On April 15, Germany’s top court overturned Berlin’s Mietendeckel, or “rent cap” law, which had helped tenants throughout the city maintain their rent at a reasonable rate for the past year (despite ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Berlin lawmakers on Thursday passed a law that will permit short-term apartment rentals on home-sharing platforms such as Airbnb, relaxing severe restrictions in the German ...

About a month after the introduction of new rent-control laws across Berlin last June, the cost of new contracts for rental apartments across the city started going down. But while many cheered the ...

Implementation of the rent cap could have a significant negative impact on returns for investors in Berlin residential investments—will it be challenged? Over the past decade, Berlin has experienced a ...

Berlin - Beate Schlüter - that's not her real name - from Kreuzberg is pleased. "I pay €434 less rent per month thanks to the rent cap," says the 35-year-old. She's profited from Berlin's Mietendeckel ...

Rents in Berlin have increased in the last two years by an average of 7.9 percent. This was revealed in a report on the city’s rent index (Mietspiegel) presented by Ingeborg Junge-Reyer (Social ...

Last year, Berlin passed a law banning unregistered vacation rentals in the city because of a shortage of residential housing. A sharp increase in tourism and the popularity of renting private ...

The Berlin rental cap has been overturned, making the lower rents of the last months invalid. Now many tenants are being asked to repay the difference. We spoke to experts to find out what renters can ...

Simply sign up to the German economy myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Jörg Jahnke Dachbau, a Berlin roofing company, is facing a new year’s slump with few parallels in its history. “It ...