2022

Furnishings: ideas from the hotel room 

The Tagesanzeiger newspaper has summarized furnishing ideas under the heading "You can steal this in the hotel". It reveals how owners or tenants can imitate the furnishing trends of "artist flair", "chic", "lounge feeling", "practical wardrobe" and "mood" in their homes. Among other things, the artist flair in your own home is created by painted...

Evaluation: BBSR examines re-letting rents 

Re-letting rents for advertised apartments in existing properties rose by 3.5 percent in 2021 to an average of €9.29 per square meter. This is according to an analysis 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...

Light: save costs through good planning 

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

Energy: saving costs in the home office 

How can employees save energy when working from home? The Consumer Advice Center for Energy is looking into this question. It points out that, according to estimates, electricity consumption can increase by around five percent due to the regular use of laptops, desk lamps and electric stoves, among other things. The additional costs amount to around 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 coronavirus pandemic, the couple must still pay the room rental fee. This was recently decided by the Federal Court of Justice (BGH). In the case in question, a couple from North Rhine-Westphalia had married in a civil ceremony on December 11, 2018 and had planned a wedding celebration with 70 guests for May 1, 2020. The...

Home office: Study on greenhouse gas savings 

Increased working from home can save up to 3.7 million tons of climate-damaging greenhouse gases per year. This is the result of a study by the Öko-Institut, which examines the environmental and social impact of mobile working during the pandemic. The researchers also take into account the fact that sometimes people still have to travel to work. Independently...

Paper: Researchers investigate yield development 

Over the past 150 years, real estate in large cities has yielded lower returns than real estate in smaller cities. This is according to "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 not only examined...

Construction industry: Euroconstruct expects construction volume to rise 

According to calculations by the Euroconstruct research group, of which the ifo Institute is a member, the European construction industry has overcome the coronavirus slump. Euroconstruct assumes that the construction volume will grow by 3.6% this year. According to Euroconstruct, the construction volume had already grown by 5.6% in 2021, but fell by 4.7% in 2020. With an increase of 7.1 percent...

Model project: GDR prefabricated building undergoes energy-efficient refurbishment 

Together with the Thuringian Housing Association (VWT), planners have developed a concept for the energy-efficient refurbishment of mass-produced residential buildings from the 1980s. This is being tested in a prefabricated GDR building owned by 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 rescind a purchase contract 

A real estate purchase contract cannot be rescinded without further ado if a crime has been committed in the property and the buyer was unaware of this when signing the contract. This was recently decided by the Coburg Regional Court (Coburg Regional Court, judgment dated 06.10.2020, case reference: 11 O 92/20). In this case, a buyer had purchased a house in 2018. The seller had not told her about the...

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