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The re-enacted Real Estate Valuation Ordinance (ImmoWertVO) will enter into force in early 2022. The purpose of the legislative amendment is to establish uniform principles.

Property appraisals to become subject to standard rules across Germany in early 2022 

No one would deny that Germany suffers from pent-up demand for new-build housing construction, but at least as far as planning consents go, it is heading in the right direction, as the latest stats confirm...

Number of Planning Consents Hits Second-highest Level since Turn of the Millennium

It hardly qualifies as news anymore that Germany’s housing market has been unimpressed by the coronavirus crisis so far. Property prices have nowhere to go but up, and buying a condominium is a paying proposition.

New Initiative Wants to Increase Housing Construction and Homeownership Rate

Germany’s real estate market proved decidedly robust during the coronavirus crisis year of 2020. Selling prices for condominiums surged noticeably in 75 out of 81 major German cities last year...

Condominium Prices Set New Records Despite COVID-19

The contentious condominium conversion ban for rental flats which the Federal Minister of the Interior, Horst Seehofer, had proposed some time ago will apparently not be written into law after all.

Conversion of Rental Flats into Condominiums Remains an Option

For more than a decade after the end of the nationwide homeownership subsidy in 2006, no central public subsidies worthy of the name were available in Germany – until the child tax credit for first-time home buyers was introduced in September 2018.

Nearly a Quarter-Million Applications for Child Tax Credit

Immobilienkauf für Freiberufler - Bestimmt kein Ding der Unmöglichkeit

Buying a flat involves all sorts of decisions and duties. Sound and reliable information is of the essence, which is why our Real Estate Encyclopaedia brings you all sorts of details on homeownership, from A like “Acquisition” to Z like “Zoning.”

Real Estate Glossary

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Individual freehold ownership, condominium declaration, common ownership, maintenance reserve, HOA manager, individual freehold property manager, etc. – during a condominium acquisition you will sooner or later come across some or all of these terms.

Acquisition-process

Necessity is the mother of invention: These days, the corona pandemic and the associated lockdown restrictions have prompted the digitisation of many situations and interactions that used to be done in person, on site.

Digitisation Push in Condominium Sales?

The German Government set itself the goal to promote homeownership, a decision it had been urged to make for a long time, given the fact that Germany’s homeownership rate is a low 45 percent.

Child Tax Credit for Home Buyers, while Popular, Fizzles in the Big Cities

The child tax credit for first-time home buyers introduced in 2018 appears to have met with a lively response so far – a total of 171,510 applications for homeowner subsidies were submitted to the KfW development bank between early 2018 and November 2019.

Child Tax Credit for Home Buyers Barely Used in Major Cities

Since 2011, Germany’s homeownership rate has flatlined somewhere between 45 and 46 percent, which means that nowhere else in Europe, apart from Switzerland, do so many households rent their homes.

Reasons Why Germans Find it so Hard to Build Wealth

Between 2014 and 2018, the homeownership rate in Germany rose by one percentage point from 45.5 to 46.5 percent of the private households. 

German Homeownership Rate Perks up

Germany has traditionally been a country of tenants – the majority of households here rent their homes, whereas the homeownership rate has flatlined at 45 percent for many years. 

Majority of Tenants Desire Homeownership

When the Federal Government announced the child tax credit for first-time home buyers last years and eventually introduced it in September 2018...

Child Tax Credit for Home Buyers more Effective than Assumed

While the public debate revolves primarily around the blatant supply shortage in the rental housing sector, a recent survey found that the supply of condominiums and detached or semi-detached homes in Germany falls well short of demand as well. 

Germany Lacks 300,000 Family Homes

There is a real chance that the shortage in development land could stall the construction of new-build housing in Germany in the medium term.

Rising Land Prices Jeopardise Housing Development Targets

In September 2018, the housing summit organised by Germany’s Federal Government took place at the Chancellery.

Agenda-Setting for Accelerated Housing Construction now Initiated

Although the housing demand in Germany is enormous and although the Federal Government announced a “housing offensive,” new build construction is barely gaining momentum.

It Takes Longer and Longer to Build

With the new German government barely in office, it has already become quite obvious what one of the most pressing issues will be during the parliamentary term now under way.

Number of Planning Permissions in Decline

ACCENTRO: Ablauf eines Immobilienkaufs

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In our video we explain to you how we can help you when buying a condo - from purchase request to the keys.

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Marco Mendler (40) joins the senior management of Accentro GmbH as of 01 July 2013. Mendler will be responsible above all for the continued expansion of the housing privatisation business.

Marco Mendler New Managing Director of Accentro

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Property appraisals to become subject to standard rules across Germany in early 2022

Property appraisals to become subject to standard rules across Germany in early 2022