Starting this year, landlords and tenants will share the CO2 price - which will increase also significantly from next year onwards...
Market & Figures / 23-06-2023
German Heating Act
After a long period of wrangling, the so-called heating law has been put to the vote in the Bundestag. What will property owners have to face now? An analysis....
The Ruhr region is proving surprisingly robust in the midst of structural change. The real estate market is very diverse and has a great deal of development ahead of it....
Market & Figures / 21-04-2023
EU Remediation Obligation
The EU Parliament has passed the EU-wide mandatory renovation: What's in store for owners of apartment buildings now?...
Market & Figures / 14-02-2023
Inheritance tax
Family allowances are quickly exhausted in German inheritance tax in the case of rental houses. What you now need to bear in mind when recalculating the tax. ...
The expenses add up: Increased energy prices, the CO2 tax and high construction interest rates make rental increasingly unattractive. ...
Market & Figures / 12-07-2022
Real estate tax reform 2022
A letter from the tax office is in your letterbox. And yet the 2021 tax return has not even been filed yet. Hopefully not a reminder or even worse! Luckily, nothing of the sort – except that another bit of red tape has to be dealt with: the real estate tax declaration....
Social conservation protection areas are intended to prevent low-income tenants from being displaced. But it is mainly urban elites who benefit. ...
Market & Figures / 15-11-2021
Significant restriction from Federal Court for pre-emptive right in Berlin
Tenant protection measures are an ongoing issue in Berlin. The latest twist: The Federal Administrative Court has put a damper on the districts' right of first refusal. The ruling is likely to have an impact throughout Germany. ...
Tougher regulations do not automatically mean more protection for tenants and they can actually have devastating consequences for rental markets. This can be seen from three international examples, which we in Germany should on no account use as role models. ...