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In a study, the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) recommends creating a social package instead of the additional tax cut on gas. In this package, the one-off energy price lump sum of EUR 300 should be replaced by a regular "Energy Price Lump Sum Plus" of EUR 80 per month for taxpayers with a net salary of no more than EUR 3,000 and EUR 40 per month for...

If you want to buy a new-build apartment in Munich, you will have to dig deep into your pockets. According to the study "11th edition of the Property Index - Overview of European Residential Markets" by Deloitte GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft, Munich is the second most expensive city in Europe in this respect. While buyers in Munich have to pay 10,500 euros per square meter, the...

The 100 largest listed construction companies are building more and more despite the coronavirus pandemic. This is according to the "Global Powers of Construction" study published by Deloitte GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft. According to Deloitte, total turnover in construction activity amounted to USD 1.8 trillion in 2021, an increase of 14% compared to the previous year. Deloitte shows...

Apartments with 1.5 rooms for sale and rent are still in demand. This is according to the "IW-Cube Compact Living Report 2022". Purchase prices for these so-called "compact living properties" rose by 12.2% from 2020 to 2021, adjusted for quality. Rents rose by 2.5% in the same period, adjusted for quality. The purchase prices for 1.5-room apartments...

More and more teenagers and young adults are moving away from home more quickly. This is according to a statement from the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). In 2021, 2.6 out of 8.3 million 15 to 24-year-olds no longer lived at home. This corresponds to 31.2 percent. Ten years earlier, only 27.5 percent had moved out of the parental home at this age. According to the statistics, women are moving...

56% of German tenants consider their rent to be reasonable, 12% consider it to be low and 7% even consider it to be very low. These are the findings of the "Servicemonitor Wohnen" study conducted by the consultancy firm Analyse & Konzepte immo.consult. Only 18 percent of those surveyed felt their rent was too high and only 7 percent felt it was far too high. Depending on the target group...

Purchase prices for condominiums are no longer rising as strongly as they did recently. This is according to an analysis by Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL). Purchase prices in Germany's eight largest cities rose by only 7.5 percent compared to the same period last year, which is only half as much as in the previous year. However, there are differences between the cities: while buyers of condominiums...

The Deutsche Anlage-Immobilien Verbund (DAVE) is observing increasing pressure on the investment market. On the one hand, sellers are asking themselves whether they have missed the right time to sell. On the other hand, portfolio holders are unsure how the follow-up conditions will develop when extending an existing mortgage. According to DAVE, among other things, rising...

Empirica Regio has published the real estate price index 2/2022 under the title "The pig cycle is running out of food". This shows that rents for condominiums have increased by 2.0% compared to the last quarter. This is the first time in a long time that rents for condominiums have risen more sharply than purchase prices for them (1.1% compared to the last...

A team from the Chair of Technical Thermodynamics at the Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg and the company DBI Gas- und Umwelttechnik GmbH are currently researching how mine water from the former Lugau-Oelsnitz coalfield in north-western Saxony can be used to supply heat. The idea is to heat the mine water with heat pumps and use it for heat and power generation.