Rents compared

Munich is twice as expensive as Berlin

Pedestrian zone in Munich: The South is the most expensive patch of Germany
Life in the south of Germany takes a lot - and it's getting more expensive. This is confirmed by a comparison of the rental prices index of 300 cities. Accordingly, in Munich on average € 10.12 per square meter due, in the old West Berlin is only 5,50 €.

Berlin / Hamburg - Munich is the most expensive city in the Republic: the rents, which form the main part of the expenditure of a private household, are there still by far the highest. And they rise significantly faster than in other cities, like Hamburg market research company, R & B has identified.



The analysis of the rent index but also promotes reassuring to light. Thus, the rent increased since last year in many parts of Germany, only moderate. The average rent increase for a 65-square-foot apartment standard level and location was in the past months, 0.6 percent. Especially in the areas above the Main Line and in eastern Germany, inflation lies at 0.2 to 0.4 percent significantly lower, the experts wrote in their report. In Baden-Wurttemberg and Bavaria, however, price increases averaging 1.8 percent were recorded.

For her comparative studies, the market researchers will have access to a library, where the collected Cape Town rentals index of over 500 German towns of 10,000 inhabitants in 1995 and continuously updated. However, not all cities and municipalities of such Rents.


Rents INDEX
Table 1: The most expensive cities in Germany -
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Table 2: The most expensive cities in Germany -
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Table 3: The most expensive cities in Germany -
Course 201-300
The rent index of cities and municipalities provide home seekers and investors important clues to which the local tariff structure must be adjusted. They should also contribute to a balance of interests especially in rent increases. However, new tenants on a regular basis to anticipate a price premium, because in the table of the flow with a Altmietverträge that are sometimes very low.

Cheap rent in Berlin


Munich display unit to pay the tenant 72 percent more for their homes than the national average (see table above). With about 20 percent to 30 percent premium over the average follow cities such as Stuttgart, Cologne and Wiesbaden, where there were rooms to let or lease.

In Hamburg, Frankfurt am Main and Mainz will cost the Living 15 to 17 percent more, however, it is quite cheap in Berlin. In the capital, the rental guides are located in the western suburbs and currently seven in the east even eleven percent below the German average.

For tenants in Munich, this means that they must spend on their monthly net rent of € 10.12 per square meter on average - nearly double that of West Berlin (5.50 € per square meter). In other West German cities, rents are higher than average, so you have to pay 7.46 € 7.66 € per square meter per square meter in Stuttgart and Cologne. In Hamburg, as well as in Frankfurt am Main, on average, about 6.80 euros per square meter.