‘English people like to have a second home here, because it’s just a 1½-hour flight’ IT’S best to compare Berlin, says Sven Henkes, managing director of Knight Frank’s associate office, Ziegart, to an elevator on the rise. ‘Some people joined years ago, on the minus levels, and now we’ve reached the ground floor. Now is the best time to jump into the elevator, while it’s going up.’ Oliver Blum, managing director of luxury estate agency John Taylor, agrees: ‘Berlin is booming!’
Like any capital city, Berlin has its good and bad neighbourhoods. The best include Charlottenburg, Berlin’s Mayfair, which contains the Kurfürstendamm, the German equivalent of the Champs-Élysées, lined with boutiques and five-star hotels. The architecture is also varied, with a mixture of old and new, says Mr Henkes, but…