September 2021

The cost of housing is rising. This is the result of the "Postbank Housing Atlas", in which the housing markets of the 401 German districts and independent cities are examined by experts from the Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI). One of the benchmarks used by the experts is disposable household income. According to a common rule of thumb, no more than 30...

Without an inheritance, a gift or a personal loan, many owners would not have been able to afford their property. This is the conclusion of a survey conducted by Statista on behalf of Interhyp Group in Germany and Austria with 3,353 property owners. Young owners are particularly affected by this problem. In the survey, one third of...