Four-room-apartments with private garden, Single Apartments in a hip inner-city districts or age-appropriate apartments on the ground floor, each at prices below the local Rent index: housing cooperatives promise to their members, affordable housing and protection against luxury renovations.
“more and more younger people are in search of cooperative apartments,” says Matthias Zabel from the Federal Association of German housing and real estate companies (Gdw). The developments in the housing market also make them to create.
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Five million people live in Germany after the Gdw figures in the apartments of the 2000 housing cooperatives. Each year new cooperatives. More than 70 had occurred since 2010 in the regional associations of the Gdw, says Zabel. (Display)
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The Association of Bavarian housing companies in his state, even of a veritable “founding wave” is not only of cooperatives, but also of municipal, Church and public housing companies.
New co-operatives demand a five-digit sums
“Engaged citizens and municipalities want to take the rudder in Hand, and living space”, according to Association Director Hans Maier. Zabel from GdW but warns of a potential misunderstanding: “Only by start-UPS, we can’t solve the Problem in the housing market.”
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New cooperatives to build the rule yourself. Since you initially lack capital, you need to request, but, in General, higher Rents than stock cooperatives. For the shares in the cooperative five-digit sums are usually payable. In stock cooperatives, the shares are, according to Zabel in the rule for 500 to 3000 euros.
“Private land is currently clearly too expensive,”
For existing cooperatives, in turn, in cities such as Berlin have a different Problem: a lack of building land. “Private land are currently for cooperative housing construction in Berlin, with few exceptions, is expensive,” says Carsten-Michael Röding, Technical Director of the Charlottenburger Baugenossenschaft. Land prices from 1000 Euro and more per square meter were too high to cooperative Rent offer. Which is hardly a tenant knows… Our PDF guide to inform you about your rights and obligations as a tenant and explains to brake the Rental price.To the PDF guide
The Alternative is urban building land, but that will be awarded in Berlin only as a Erbbaupacht. In this model, the country remains the owner and leased the land for a period of usually 90 or 60 years against a ground Rent – and could rise after some time, the fear of many cooperatives.
Munich wants to give cooperatives the majority of land
at Least for existing co-operatives, these conditions are not attractive, says Download. He does not understand why there is no exceptions for cooperatives and looks jealous to Munich, where the conditions were better. There, according to the housing policy action programme of 2017 in the case of new construction projects, 20 percent to 40 percent of municipal land is to be awarded to cooperatives and building cooperatives. In addition, land tenders would be tailored to your “interests”, – stated in the paper.
the lack of a Berlin building land around the Charlotte builds Burger Baugenossenschaft currently only on private Land or expanding existing buildings. The views of go in addition to Brandenburg, says Download. Because new construction projects are not sufficient, however, to all interested parties a flat offer, take on the Charlotte Burger is currently only relatives of their members.
rent cover at risk renovations
the Berliner Baugenossenschaft (bbg) has, in part, a freeze imposed. You build according to your Commercial Chairman Jörg Wollenberg currently, only the top floors or compacted to their own land. In addition, the cooperative is investing continuously in your building. Since many of the owners lived long in their apartments, would have to be made to the statement about the electrics or the new bathroom. “The question is, whether or not such remediation is in the scope even after the rent cover is still possible.” So you Finance your home, Our PDF guide shows you how to find cheap loans, pitfalls to bypass and get money from the state.To the PDF guide
the Berlin-based does not accommodate all interested parties, according to Wollenberg not only to a lack of new construction projects. Due to the low interest rates, investors cooperative society would increasingly have to redeem all the shares which were looking for no flat. The bbg has paid in the past year, 4 per cent, dividend to their members. “We can currently accommodate only regional prospects, the specific apartment requests,” he says. 450 members are currently on the waiting list for an apartment.
families need to hang up to five years in housing
wait How long will it take until housing is allocated, from your your choice. In Berlin, for example, apartments with four or five rooms at the family-friendly districts are very much in demand. The fact the owners would have to wait up to five years. The faster it go to the part in “Kiezbezirken”, such as Neukölln and Wedding.
in Spite of all the problems: The demand remains large. Interested parties apply according to Wollenberg, therefore, to apartment blocks, which are necessary for instance because of a noisy road less: “the main thing is, you get a flat in the cooperative.”
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