Property Investment Regions in Berlin

Treptow-Köpenick

Berlin's largest district by area... with the lowest population density

Treptow is connected superbly to the city-train net: the lines S3, S41/42 (ring train), S6, S8 and S9 open up the district, regional trains stop at train station Schöneweide. South of Treptow there is Schönefeld airport just outside the city's border. The narrow, longish district between Köpenick and Neukölln is one of Berlin's favourite jaunting target: the vast Treptower Volkspark and the Plänterwald forest permit a near-to-centre nature experience. The recovery area on the Spree river is to be reached by city-train as well as by steamer. Treptower Hafen, a marina, is one of the main landing stage for Berlin's sightseeing ships.

In the Treptower Volkspark the monumental, in Stalinistic architecture designed Soviet Memorial recalls a sunken era. The Bridge of Hearts guides you to the "Insel der Jugend" (Island of Youth). Persons and institutions who engage for the dreams and hopes of children are honoured here with blue hearts which are embedded in the bridge. The giant sculpture, 30 meters in height, of the "Molecule Man" in the Spree points to the newly raised office centre "Treptowers" facing Volkspark. In Archenhold observatory, whose 21 metre large lens telescope is the world's longest, Albert Einstein presented his relativity theory to the public. A visit in Adlershof, where writer Anna Seghers resided, can pay off: the modern research and science centre WISTA with its futuristic buildings as Photonic Centre and the former television centre of the GDR attract the science- and technique-devotee.

With an "Owner Occupancy" rate of nearly 20% it is one of a group of four boroughs (Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Reinickendorf, Treptow-Köpenick and Marzahn-Hellersdorf) which have noticeably higher owner occupancy rates than elsewhere in the city. The common geographic locations of these four boroughs, stretching out to the rural periphery of the city boundaries, is indicative of higher owner occupancy rates in more rural neighbourhoods which have higher levels of single family properties.

The high rate of owner occupancy in districts with more singly family homes is likely to maintain and possible increase the premium on property values that these higher rates generally bring to their neighbourhood.