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Mietendeckel-Folgen
Berlin's rent cap left scars that won't heal.
Three years after the Constitutional Court killed the 2021 rent freeze, a new ifo study shows the policy's ghost still haunts the housing market [Quelle: ifo Institut]. Property prices lag 10–15 percent behind comparable big German cities, while advertised rents since 2023 have jumped 10–15 percent above expected levels—the worst of both worlds. Investors and housing corporations slashed new builds and renovations during the freeze, and the political uncertainty around the expropriation debate kept capital away even after the courts ruled.
The damage compounds as long as certainty stays out of reach.
Investor exodus
Private landlords seized the chance to catch up fast.
Once the rent cap fell, individual property owners raised rents sharply to recoup losses and hedge against future policy risk [Quelle: ifo Institut]. Corporate landlords, spooked by expropriation talk, have been selling portfolios to city-owned housing firms instead of expanding. The pattern reveals how political signal—or noise—shapes where money flows in a constrained market.
Watch September's election; what tenants hear matters as much as what builders do.
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