In future, apartments in Berlin should be allowed to cost a maximum of € 9.80 cold per square meter when re-leased. This emerges from a now become known table of ceilings for the proposed law on rental cover. According to Portal Immowelt, the average asking rents currently stands at € 11.60 per square meter.
The upper limits are differentiated depending on the year of construction and equipment of the apartment. For example, central heating and bathroom cost an apartment of the year of construction 1919 and 1949 an example of an additional charge of 1.68 euros. The basis for this is the rent index for 2013 plus 13.5 percent, which is intended to reflect the general price trend since then. The location of the apartment does not matter.
For new rentals, the upper limits must not be exceeded. Existing rents must not exceed 20 percent - otherwise the renter should be able to demand a reduction to this threshold in the foreseeable future.
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The future upper limits are, according to the list, between 3.92 euros cold per square meter for a built before 1918 apartment without heaters and without bathroom and 9.80 euros for apartments that were built from 2002 to 2013. In modernization for climate protection or accessibility landlords should be able to beat a maximum of one euro. First, the "Tagesspiegel" had reported on the list.
This Tuesday, the Red-Red-Green Senate wants to finalize the rental cover for 1.5 million homes built before 2014. The core is to freeze rents for five years. In addition, there are flanking provisions such as upper limits for new rentals. The law will be finally adopted by the House of Representatives until the beginning of 2020 and will apply retroactively from 18 June 2019. The rent reduction rule is expected to come nine months later, so by the end of 2020.
Two dozen signers fight back with an open letter
In an open letter to the Senate, associations, organizations and companies from the Berlin construction and real estate industry have sharply criticized the planned Mietendeckel Act. The two dozen signatories, from the Architects 'and Engineers' Association to the Glaser-Guild to the Berliner Volksbank, warn that the rental cover that the Senate wants to pass on Tuesday has far-reaching negative effects on the economy.
