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The majority of property buyers and prospective buyers describe the prices as off-putting (65%) and disconnected from the true value (44%). In addition, 51 percent of those surveyed consider buying a property in their region to be unaffordable or hardly affordable at all. This is the result of the Interhyp affordability study with 1,000 respondents. "Many of those surveyed have the feeling that the...

How can a sustainable turnaround in construction be achieved? This was recently investigated by the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO together with several associations and chambers of the real estate industry. They identified over 100 trends, which they summarized in three future scenarios. According to the IAO, the three scenarios are "#innovationiskey",...

A study by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) concludes that rent controls can only reduce economic inequality in the short term. This is based on the assumption that poorer households that pay high rents face richer households that have income from renting. If the legislator limits the growth of rents, according to...

According to the "savoo" portal, the most family-friendly city in Germany in 2022 is Berlin, followed by Nuremberg and Münster. For the survey, the portal analyzed factors such as the "number of doctors", the "crime rate" and the "number of parks" in 30 cities, but also, for example, the "number of daycare centers", the "average hourly wage for a babysitter" and the...

More and more Germans are thinking about moving to the countryside. This is the result of a recent online survey of 1,000 respondents conducted by Innofact AG on behalf of ImmoScout24. The online survey shows that two out of three respondents (63%) have already toyed with the idea of moving to the countryside. Men (66 percent) are more likely to be drawn to a rural region than women...

Students have to dig deeper and deeper into their pockets for their shared room. The average cost of living is currently 414 euros per month. Previously, the average room price was between 389 and 400 euros per month. Munich is at the top of the list when it comes to the price of a room in a shared flat: In the Bavarian capital, students currently pay 680 euros per month for a room in a shared flat.

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...

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...

62% of consumers fear that the rise in energy prices will place a heavy burden on them. This is the result of a survey conducted by Kantar on behalf of the Federation of German Consumer Organizations (vzbv). Furthermore, according to the survey, 71% of consumers do not want electricity or gas to be cut off to insolvent customers on low incomes by the end of April 2022. In the telephone survey...

Despite the sharp rise in real estate and land prices, Germans are still happy to invest in their own home and the number of loan agreements remains "at a consistently high level". This is the conclusion reached by ING Germany on the basis of the Baufi-Barometer. Based on the question "How does Germany finance", the construction financing data of ING customers was analyzed on an anonymous basis....