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Category: Politics

March 17, 2023 General / Politics

Continuation: Reduced Lending Values ​​by EU Directive?

The remaining useful life of a property is of crucial importance for its mortgage lending value. A reduced remaining service life specified by the EU directive

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March 14, 2023 General / Politics

Hard to believe: the end of the new building activity immediately?

Today it is in the press that the European Parliament will more or less immediately stop all building activity in Europe

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March 8, 2023 General / Politics

What do US government bonds have to do with the German real estate market?

What different markets are there? Everywhere the press writes that the real estate boom of the last few years is over and single-family houses or

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31 October 2022 Notary office / Politics / Taxes

Annual Tax Act 2022 – increasing gift tax for transfers from January 01.01.2023st, XNUMX

Focus, Wirtschaftswoche, Finanzen100, Börse Online, but also savings banks and associations such as Haus & Grund did that a few days ago

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10 May 2022 General / Politics

Piston seizure

Rental excluded! According to the Guthmann market report, the median asking price for Berlin properties for sale as of May 02.05.2022nd, 5.370 is around 0,8 euros/sqm. At XNUMX% interest

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5 May 2022 Politics

Protection against rent explosion and termination for personal use

Problem Again and again, politicians and tenants' associations call for better protection against rent increases and terminations for personal use. Exemplary likes

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21 April 2022 General / Politics

20 years tenancy

I was admitted to the bar in the summer of 2002, which means it will be 20 years this year. During that time there was

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16 April 2021 General / Justice / office management / Politics / Taxes

Clubhouse 9:XNUMX - the relaxed real estate talk

From April to June, I always met Christopher Brée in the clubhouse on Mondays at 20.30 p.m. to relax about

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15 February 2021 Politics

1 year rental cover

A few days ago I talked to Achim Amann from BLP about the first year of rent cover. We have

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September 25, 2020 Politics / Condominium Law

Conversion ban: visiting the 11th Berlin Real Estate Talks on 29.09.2020/XNUMX/XNUMX

Achim Amann from Black Label Immobilien invited me to talk to him about real estate again, this time on the planned conversion ban

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June 4, 2020 Politics

Rental price brake extended in Berlin

Another 5 years rent brake in Berlin The rent brake came into effect in Berlin on June 01.06.2015, XNUMX and was for a term

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March 30, 2020 General / Politics

Guest contribution: Preliminary assessment of the COVID 19 bankruptcy suspension law (COVInsAG). By Philip Karrenstein

The Bundestag and Bundesrat have the law to mitigate the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in civil, bankruptcy and criminal procedural law in no time

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March 22, 2020 General / Politics

Structural changes in the real estate market: how politics is causing private landlords to sell

Renting as an investment Berlin is a tenant city. 83% of Berliners live in a rented apartment. That means 83% of Berliners

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23 January 2020 Politics

Documents on the current changes to the rental cover

History to date The key issues paper of June 18.06.2019, 5 stipulated that rents may not be increased for XNUMX years. The first draft of the

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22 January 2020 Politics / Condominium Law

WEG reform 2020 - the new position of the administrator

Current legal situation Currently, section 27 of the WEG stipulates what the administrator is allowed to do, in paragraph 2 regarding the

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20 January 2020 Politics / Condominium Law

WEG reform 2020 - an overview

historical overview The Housing Act (WEG) was enacted in 1951 in order to strengthen the urgently needed housing construction and broad sections of the population

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28 November 2019 General / Politics

The power of the condition - a comment on the car toll investigation committee Andreas Scheuer

For one thing, my contribution today does not concern real estate law but the civil law general part. The mechanics involved,

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31 October 2019 Politics

Current applications for rental and real estate law in the Bundestag and Bundesrat

The following are the motions and legislative initiatives of various members and fractions of the current German Bundestag and

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21 October 2019 Politics

Interview with Christopher Brée

Mr. Brée, you are sales manager at the oldest real estate company in Berlin, Artur Caesar Behrendt. Since 1888, ACB realizes real estate. how do you see

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16 October 2019 Politics

taz interview with me

Recently, I noticed several times that the journalism of the taz creates an astonishingly balanced impression. As far as I am concerned

