2022

Furnishings: ideas from the hotel room

Under the headline "You're allowed to steal this in the hotel", the Tagesanzeiger has summarized furnishing ideas. It thus reveals how owners or tenants can imitate the furnishing trends "artist flair", "chic", "lounge feeling", "practical wardrobe" and "mood" in their homes, among others. The artist flair in one's own home is provided, among other things, by painted...

Evaluation: BBSR examines reletting rents

The re-letting rents of advertised apartments in existing properties rose by 3.5 percent in 2021 to an average of 9.29 euros per square meter. This is the result of an evaluation by the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR). However, the BBSR found considerable differences between the cities. The highest re-letting rents are in the cities of...

Lighting: Saving costs through good planning

The portal "bauen.de" advises builders to think about lighting before building a house. In doing so, they should find answers to various questions. According to bauen.de, these include the following: "What rooms are there and what light is needed there at what time of day?", "What intensity and temperature should the light have?" and "How should the light...

Energy: Saving costs in the home office

How can employees save energy in their home office? This is the question addressed by the consumer advice center "Verbraucherzentrale Energieberatung". It points out that, according to estimates, electricity consumption can increase by around five percent due to regular use of the laptop, desk lamp and electric stove, among other things. The additional costs thus amount to about 30 cents to 1 euro per day. In addition...

Ruling: Room rent must be paid despite corona-related cancellation

If a wedding celebration for which a location has already been rented has to be canceled due to the Corona pandemic, the couple still has to pay the room rent. This was recently decided by the Federal Court of Justice (BGH). In the case at hand, a couple from North Rhine-Westphalia had married in a civil ceremony on December 11, 2018, and planned a wedding celebration with 70 guests for May 1, 2020. The...

Home office: study on greenhouse gas savings

Increased home office working can save up to 3.7 million tons of climate-damaging greenhouse gases per year. That's according to a study by the Öko-Institut, which looks at the ecological and social impact of mobile working in the pandemic. The researchers also take into account the fact that commutes still have to be made at times. Independently...

Paper: Researchers examine yield development

Real estate in large cities has yielded lower returns than real estate in smaller cities over the past 150 years. This is the finding of "ECONtribute Discussion Paper No. 31," published by a team led by economist Prof. Dr. Moritz Schularick, member of the Cluster of Excellence "ECONtribute: Markets & Public Policy" at the University of Bonn. The team examined not only...

Construction industry: Euroconstruct expects construction volume to rise

According to calculations by the Euroconstruct research group, to which the ifo Institute also belongs, the European construction industry has overcome the Corona slump. Euroconstruct thus expects construction volume to grow by 3.6 percent this year. According to Euroconstruct, construction volume had already grown by 5.6 percent in 2021, but fell by 4.7 percent in 2020. With a plus of 7.1 percent...

Model project: GDR panel building is renovated for energy efficiency

Together with the Association of the Thuringian Housing Industry (VWT), planners have developed a concept for the energy refurbishment of mass-produced residential buildings from the 1980s. This is being tested in a GDR panel building belonging to the Stadtroda housing association in Stadtroda, a small town in Thuringia. Among other things, the GDR panel building is to receive a new type of heat exchanger by 2023....

Law: Murder not a reason to reverse a sales contract

A real estate purchase contract cannot be rescinded without further ado if a crime has occurred in the property and the buyer did not know about it at the time of signing. This was recently decided by the Regional Court of Coburg (LG Coburg, judgment of 06.10.2020, file number: 11 O 92/20). In the case at hand, a buyer had purchased a house in 2018. The seller had not informed her of the...

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