On April 15, Germany’s top court overturned Berlin’s Mietendeckel, or “rent cap” law, which had helped tenants throughout the city maintain their rent at a reasonable rate for the past year (despite ...

The Berlin rental cap has been overturned, making the lower rents of the last months invalid. Now many tenants are being asked to repay the difference. We spoke to experts to find out what renters can ...

Berlin's government today moved to freeze rents in the booming German capital for five years from 2020 in their latest bid to halt runaway gentrification. Once described as 'poor, but sexy', Berlin ...

There's a growing debate about a proposed increase to rent things in New Berlin; things like baseball diamonds and picnic areas. The proposal would boost rentals for baseball practices from free to ...

Last year, Berlin passed a law banning unregistered vacation rentals in the city because of a shortage of residential housing. A sharp increase in tourism and the popularity of renting private ...

Andreas Kluth is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering US diplomacy, national security and geopolitics. Previously, he was editor-in-chief of Handelsblatt Global and a writer for the Economist. As ...

BERLIN -- "[We] could never have believed that this place would ever be seen as inhabitable," growls a local bar owner in a broken-English video diatribe about the gentrification of Berlin's Neukölln ...

About a month after the introduction of new rent-control laws across Berlin last June, the cost of new contracts for rental apartments across the city started going down. But while many cheered the ...