Berlin’s environs score points with its residents for their high quality of life. This is the result of a survey conducted by the Berlin-Brandenburg Association of Housing Companies (BBU) among their tenants. Those surveyed rated the social infrastructure particularly positively. 87 percent said they were satisfied or very satisfied with…

The Federal Government has set itself ambitious goals for housing construction. However, it is still far from reaching its target of 1.5 million new flats in the current legislative period. Especially in many large and university cities, the housing markets remain tight. The special depreciation for rental housing has been…

The construction industry has been booming for years. This trend continued last year. The reasons for this are low interest rates and favourable mortgages. According to experts, however, growth is nearing its end — and that is not due to lack of demand. Mini interest rates are driving up demand…

In Germany’s cities, building land is becoming scarce despite the availability of free land. Experts and the housing industry therefore recommend converting more agricultural land and other areas into building land. “In principle, there is enough land,” said Michael Voigtländer, real estate expert at the Cologne Institute of the German…

Builders of houses have to plan for rising land prices this year as well. The main problem is the stagnating allocation of land. An “unpleasant side effect” further exacerbates the situation. In southeastern Thuringia, according to a real estate report, the sum could even make you a landowner — one…

All good things come in threes: For the third time in a row, the Berlin office market reports a record result. According to figures from Angermann Real Estate, the agents achieved a letting performance of 928,000 sqm — after 871,000 sqm in 2016 and 832,00 sqm in 2015. The other…

From the countryside to the surrounding area, this is how migration movements within Germany over the past 20 years can be summarised. “After almost all major German cities have recorded a clearly positive migration balance and thus a noticeable increase in population since 2010, this movement is currently leveling off…