According to a survey by the Bauherren-Schutzbund, more and more modernizations are being postponed or abandoned altogether. In August 2022, only 34.3% of homeowners surveyed with a 15-year-old or older property said they wanted to have modernization measures carried out. Around half a year earlier, the figure was 50.2 percent. In addition, more than half of...

Owners of buildings with a central gas heating system and six or more residential units must have a hydronic balancing of the heating system carried out in the coming years. Owners of ten residential units and more have until September 30, 2023 to do this, while owners of six to nine residential units have until September 15, 2024.

When tenants move into a new apartment, they automatically receive electricity from a basic supplier - unless they opt for an optional supplier. But what happens if a tenant has opted for an optional supplier, but the meter numbers of two neighboring apartments are mixed up? The Frankfurt am Main district court has now ruled on this. In the case in question, the...

He himself admits that this is an experiment, but schoener-wohnen.de author Jan Kahl dared to try it anyway. In a series of pictures, he shows what alternatives there are to the Christmas tree. For example, a wooden ladder can be decorated with Christmas decorations, fairy lights and fir greenery to create a Christmassy flair. Arrangements in shades of green and berry can also be...

In North Rhine-Westphalia, private property buyers who have purchased a house, a condominium or a plot of land this year or would like to do so can benefit from a reduction of up to 10,000 euros in real estate transfer tax. However, the prerequisites for this are that they use the property themselves, that it has not cost more than 500,000 euros and that it is registered with NRW.Bank...

Interested parties can apply for the German Timber Construction Award, which is endowed with a total of 20,000 euros, until Sunday, January 15, 2023 at deutscher-holzbaupreis.de/online_einreichung/. The prize is awarded to buildings and building components that are predominantly made of wood, wood-based materials and other renewable raw materials. Architects, builders, among others, can take part...

Architects and employees from planning offices and building developers can attend a seminar on the topic of "Recording and visualizing existing buildings" on Wednesday, 30 November from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Fraunhofer Institute Center Stuttgart at Nobelstraße 12. At the seminar, Building Information Modeling experts Günter Wenzel, Frank Sulzmann and Jörg...

Even if an owner is not responsible for pests on her property, she must combat them and bear the costs. At least that is what the Berlin Administrative Court has now ruled (VG 14 L 1235/22). In this case, an unknown person had provided rats with food and drink on a property in Berlin-Reinickendorf. The rat infestation had been reported to the public health department and...

The Association of the German Furniture Industry (VDM) sees growth potential for its activities on the North American market. "The market offers interesting growth opportunities for our manufacturers not only in stationary sales, but also in the online channel," says Jan Kurth, Managing Director of the German Furniture Industry Association (VDM/VHK). The reason for these assumptions is...

Buying a property is becoming increasingly difficult for many potential buyers. At least that is what the Immowelt Group assumes due to the key interest rate hike by the European Central Bank (ECB) and the associated expected increase in building interest rates. For example, if a family wanted to buy a house in Stuttgart, they would only be able to take out a loan of 322,000 euros in the third quarter of 2022 in order to...