Rent out or sell a condominium? Decision in times of crisis?

Right. But that doesn't bother certain politicians, because capped rents are immediately noticeable. Lack of new construction and insufficient supply can be blamed on greedy housing corporations ;)

That's how it is everywhere right now. The electricity and gas price brakes are also just tinkering with the symptoms because they are trying to "obscure" the direct effects of politics on prices. Regardless of the "correctness" of the entire measures, I always find it problematic when the state fiddles with prices. Basically, high prices initially indicate a shortage. This automatically leads to a decrease in demand (if that is possible). I also don't believe that last year was that bad for consumers in terms of energy. After all, there were still price guarantees. At the moment, you can sign a contract again for gas at under 14 cents/kWh for two years. That is a lot, yes. But it is no longer over 20 or almost 30 cents.

Alright. For those who want to see unrestrained capitalism, "Silicon Valley" is highly recommended. Even with an annual salary of $100,000, often the only "home" left is the car. That's why it caused such a big stir when the large tech companies there loudly considered whether to require their employees to return to the office or to cut the housing allowance from the salary. Living in a caravan is not unusual in the USA either. I don't know if we want that in Germany. If yes... then please vote FDP. PS: And it's always to be taken with caution when the top 15% income earners explain to the remaining 85% that it's better to leave everything to the market because it will sort itself out. Sure, the lower class has to make sacrifices, but "that's just how it is"... blah blah

In Silicon, earning 100 TUSD is rather below average. 120 TUSD was the median in 2021.

But yes, nobody wants such conditions here.

In Silicon Valley, earning 100 TUSD is actually rather below average. 120 TUSD was the median in 2021. But yes, no one here wants such conditions.

If 100 tUSD is only enough for a car, you will hardly get a good apartment with 120 tUSD and hardly support a family with 200 tUSD...

I just wanted to illustrate the principle behind it. The gap in Germany is still relatively small in an international comparison. We are miles away from the USA in every respect, where capitalism already starts in school. If you don't have a sports career or rich parents, you have to go to college, which offers no prospects for good jobs and good salaries... but can still drive middle-class parents into ruin. It is no coincidence that many parents in the USA start saving as soon as their children are born to at least send them to college...

The story "secondary school student becomes professor through hard work" may already seem like a fairy tale here... in the USA, despite all legends, it is virtually impossible...

There are simply no political majorities for that and therefore such things will not happen. Not only from an economic market perspective but also from a party-political point of view, as long as the FDP holds the government.

I consider that short-sighted. With red and green, the issue is very popular, and with dark red even more so. Who knows how long the traffic light coalition will last and what will come afterward. The FDP has been kicked out of parliaments several times in the last 20 years, and then there is no more governing. The fact is that a lot of money is supposed to be invested in the renovation of properties in the coming years, and politics does not want to impose that on the tenant.

If 100 tUSD is only enough for the car, you will hardly get a good apartment with 120 tUSD and barely feed a family with 200 tUSD...

depending on the area ... in the Valley probably unfortunately true.

I just wanted to illustrate the principle behind it. The gap in Germany is still relatively small in an international comparison. We are, in every respect, miles away from the USA, where capitalism already starts in school.

What exists in the USA is called predatory capitalism here, but soon we will probably be there too. And I believe it already starts in kindergarten in the USA :-( , not only in school. And, if you look closely, the gap is already huge in Germany too, but not displayed as obviously (in the USA success doesn’t automatically lead to envy as it does here).

If you don’t have an athletic career or rich parents, you have to go to college, which offers no prospects for good jobs and good salaries... but can still drive middle-class parents to ruin. It’s no coincidence that many parents in the USA start saving as soon as the children are born, at least to send them to college...

The USA is big, so there are also big differences depending on the state and region... but unfortunately you’re right and we are heading for that?

I may seem like a fairy tale to us, the story of a "secondary modern school student” becoming a professor through a lot of diligence... in the USA it is, despite all legends, virtually impossible...

Rarely certainly, but my brother managed it from secondary modern school student to professor, it’s not a fairy tale ;-)
And secondary modern school hardly exists anymore (almost not at all?).