Despite the coronavirus pandemic, there are no signs of an abrupt correction in house prices in Germany, according to the Bundesbank’s assessment. However, this is contingent on the economic recovery not being “seriously” disrupted. According to the latest issue of the Bundesbank’s Monthly Report, the pandemic has so far left little mark on the housing market.

Die Banken verschärften Richtlinien für die Vergabe von Krediten an Unternehmen und private Haushalte. Eine schwächere Kreditnachfrage der Unternehmen spiegelt einen geringeren Bedarf an Notfall-Liquidität wider. Die Maßnahmen der EZB stützten die Bankkreditvergabe erheblich.

German banks have seen their interest margin narrow during the negative interest rate period that began in 2014. Yet their profits remained stable up until the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. And there has been no evidence so far to suggest that German banks have been any less willing to grant loans, the Bundesbank writes in its latest Monthly Report. 

Die Jahreswachstumsrate der weit gefassten Geldmenge M3 stieg im September 2020 auf 10,4 % nach 9,5 % im August. Die Jahreswachstumsrate des enger gefassten Geldmengenaggregats M1, das den Bargeld-umlauf und die täglich fälligen Einlagen umfasst, erhöhte sich von 13,2 % im August auf 13,8% im September.

“Economic output in Germany is likely to have risen sharply in the third quarter of 2020,” the Bundesbank writes in its latest Monthly Report. As measured by quarterly gross domestic product, the German economy may have already recouped slightly more than half of the dramatic losses sustained in the first half of the year. According to the experts, there will probably be only a relatively small rise in economic output in the current quarter.