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Low interest rates continue to drive the real estate market

According to industry experts, the upward trend on the German real estate market, which has been in place for ten years, is still intact. “Real estate prices and rents have reached their highest levels in almost all types of use,” says a study by the KPMG auditors and the real estate academy IREBS at the University of Regensburg.

The foreseeable continued low interest rates in the eurozone and the US support the real estate sector. Therefore, money will still flow into real estate: “Due to a lack of alternatives for fixed-interest investments, it will thus remain with the considerable liquidity overhang in the real estate investment market,” said KPMG real estate chief Hans Volckens.

However, the risks for investors would be greater. Thus, the authors of the study expect that the legislature in Germany will dampen rents with further regulation. The immigration from abroad and the number of younger people as new tenants will be weaker in the next few years. Rising house prices could then be justified “less and less by potential Mietsteigerungen”, conclude the experts.

Source: wiwo.de

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That’s what Berliners think about the expropriation of the housing companies

According to a representative Forsa survey for the newspaper, 35 percent consider expropriations to be “fundamentally sensible”. In January, the proponents were in the majority. A Berlin initiative is currently collecting signatures to apply for a referendum. It requires companies with more than 3000 apartments to be “socialized” against compensation.

Source: bz-berlin.de

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Big plans for Halles Marketplace

Greening of the market place

According to initial plans, the area around the Handel statue could be planted. In the past, turf was repeatedly laid around the statue. The administration could imagine trees in the area of ​​the Commerzbank and in front of the townhouse as well as in front of the Handel statue. Since the plants can not be planted directly in the soil due to the soil conditions, they would then have to stand in certain plant trays.

Fixed stalls for the market

During the „Workshop for the future“ also fixed market stalls were a big topic. Following the example of the Munich Viktualienmarkt. In a rough idea, the fixed market stalls are in front of the town hall on the east side of the market place. Lord Mayor Bernd Wiegand announced an interest-sharing process to find out the interests of the companies.

Family friendly market

The market should also be more attractive to families. That’s how the idea of ​​a small playground came into being, which should reflect Halle as the city of the towers on the river Saale. In addition, the marketplace should be used as a venue, especially in summer, such as be used for “open-air cinema”. In addition, the city government is planning by popular demand public toilets in the marketplace.

Source: MZ

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These are the 10 most expensive cities in Germany

1st place goes unchallenged to Munich. The price per m² in the first quarter of 2018 was an average of € 17.57. Rents in Frankfurt am Main are considerably more moderate than in Munich. The average here was € 13.90 per m². This is followed closely by Stuttgart, which at 13.48 € per m² is still expensive, but much cheaper than Munich. With place 4 we are approaching a clearly more acceptable price. In Freiburg the average price is 11.94 €. Just behind it is Mainz. There, the square meter costs on average 11.93 €. In the following places you can find Ingolstadt (11.90 €), Hamburg (11.83 €), Berlin (11.80 €), Heidelberg (11.79 €) and Wiesbaden (11.72 €) relatively close to each other.

Significantly less money must be spent on the cheaper university locations such in Erfurt and Magdeburg. There, the monthly warm rent for a student room is less than 300 euros.

Source: Finanzen.net, Immobilienmarkt.net

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