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   @GT-zm8ex

   March 5, 2024 at 12:26 am

   Because you’ll own nothing and be happy.

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   @WalczySzczur

   March 5, 2024 at 12:26 am

   house prices stagnated? are you sure about that? They grow, ALWAYS.

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   @theodorgrigoras6001

   March 5, 2024 at 12:26 am

   ''the pandemic encouraged landlords to retire'':)) retire from what?

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   @Shini1984

   March 5, 2024 at 12:26 am

   Its funny how people jump to conclusions and show them as "the truth, the end". In reality, things are MUCH more complicated.

   In reality, expensive money (high interest rates) often leads to CHEAPER rents because real estate is much cheaper because investors don't buy up ALL of the real estate and thus there is no price bubble.

   But most economists cannot look further than 1 second ahead – high interest rates = expensive rents. Funny.

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   @Shini1984

   March 5, 2024 at 12:26 am

   Haha 10% rent increase in poland, how about FIFTY?!

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   @SK-yb7bx

   March 5, 2024 at 12:26 am

   Rent controls were applied in Ireland and they if anything made things worse.

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   @oklahoma1232

   March 5, 2024 at 12:26 am

   USA biden destroyed the German economy !

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   @amac2612

   March 5, 2024 at 12:26 am

   when you exclude immigrants who can claim all their housing and social benefits from their chosen country and have as many kids as possible.

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   @jimmydickson8854

   March 5, 2024 at 12:26 am

   Greed greed tents on the streets coming

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    @shotokhan4078

    March 5, 2024 at 12:26 am

    So it's not just an italian problem, I specifically searched because I was finding odd that there could be an housing crisis in EU like that currently happening in USA and China (too many real estates losing value, too many empty new houses built and nobody buys anymore). In Italy it seems taht everyone is going crazy to move to cities and the rents are over the roof!

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    @themarcel508

    March 5, 2024 at 12:26 am

    I really don’t understand why europeans government thought that prices control will assure the rental will not goes up. Really? In any part of world this not worked

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    @agenteg

    March 5, 2024 at 12:26 am

    Each city has its own reasons. I live in Berlin for 6 years as an immigrant to Germany. It is nearly impossible to get financing for your own apartment here as interest has spiked in the last years, but since 2017 is already difficult to find an apartment to rent. Nearly impossible actually. There’s a big gap between offer and demand, which caused prices actually to double on that time. If you are looking for an apartment here, be prepared to have 60-100 people visiting it at the time.
    The entire building where I live (around 200 apartments) was fully rented in 2 weeks, including visiting, papers check and signing contract, because of the lack of apartments here.
    Berlin suffers a lack of residencies. It is the basic offer and demand thing that the government don’t see
    And of course then, prices increase

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    @seagrey75

    March 5, 2024 at 12:26 am

    Because of unregulated mass influx?

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    @xlukas93

    March 5, 2024 at 12:26 am

    What a nonsense. Government should introduce increasingly higher taxation for companies and people who own multiple properties and these money being allocated for building public housing for rent.

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    @bronxnowak

    March 5, 2024 at 12:26 am

    thanks to Merkel and German politics in general EU has imported millins of illigal migrants recent decades, who would have thought it negatively affects natives? they do it on purpose

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    @RAHellemans

    March 5, 2024 at 12:26 am

    I am late finding this but you totally missed the career movers from mortgaged properties a significant part of the market. Their predicament is once I sell do I put my capital residue into a slowing market or protect my assets by putting it into a banque. No brainer I rent and wait until my next career move when the market is growing.

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    @TheSandkastenverbot

    March 5, 2024 at 12:26 am

    How would not renting your apartment work in the long run? Selling the apartment doesn't take it from the market – it either stays available or it decreases demand by the family that buys it. Waiting is not a long term strategy and going airbnb isn't a viable option for most home-owners.
    The only possible detrimental effect rent controls could have long term is when they affect the amount of new houses being built because only that could reduce supply for more than a year or two.

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    @nemaminika

    March 5, 2024 at 12:26 am

    I am honestly quite surprised Portugal wasn't mentioned. Drawing from my own experience, the rent for the last apartment I lived in shot up by 23% in just a year (650€ → 800€ for an unfurnished 40 m² studio in the heart of the capital, Lisbon). Still, many people who came to view the apartment told me it's nearly impossible to find something 'livable' at this price level these days, not only in the center but pretty much anywhere in the city. This is all happening in a country where the national net average monthly salary is 1,162€ and people are expected to make do with pay raises of 3-5%, which is, to me, an utter lack of respect from companies, as they don't even keep up with the current inflation rate (8.1% in 2022). I believe the situation isn't markedly different in most European countries nowadays.

    Something needs to be done.

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19. 

    @Rilerisl

    March 5, 2024 at 12:26 am

    Dont forgget to tip youre landlord😘

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20. 

    @pozytywniezakrecony151

    March 5, 2024 at 12:26 am

    In Poland in a big part to Russia war in Ukraine.

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    @tassosk966

    March 5, 2024 at 12:26 am

    Proprties also need maintenance. Which is neither trivial or cheap. Many houses get out of the market every year because of that.

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    @concretely

    March 5, 2024 at 12:26 am

    Garbage reporting. The “crisis”is being caused by greedy landlords that overbought when interest rates were low.

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    @prashant9108

    March 5, 2024 at 12:26 am

    Hello from Singapore, where rents have gone up by 100%. 😢

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