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.

Christian Democrat Block Carried the Day: Tenants to Pay for Carbon Levy

The upward trend of rents proceeded at breakneck speed in recent years. In some of Germany’s metropolises, rent rates have more than doubled. 

Rental Growth Slowing a Bit

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...

Steady Decline in Flats in Detached and Semi-Detached Homes

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.

Germany’s Housing Supply Increases Despite Coronavirus Crisis

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. 

Residential Rent Growth Despite COVID-19

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.

German Real Estate Keeps Trending Internationally, too

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.

Residential Floor Space Consumption on the Rise

The German housing market has become Europe’s most coveted investment destination for residential real estate investors.

German Housing Market the Most Desirable Investment Target in Europe

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). 

Rapid Rise in Condo Prices Continued in 2019

Although Germany’s population is expected to decline by around one percent before 2040, the number of private households could keep going up until then. This is the outcome of a recent forecast compiled by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis).

Number of Private Households Likely to Keep Rising

The number of households in Germany is growing, which is explained, on the one hand, by demographic growth, but also by the continuous decline in the number of persons per household, on the other hand. 

Steady Increase in Single-Person Households and Micro-Apartments

Interest on mortgage loans has been at an all-time low for years, and yet Germany’s homeownership rate appears to be frozen in place at 45 percent.

Younger Households Go for Homeownership Less and Less Often

Housing Comparatively Affordable in GermanyThe affordability of housing is a topic that has dominated societal and political debates in Germany for a number of years now.

Housing Comparatively Affordable in Germany

Nearly a year and a half after it was formed, the incumbent German Government presented its first housing benefit and rent report – and thereby documented how ineffective the housing policy of recent years has been. 

No Relief for the Housing Market

In a recent survey, Commerzbank predicted the continuation of the real estate boom through the end of this year.

Affordability of Residential Real Estate Remains on High Level

In their coalition agreement, the Christian Democrat bloc and Social Democrats had agreed to evaluate the rent control measure commonly known as “rent freeze” in regard to its effectiveness—a promise the governing Grand Coalition just made good on.

Rent Freeze May be Extended

After years of brisk growth, both the number of condominiums sold in Germany’s major cities and the generated revenues suffered a modest decline in 2017.

Condominiums: Price Growth Continues but at Slower Pace

In 2016, nearly 600,000 households in Germany acquired residential property for the first time. This is the upshot of a recent survey published by the IW German Economy Institute in Cologne.

Declining Number of First-Time Buyers in Germany

Owning your home outright remains considerable more attractive than renting it, as a new survey just reaffirmed. For one thing, tenants bear a greater cost burden.

Living in a Condominium is Far more Affordable than Renting a Flat

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