kaho674
2019-06-19 08:26:55
- #1
The Berlin tenants celebrate the decision that rents are to be capped for 5 years. The landlords are already preparing the first lawsuits. Is this now an emergency brake and does it help tenants keep their apartments, or does it rather scare off potential housing developers so that no more investments are made and the housing shortage worsens?
On the radio, you mostly hear only the accusing tenants who disparage and insult their landlords as sharks. Nobody says that construction costs and necessary investments have multiplied in recent years. If these tenants had to build, renovate, and pay for the apartments from their own money, where would the rent be then?
In the rent index, I test an example for Berlin and end up at 7 to 8.50€. In Leipzig, we are already higher than that. In Dresden, we once considered building apartments. But rents of around 8 euros would not even cover the costs in 20 years.
Just a few years ago, we demolished gigantic new blocks because of vacancy. Now the cheap apartments are missing. Is this all just an unfortunate coincidence of population growth and interest rate policy? Do you consider the Berlin decision to be right?
On the radio, you mostly hear only the accusing tenants who disparage and insult their landlords as sharks. Nobody says that construction costs and necessary investments have multiplied in recent years. If these tenants had to build, renovate, and pay for the apartments from their own money, where would the rent be then?
In the rent index, I test an example for Berlin and end up at 7 to 8.50€. In Leipzig, we are already higher than that. In Dresden, we once considered building apartments. But rents of around 8 euros would not even cover the costs in 20 years.
Just a few years ago, we demolished gigantic new blocks because of vacancy. Now the cheap apartments are missing. Is this all just an unfortunate coincidence of population growth and interest rate policy? Do you consider the Berlin decision to be right?