What is the depreciation value of an 11-year-old built-in kitchen?

Hello Marvin, the condition of the kitchen can still be excellent, especially if mom took care of it carefully. Nonsense that it can't be worth anything anymore. Insurers calculate like this: depreciation in the first year 24%, then 2.5% each year after. At the end, you can add 50% on top of that, which is generally also accepted by courts if the buyer complains afterwards. Basically: bought as seen and no one has to buy if they don’t like it. So the kitchen can certainly still be worth 70% of its original value.

That’s absolute wishful thinking. A cheap kitchen is supposed to still be worth 70% of its new value after 11 years? But really only if it’s the last kitchen on earth. Kitchens are depreciated over 10 years, 10% per year. The kitchen has a book value of 0.

Wrong - kitchens and furniture are depreciated over 25 years. Legal basis for the redemption payment: § 4 a paragraph 2 sentence 2 [Wohnungsvermittlungsgesetz]. It is not just any opinion that counts but laws. And then you simply read specialist articles and judgments.

An 11-year-old kitchen is certainly not worth 70% of the new price - no way! Otherwise, someone has to explain to me why brand-new showroom kitchens usually fetch less than 50%.... In addition, the appliances are definitely written down to zero. Then only the "wood" remains. You can probably assign some value there. But don't forget: There is NO obligation to take anything over! So there is also NO "statutory price determination." In the end, you have to agree - or the kitchen has to go.

Not just any opinion counts, but laws.

Nonsense.

The market value of the kitchen is around a few hundred euros, maybe close to zero. It's that simple. It has nothing to do with what insurances do.

Only what someone is willing to pay counts. That's called the market. Since no one can be legally forced to make any payment for the takeover of used furniture, the kitchen is worth exactly what someone is willing to pay for it. And that is likely to be very little for an 11-year-old kitchen, which was already rather cheap when new.

Unless we're talking about fabricating an insurance claim to extract as much money as possible from it? No, we certainly are not talking about that...

Firstly, the WoVermittG is not applicable here at all; the landlord is supposed to pay, not a possible subsequent tenant. Secondly, the mentioned paragraph says nothing about your 2.5% annual depreciation. For tax purposes, kitchens are depreciated exactly as I said, namely over 10 years. There may be other approaches for calculating the residual value, for example, I have read about 20% immediate depreciation through installation and then 5-10% per year, which doesn’t seem unrealistic to me. What has fantasized about has nothing to do with reality, maybe he once bought a used kitchen too expensively and is now trying to make it look better.

We will see what the landlord is willing to pay. My mom has to be out in one month!