The Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning

Type: News Date 23 June 2022 Small-scale trends in urban rental housing markets

Many urban areas in Germany have experienced tight rental housing and real estate markets in recent years due to high internal and external migration gains. The expansion of housing construction in these markets has so far only partially affected the supply. New construction and a more efficient use of the available stock have to go hand in hand in order to relieve the markets in a space-saving and sustainable way and meet the existing demand for affordable housing. Yet bottlenecks in building land and building materials, capacity utilisation in the construction industry, long approval procedures and inner-city conflicts of space and interests are causing a variety of obstacles to the expansion of supply. The foreseeable quantitative and qualitative demand for flats must also be kept in mind in order to avoid future vacancies. Particularly high increases in asking rents can be seen in new construction and small flats. Many lower and medium ranked residental areas have also become noticeably more expensive, starting from low average rents. In contrast, other cities show relaxed market situations with low price levels and stable population development. This current analysis of small-scale data on the rental housing markets in the IRB cities shows how diverse urban rental housing markets in Germany are.

Fact sheet
Title:Kleinräumige Trends auf städtischen Mietwohnungsmärkten
Authors:Jürgen Göddecke-Stellmann ( juergen.goeddecke@bbr.bund.de ),
Alexander Schürt ( alexander.schuert@bbr.bund.de )
Editor:BBSR
Series:BBSR-Analysen KOMPAKT
Issue:09/2022
Published:June 2022
ISBN:978-3-98655-063-9
ISSN:2193-5017
Language:German

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