December 2021

Living trends: "Home Report 2022" published

In the new "Home Report 2022" from the Zukunftsinstitut, housing expert and futurologist Oona Horx-Strathern looks at the impact of the Corona pandemic on housing. She has identified and summarized three different trends. She calls these "Conscious Kitchen," "FurNEARtur" and "modular furniture." By the "Conscious Kitchen" trend, she means that the...

Study: Real estate prices rise by more than 7 percent

In Germany, prospective buyers have to pay an average price per square meter of €3,299.70 for an apartment. For single-family homes, the average price is as high as €3,990.96. This means that prices for apartments and houses rose by 6.93 and 7.09 percent respectively from May to October 2021 compared with the period from November 2020 to April 2021. This is according to a...

Urban planning: New guide

The German Institute of Urban Affairs (difu) has developed a new guide as part of the "Controllable Urban Material Flows" project funded by the German Federal Environment Agency. This is entitled "Urban planning and urban development as levers for resource and climate protection: municipal instruments, case studies and potentials for reducing resource use". The guide...

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