{"id":273100,"date":"2025-07-18T21:57:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T21:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/273100\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T21:57:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T21:57:22","slug":"german-home-building-permits-decline-in-may-as-sector-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/273100\/","title":{"rendered":"German home building permits decline in May as sector struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Building permits for apartments in Germany fell 5.3% in May from a year earlier, statistics office data showed on Friday, as the nation&#8217;s troubled property industry continues to struggle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The drop is a setback after some improvements earlier this year. The nation&#8217;s property sector has been in a funk since 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">&#8220;The hope was recovery, but the reality is unchanged: no momentum,&#8221; said Aygul Ozkan, CEO of the property industry association ZIA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The drop in May weighed on an overall 1.9% gain in permits during the first five months of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reporting by Tom Sims, editing by Rachel More and Miranda Murray)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Building permits for apartments in Germany fell 5.3% in May from a year earlier, statistics office&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[103427,2000,299,1824,103429,103428],"class_list":{"0":"post-273100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-building-permits","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-germany","12":"tag-property-industry","13":"tag-property-sector"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114876478067627096","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}