Germany Property News

The cost of renting accommodation in Germany continues to rise, but there are still several cities where reasonable rental prices can be found. According to data from the German Ministry of Housing Construction, around 54% of households in Germany prefer…

The German real estate sector will request billions of Euros as government support during the upcoming meeting with Chancellor Olaf Scholz, as reported by Reuters (citing sources familiar with the matter). A meeting with politicians, ministers and industry…

Rent levels have risen by more than 7 percent across Germany since the beginning of 2023. According to new data from the real estate platform Immosscout24, the rate of rent growth was breaking all records already in the first months of 2023. Between…

In the 4th quarter of 2022, prices in the Berlin real estate market were recorded to fall, caused by the decision of the European Central Bank to carry out a series of interest rate hikes. This caused mortgage rates to double or even triple, bringing…

Germany's decade-long boom in home prices, which ended last year after the European Central Bank decided to introduce a series of interest rate hikes, has sent mortgage rates doubling and sometimes even tripling. This event forced many players out of…

According to Gewos, The Institute for Urban, Regional and Housing Research, the growth phase of the German property market, which lasted more than 10 years in a row, may be coming to an end. The Institute predicts that sales of apartments, houses, commercial…

According to a recent study by real estate agency Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), there is currently a growing trend that has never happened in Germany in the past: rental prices are now rising faster than real estate prices. According to this study, there…

For more than a decade, the German real estate market was in a dramatic growth phase. However, as per the new report from the Gewos Institute for Urban, Regional and Housing Research, the sales boom may be coming to an end in the observable future. According…

Mortgage interest rates in Germany have reached their highest levels in the last eleven years. As a result, a significant drop in a number of requests for mortgage loans is currently taking place. According to the European Central Bank (ECB), the average…

As recent study of the German real estate market shows, almost all major cities recently began to experience property price decline after years of prices rising. The reason for this phenomenon lies in a number of factors, such as real estate revaluation,…

As of today, Germany has the lowest level of property ownership in the EU. According to the official government data, only 42.1% of families own housing units they live in directly, while the remaining 57.9% of families live in rented houses and apartments.…

Despite the economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the German real estate market continues to show steady growth - both the primary and secondary market. According to the latest data from the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), real estate…

The latest report published by the real estate agency Von Poll showed that housing prices in Germany on the islands in the North Sea are skyrocketing. According to the agency, prices for real estate in the North Frisian Islands (located in Schleswig-Holstein)…

The German Tenants' Association has proposed abolishing heating bills. The initiative has a simple rationale: the tenant pays the full heating bill without having any say over maintenance work that might reduce heat loss in the home. The project is currently…

The average home size in Germany has grown by 20% in the last 30 years, and this trend is gaining momentum. According to experts from Empirica Regio, Germans are increasingly opting for larger homes. The study included all German cities with a population…