As Munich continues to grow in popularity and property investor eyes are on Germany, there is an increasing shortage of modern affordable housing in Munich city.

It is no wonder therefore that the German’s are busy developing a solution. Enter the m-ch or micro compact home, the conclusion of a research project at Technical University Munich to design a 2.6m cube dwelling. Prof. Richard Horden initiated the project with his team of students and assistants in 2001 in response to another housing shortage: the university has about 90,000 students and just 10,000 ...

I decided to do my first review on eco friendly properties. In a world dominated with developers who have to squeeze margins and therefore use low grade quality materials, I thought why not look at other alternatives.

I read a post on worldchanging which discussed a new home featured in Sunset. A section taken from this article states “Clarum Homes, our builder, constructs zero-energy homes, which incorporate roof-mounted photovoltaic panels designed to produce enough electricity to meet the needs of each home. The homes will also be able to feed excess electricity back to the utility power grid.”

I think that although these concepts are still ...