Status: 06.01.2024, 15:50 PM
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The increased cost of building land is having an impact on the housing market. (Symbolic image) © perspektive/R.xRebmann/Imago
Starnberg - The prices for building land have risen considerably in the district of Starnberg in recent years. The DGB district association warns against rents that are too expensive.
This is the result of an evaluation by the German Trade Union Confederation according to figures from the Federal Statistical Office. In 2022, the square meter in the district cost an average of 1,510 euros. This represents a price increase of 160 percent over the past ten years. Compared to 2019 alone, i.e. before the Corona pandemic, building land has increased by almost 20 percent. In comparison, in 2022, one square meter of building land in Bavaria cost an average of 429 euros. And when it comes to the absolute level of building land prices, Starnberg ranks third in Bavaria.
Demand for publicly subsidized housing
Simone Burger, chairwoman of the DGB district association of Munich, Dachau, Fürstenfeldbruck and Starnberg, explains: "Affordable housing is already a major problem in our region. The ever-increasing prices for building land are therefore alarming and lead to even more expensive rents. We urgently need more publicly subsidized housing."
Skimming off speculative profits
Land speculation is one of the main cost drivers: "Privatised land that is ready for construction is often not built on because it is more profitable to speculate on it and later resell it profitably. Here, too, the legislator has to get involved. We are committed to ensuring that profits that come from mere speculation are skimmed off," explains Burger.
Far from the construction goal
And last but not least, the Free State of Bavaria is also contributing to the fact that housing is becoming more and more expensive. "In 2018, our own housing association BayernHeim was founded with great fanfare. But five years later, the results are sobering: the Bavarian state government is further away than ever from the announced 70,000 new apartments, 20,000 of which would have to be built annually, which would have to be built annually. Instead, about 3,000 social housing units are falling out of the bond every year," Burger concluded. (kb)