lin are also positive. A recent study by PWC ranks Berlin at number 11 of the world\u2019s 30 most important metro\u00adpo\u00adlitan areas. More than 200,000 peo-ple work in research, and more than 200,000 work in the arts and creative industry. Growing economic and purcha\u00adsing pow-er, a high quality of life and ex-cellent infra\u00adstruc\u00adture attract around 50,000 people \u2013 most of them young \u2013 each year. Around 30 million overnight stays by tourists are expected in 2014.<\/p>\n \u200d<\/p>\n Why did Inter\u00adna\u00adtional Campus estab\u00adlish \u201cConsul\u00adting Cum Laude\u201d (CCL)? <\/strong><\/p>\n Based on its close proxi\u00admity to the student target group, Inter-national Campus will verti\u00adcally diver\u00adsify its business model with the corpo\u00adrate consul\u00adting firm \u201cConsul\u00adting Cum Laude\u201d: from student accom\u00admo\u00adda\u00adtion to con-sulting and market research. It is becoming incre\u00adasingly evident that students and graduates are a valuable resource for the whole economy, both as cus-tomers and employees. We want to exploit this. <\/p>\n For whom is this consul\u00adting platform attrac\u00adtive? <\/strong><\/p>\n Consul\u00adting Cum Laude is not on-ly attrac\u00adtive for the real estate industry. We there\u00adfore offer our services to compa\u00adnies of all sec-tors and sizes that want to make themselves ready for the \u201cbattle for talent\u201d and seek direct ac-cess to the 17-to-32-year-old custo\u00admers of today. <\/p>\n What is special about CCL and when does it start? <\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cGenera\u00adtion Y\u201d thinks diffe\u00adrent-ly than previous genera\u00adtions, which is obvious conside\u00adring the digita\u00adli\u00adsa\u00adtion of (social) life. We have there\u00adfore opted for an in-novative consul\u00adting approach: based on an exten\u00adsive knowledge database, experi-enced manage\u00adment consul\u00adtants work closely with creative stu-dents to develop effec\u00adtive solu-tions, for example in \u201cemployer branding\u201d. CCL starts in mid-August. Demand from compa-nies is huge! <\/p>\n \u200d<\/p>\n European mobility programmes <\/strong>to become \u201cErasmus+\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n The European Union is combin-ing its mobility programmes for students and appren\u00adtices for all 28 member states under one roof and is incre\u00adasing the budget consider\u00adably. By 2020 the EU expects the exchange pro-gramme to cost EUR 14.8 billion. The programmes Erasmus, Co-menius, Leonardo da Vinci and Jugend in Aktion will become \u201cErasmus+\u201d. <\/p>\n Record number of German <\/strong>pupils want to take A\u2011levels <\/strong><\/p>\n Accor\u00adding to the report \u201cJugend Leben\u201d by the Univer\u00adsity of Gies-sen, 77 per cent of the 6,000 pu-pils surveyed between the ages of 10 and 18 want to take A\u2011levels. <\/p>\n Bachelor insuf\u00adfi\u00adcient <\/strong><\/p>\n Accor\u00adding to the fifth Allens\u00adbach report, 61 per cent of students want to earn a Master\u2019s degree after their Bachelor\u2019s degree. Only 27 per cent say a Bachelor\u2019s degree suffi\u00adci\u00adently prepares them for working life. The lim-ited accep\u00adtance of the Bache-lor\u2019s degree and better earnings and career options are the main reasons cited.<\/p>\n \u200d<\/p>\n Influx to univer\u00adsi\u00adties remains high <\/strong><\/p>\n The number of new students will remain high in the coming years, accor\u00adding to new estimates by the Standing Confe\u00adrence of the Minis\u00adters of Educa\u00adtion and Cul-tural Affairs (KMK). By 2019 it is expected that around 500,000 young people will enrol at uni-versity each year. Accor\u00adding to KMK, the number of new stu-dents in 2013 amounted to around 507,000. <\/p>\n Bavaria to increase funding for student apart\u00adments <\/strong><\/p>\n Federal State Bavaria plans to increase funding for the con-struc\u00adtion of student residences. In order to create 1,000 new places in student accom\u00admoda-tion, funding has been increased to EUR 27.5 million for 2014 \u2013 which corre\u00adsponds to EUR 27,500 per one apart\u00adment. <\/p>\n Stable percen\u00adtage of new stu-dents <\/strong><\/p>\n Since 2011 the percen\u00adtage of new students in Germany has been constantly above 50 per cent. Expen\u00additure on educa\u00adtion, research and science now ac-counts for more that EUR 247 billion, or 9.3 per cent, of GDP. <\/p>\n \u200d<\/p>\n Student housing an inter\u00adna\u00adtion-ally important asset class <\/strong><\/p>\n In a recent analysis, global real estate service provider Savills concluded that student accom-modation has become a major asset class at an inter\u00adna\u00adtional level. Global invest\u00adments in-creased from EUR 2.5 billion in 2007 to around EUR 5.3 billion in 2013. Student accom\u00admo\u00adda\u00adtion generates reliable rental returns thanks to high and stable de-mand. <\/p>\n EUR 2.7 billion required <\/strong><\/p>\n Accor\u00adding to estimates by the German student services organi-sation (DSW), invest\u00adment of EUR 2.7 billion is required to create 45,000 additional places in stu-dent accom\u00admo\u00adda\u00adtion in Germany \u2013 just for low-income students. <\/p>\n 1\u2011person house\u00adholds in majority <\/strong><\/p>\n Accor\u00adding the Federal Statis\u00adtical Office (Destatis), the most com-mon house\u00adhold is the single-person house\u00adhold (2011). A total of 37.2 per cent of all house\u00adholds are occupied by only one person, and this figure climbs to as high as 42 per cent in large cities. Of those living alone, 17.6 per cent are younger than 30 \u2013 34.1 per cent are over 64. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Now it\u2019s official. The number of new students will remain con-stantly high. The Standing Confe\u00adrence of the Minis\u00adters of Educa-tion and Cultural Affairs (KMK) has consider\u00adably raised its forecasts for the number of new students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-munich","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ic-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ic-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ic-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ic-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ic-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ic-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ic-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ic-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ic-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ic-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Student living: current trends <\/h3>\n
Demand exceeds small-scale <\/h3>\n
In focus: Berlin <\/h3>\n
Three questions for Roman Diehl about Consulting Cum Laude: <\/h3>\n
News <\/h3>\n