Berlin is in danger of losing the battle against the housing shortage. According to a report by the country’s own funding Bank IBB, the “dynamics of the cost of housing is nowhere in Germany” is higher than in Berlin. The rental price brake, rear purchase of apartments and other market regulations of the red-red-green coalition did not change in the housing stock can prevent the dramatic increase in Rents: they rush the slow growth in disposable income with “maximum speed”.
The Rents in Berlin have now reached the level of Hamburg, and Cologne. The cost of living in Berlin level with his “reference cities”, the authors of the study, Arnt von Bodelschwingh – only that Berlin’s cost to ride the high standard of living with much lower income: Hamburg’s households, a quarter have more money available and the Cologne ten percent.
unabated rise
“The times are not over, as the growth was aching so,” said the researchers. “Unchecked,” the course currently, the rise in apartment rents and purchase prices in the capital. Anyone who wanted to rent an apartment in the past year, paid an average of 10,32 euros per square meter, 5.4 percent more than a year earlier. In many Parts of the city centre, twelve Euro were, on average, due. With the accelerated rise in the price now areas of the city beyond the S-Bahn ring have detected. Who wants to buy a newly built apartment, you must pay, on average, more than 5600 euros per square meter – with a powerful leap had been broken “for the first time 5000 Euro”. In the medium cost apartments in Berlin 4200 euros per square meter, twelve percent more than a year earlier.
Alarming, the development is not, therefore, because the number of resulting additional dwellings is sufficient, statistically, still, the population intercept growth of Berlin by the coming to people. As a result, the shortage of housing continues to increase – “more than 100,000” were missing already, it said on Friday.
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to order the “Berlin has started late with the new housing construction,” said Berlin’s Senator for urban development, Katrin Lompscher (Left). And that it was not possible “to order houses from the bread factory”. The weakening of the new building, Lompscher said with a lack of “construction capacities” and that there was hardly easy to be developed for building areas. A “laziness” commit, who wants to build on Tempelhof field to combat the housing shortage. It’s possible 5000 dwellings would not help “much”. The “political strategy” of the “rent-damping measures” against attack. The Rents in the portfolio rose at a slower pace than in the case of free apartments.
the number of approved dwellings on the decline
The number of Berlin Offices of newly approved housing is even on the decline. According to the report, there were almost 25,000 in the last recorded year 2017, one per cent less than in the previous year. To the approved houses are, more time passes: two years and five months, longer than usual. The time that elapsed between granting of permission and start of construction: up to three years. to alleviate
the housing shortage, and called for investment Bank chief Jürgen Allerkamp on Friday: “Build, build, build”. The Banker, “it would take over eight years to the housing shortage, to compensate for”, when each year approximately 16000 flats re-emerged. Not the growth of population in Berlin, which exacerbated the housing shortage, in addition, is attributed to however.
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Since counted for the first time, more than two million households in Berlin. The statistics show that the 1.8 people per household on average in the city. Due to the increase in population of just under 40,000 people per year, it would take more than 20,000 apartments.
