Many new regulations and developments will take effect next year in education and urban development. Here’s what Berliners ...

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 ...

The German capital's rental market is undergoing dramatic changes. The amount of affordable apartments to rent is has been going down, and a trend reversal is not really in sight, as DW's Janelle ...

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 ...

The leftist coalition running Berlin’s city government has agreed on the final version of a five-year rent freeze, and it will likely become the German capital’s law on Tuesday. While the resulting ...

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 ...

Berlin in June became the first German city to impose a cap on rents, limiting price increases on new leases to 10 percent above the local average in areas with housing shortages. Last month, rents ...

Berlin's government today moved to freeze rents in the booming German capital for five years from 2020 in their latest bid to halt runaway gentrification. Once described as 'poor, but sexy', Berlin ...

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 ...

Berlin is freezing the rents of 1.5 million apartments for the next five years starting this Sunday in a controversial move to control the exploding costs that have forced many to move outside Germany ...