"Can that be legal?": Astronomically expensive Berlin 42-square-meter apartment symbolic of the rent dilemma
Created: 12/19/2022 5:17 am
By: Kai Hartwig
Rental prices in Germany have been rising for years.
(Iconic image) © Armin Weigel/dpa
The rental prices in Munich are extremely high.
In Berlin, too, landlords are apparently asking for inconceivable sums.
An ad caused a stir.
Berlin - Those who are looking for an apartment these days can experience their blue miracle in the large German cities.
Whether in Hamburg, Cologne, Munich or Berlin - the range of free apartments is manageable, but the rental prices are often almost limitless.
Living in the big cities is getting more and more expensive.
Munich is currently the leader in Germany when it comes to rental prices.
However, an advertisement for a one-room rental apartment in Berlin now caused a shake of the head.
A screenshot of the advertisement, which was published on the
Immobilienscout24.de
homepage , was posted on the "Notes of Berlin" Instagram page.
Rent dilemma: Astronomically expensive Berlin apartment - "To what extent can that be legal?"
The person who created the ad is offering a 42-square-meter apartment – for a rent of 1,750 euros (including additional costs) including ancillary costs as much as 2,010 euros.
"Game over," writes the author of the Instagram post appropriately to his post.
And receives support from numerous users for his assessment of rent extortion in Berlin.
“To what extent can this be legal?” asked one user.
"If you provide furniture, this is furnished living and unfortunately allowed," commented an Instagram user.
"If the apartment is rented out furnished, almost everything is open at the top," added another.
Rental prices are skyrocketing across Germany to unimagined heights - calls for expropriations are becoming louder
"If it weren't so sad, you could laugh," escaped another in gallows humor.
"Where should we non-rich people go then?
In the tent?
Street?
Or are we not human?
Something like that should be punished really hard (!) "demanded an angry Instagram user.
Others saw expropriations as a possible way to solve the problem.
"Expropriation does not create a single new apartment," contradicted one user: "It would be better to build new apartments with the money that you have to spend on compensating the expropriated."
Apparently, there are still fair tenancies in Berlin with significantly more affordable prices.
"I'll pay 550 warm for 40 square meters in a good location," said one user.
And added, looking at the post: "I can NEVER move again in Berlin."
Meanwhile, a curious case recently occurred in the Bavarian state capital.
There, a landlord was punished by the city of Munich – for rents that were too cheap.
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