An Examination of the Office Market in Budapest

Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject Economics - Case Scenarios, grade: 1,3, University of Applied Sciences Aschaffenburg, language: English, abstract: This assignment examines the office market in Budapest. It will mainly focus on the usage of a scoring model to view and evaluate the office market from many different perspectives. In the end, one final score will represent the whole office market in Budapest in terms of its attractiveness for investments into Real Estate.

In the period of low interest rates, the worldwide capital markets are flooded. To avoid that inflation lowers the value of capital, investors are forced to invest their money instead of putting it in savings books. The investment class ¿Real Estate¿ became a popular alternative to investing in bonds and stocks. Especially many institutional investors e.g. banks and pension funds have entered these Real Estate markets with large amounts of capital to invest.

However, the financial crisis in 2009 illustrated how risky investments in these markets can be. Therefore, investors are trying to spread their investments over different regions and markets to minimize the unsystematic risk of total loss of capital when investing in only one region or one market (e.g. currency decreases, natural catastrophes). By searching for new markets, the Eastern European countries attract many investors with promising yields. One of these markets is the office market in Budapest which is often waived but contains yields of more than 6%.