Housing shortage and rising real estate prices in Germany

Housing shortages, rising rents and rising land prices have long been a political issue at the federal and state levels. Although the necessary measures to create affordable housing have been debated repeatedly in recent years, there have been no substantial successes in this area so far.

As the federal government recently stated in its fifth report on the housing and real estate industry, Germany's prosperous cities and regions have been experiencing rapidly growing demand for living space for years, with associated increases in real estate and rental prices.