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Noise Nuisance – How to Deal with Noisy Neighbours
Continue readingNoise Nuisance – How to Deal with Noisy Neighbours
Pets, loud music or vacuum-cleaning – there is a long list of household sounds that can create a noise disturbance and cause disputes among neighbours.
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Does it Make Sense to Take out a Small Loan for Refurbishment Work?
Regardless of whether it is a tenant-occupied apartment or your own home: Every residence needs to be fixed up from time to time so as to make sure it retains its quality of living and its property value.
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Christian Democrat Block Carried the Day: Tenants to Pay for Carbon Levy
In early May, the parliamentary groups of the German Bundestag were in agreement: Tenants and landlord should evenly split the costs of the carbon levy in houses heated with fuel oil or natural gas. That consensus is ancient history now.
Continue readingGermany’s Housing Supply Increases Despite Coronavirus Crisis
New-build housing construction stands a good chance to top the mark of 300,000 newly-built flats this year despite the coronavirus crisis – if it did, it would be the first time in more than twenty years.
Continue readingResidential Floor Space Consumption on the Rise
The average dwelling floor area available to every German in 2019 was 47 square metres. The per-capita floor space consumption has been going up steadily over the past years.
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Modern, Shabby, Hygge? Make way for Lagom. But what is it all about?
Modern, stark, discreet and casually minimalist. This, in a nutshell, give you a general idea of the latest Nordic living style.
Continue readingRental Growth Slowing a Bit
The upward trend of rents proceeded at breakneck speed in recent years. In some of Germany’s metropolises, rent rates have more than doubled.
Continue readingResidential Rent Growth Despite COVID-19
German housing rents continued to increase unchecked even during the coronavirus crisis. The latest survey by the Immowelt real estate portal shows that new-tenancy rents kept climbing in most major German cities in 2020.
Continue readingGerman Housing Market the Most Desirable Investment Target in Europe
The German housing market has become Europe’s most coveted investment destination for residential real estate investors.
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Insulating attic or roof? – Check out our tips right here!
Whether as storage area, play room or extra bedroom – depending on how you intend to use your attic, insulating the roof or the top floor ceiling is not only rewarded by cost and time savings, but is also good for the environment.
Continue readingSteady Decline in Flats in Detached and Semi-Detached Homes
Germany’s residential property market is booming, despite the coronavirus crisis, and this hardly qualifies as news anymore. Yet the building activity keeps trailing demand...
Continue readingGerman Real Estate Keeps Trending Internationally, too
Investors face difficult decisions at the moment. COVID-19 has caused economic cutbacks in a number of sectors around the world, forcing investors to adjust their strategies. Even the real estate market has not been spared these jitters.
Continue readingRapid Rise in Condo Prices Continued in 2019
As in prior years, the selling prices for condominiums in Germany continued to soar in 2019, growing at an average rate of 9.3 percent (inflation-adjusted).
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