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What tenants in Freising pay on average will in future be recorded in a rent index.
It also serves as a guide for landlords.
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Freising now has a qualified rent index.
From March 1st, it will be available online free of charge to anyone interested - technical extras included.
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– Freising’s city director Gerhard Koch described it as an “important story”: the first Freising rent index is here.
“We keep getting requests from citizens, the need is there,” said Koch.
Creating the rent index required a lot of effort: after the Finance Committee commissioned the EMA Institute for Empirical Market Analyzes to do this in March 2022, a working group was set up.
On board: the Freising tenants' association, the Freising house and landowners' association, Gerhard Koch, Mayor Tobias Eschenbacher, social officer Charlotte Reitsam and financial officer Monika Schwind.
Almost 1,000 responses from landlords and tenants were usable
At the meeting on Monday, Oliver Trinkaus from the EMA Institute praised the cooperation in this working group (AK) beyond measure: He already has around 100 rent indexes, “and such a nice collaboration like in Freising is not normal”.
Trinkaus explained the procedure: The questionnaire, which was initially approved by the AK members, was sent to a total of 3,000 tenants and 946 landlords.
1,196 tenants and 666 landlords filled out the questionnaire and sent it back; almost 1,000 answers were usable, which Trinkaus described as “very good”.
After evaluating all relevant data, the rent index for the city of Freising comes to an average net rent of 11.84 euros per square meter.
Since this is a qualified rent index, the data was collected according to recognized scientific principles and must be updated every two years.
From a purely legal point of view, the city of Freising is obliged to provide a qualified rent index with a population of 50,000 or more.
Statistically, the city hasn't quite broken the 50,000 mark yet, but that shouldn't take too long.
The city will also be offering a rent index calculator from March
From March 1st, both the rent index and the technical treat, the rent index calculator, can be downloaded from the city of Freising's homepage.
Tenants and landlords can use it to determine the rent for their apartment with just a few clicks.
The topic has a long history in Freising: factions in the city council have brought it to the table again and again.
And so, at the meeting, Nicolas-Pano Grassy (Left), Peter Warlimont (SPD), Susanne Günther (Greens) expressed relief that the time had finally come.
(By the way: Everything from the region is now also available in our regular Freising newsletter.)
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Ulrich Vogl (ÖDP), however, regretted that the rent index “only now exists”: “The first application was submitted by our colleagues in the city council twelve years ago, we could have helped many people who have been living there all these years "We paid a lot." Especially for small apartments that can't even be described as such, people pay completely overpriced rents, says Vogl.
The rent index was approved unanimously.
You can find even more current news from the Freising district at Merkur.de/Freising.