Living: Foreigners pay larger rents – as much as 9.5 % extra per sq. meter | EUROtoday

On the German housing market, foreigners pay a median of upper rents than folks with a German passport. In 2022, they needed to pay 9.5 % extra per sq. meter of seven.75 euros per sq. meter than Germans, because the Federal Statistical Office stories.

Part of the distinction may be defined from the truth that the German tenants reside in common bigger residences which can be rented extra cheaply on the sq. meter.

According to the outcomes of the microcensus survey from 2022, to which the Federal Office refers, foreigners reside extra typically than the German inhabitants, however can profit much less from the worth benefit of very previous rental contracts.

Differences even with lengthy -term contracts

But there are nonetheless variations with the identical rental interval. Even if foreigners reside of their condo for greater than 20 years, they nonetheless need to pay 9.1 % extra lease than Germans. With a period of between 10 and 15 years, the distinction remains to be 7.0 % and drops to three.5 % within the occasion of tenancy, which solely exist lower than a yr.

The statisticians additionally acknowledge a connection between the rental distinction and the scale of the place of residence. In medium -sized cities with 50,000 to 100,000 inhabitants, the distinction was the bottom of 6.6 %, whereas foreigners in small communities below 10,000 inhabitants needed to pay 10.6 % larger rents.

The majority of individuals with out German citizenship reside for lease

The common web lease for households in residences below 60 sq. meters was 8.01 euros in 2022, thus 15.6 % larger than for households in residences with 60 or extra sq. meters (6.93 euros).

On common, foreigners lived on a dwelling house of 85.7 sq. meters, however Germans on 109.6 sq. meters. The majority of individuals with out German citizenship lived to lease: While 54 % of Germans lived within the possession of house in 2022, this solely affected a fifth (22 %) of foreigners.

“The place of residence also does not complete the difference in rents,” emphasised the statisticians. Foreigners paid larger sq. meter rents each on the tense housing market in giant cities and in smaller communities.

While the distinction in main cities of 100,000 inhabitants was 7.3 %, it was 6.6 % in medium -sized cities (50,000 to lower than 100,000 inhabitants), in smaller cities (10,000 to lower than 50,000 inhabitants) in 9.3 % and in municipalities with lower than 10,000 inhabitants at 10.6 %.