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11 October 2019 Politics

Interview with Christopher Zebitz

Mr. Zebitz, you are the managing director of Zebitz & Heyden Real Estate GmbH, a Berlin family business. You have been mediating for 30 years

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7 October 2019 General / Politics

Interview with Holger Marquardt

Mr. Marquardt, Engel & Völkers is one of the larger brokerage companies in the German and therefore also in the Berlin market. you are

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2 October 2019 Politics

Interview with Alexander Schlüter

Mr. Schlüter, you work as a Transaction Manager at W&W Real Estate, a company that has so far been involved in real estate transactions worth

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1 October 2019 General / Politics

Press

Communication after waking up: Hello Tobias, who shot you in the brain? How sick must someone be if the

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September 28, 2019 Politics

Mietendeckel is a reason for termination

Loss of the business basis The intended content of the Berlin Mietenteckelgesetz is a serious inferior position of the legal position of the Berlin landlords. The possibility

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September 26, 2019 Politics

Video interview with me

Between all the lectures on Mietenteckel (Berlin), housing package (Federation) and case law (BGH, BVerfG) on the one hand and my actual work as a lawyer

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September 20, 2019 Politics / Taxes / Condominium Law

DIW: Regulation increases ownership

a direct relationship The German Institute for Economic Research has measured the effects of increased regulation in the housing market. The abstract

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September 8, 2019 Politics

Mietendeckel from the perspective of a private owner

two attitudes to Mietenteckel: Unbelief vs. Exit Through my blog I get a lot of information from people I have not

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September 2, 2019 Politics

Berlin without Mietspiegel

The current Berlin rent index 2019 will be the last for the time being. Because the Berlin Senate wants to introduce a Mietendeckel, in whose

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August 30, 2019 Politics

Berlin Senate approves Mietendeckel for Nuremberg

The Berlin Senate today launched a bill to cap rents in Nuremberg. After information

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August 28, 2019 Politics

current situation in the Berlin housing market

The caretaker Mr. X. manages around 2.500 apartments, mostly for private small owners. Recently, an 5 room apartment was vacated. The gas floor heating

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August 26, 2019 General / Politics

The red Berlin: strategies for a socialist city

If you want to read more about how parts of society want to transform our city politically, you will find it here. Problem is accordingly

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August 25, 2019 General / Politics

Berlin Mietendeckel: no problem

Today, the content of the rental cover planned by the senator was launched in the press: https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/radikale-einschnitte-in-den-wohnungsmarkt-das-steht-im-ersten-entwurf-des-berliner-mietendeckels/24938762.html You don't have to do much

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August 20, 2019 General / Politics / Condominium Law

Transformation: now!

Only a short window of time The GroKo would like to restrict the division of houses into condominiums. The Süddeutsche reports verbatim: “This

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August 14, 2019 Politics

MdB Kai Wegner on the Berlin housing policy

"Dear Mr. Scheidacker, ... As you correctly point out in your article, red-red-green aggravates the situation through a large number of dirigistic interventions

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August 10, 2019 Politics

Withdrawal from the right of first refusal - is that even possible?

Initial situation The district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg has exercised the right of first refusal for five houses in favor of a private institution (a cooperative). Indeed

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July 18, 2019 General / Politics

DIW misunderstands Berlin housing policy

A great proposal The DIW in Berlin yesterday put in a press release an excellent concept in the room: the

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July 15, 2019 General / Politics / Taxes

Why are the building permit numbers going back?

In the last 5 years the following happened: 2014 was introduced (in Berlin) the ban on misappropriation. 2015 became (nationwide) the rental price brake

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July 1, 2019 General / Politics

Federal Government prepares economic program for brokers

Thanks in advance Before going into my current topic, I would like to thank: my previous article on the impact

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June 26, 2019 General / Politics

Berlin housing market: ended

an interesting lunch I had lunch today with the Head of Transactions of a mid-sized real estate company and we talked

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June 16, 2019 General / Politics

Suggested solutions with expertise

Sometimes it takes a look from the outside, preferably from someone with expertise. Today, Joachim Voth, a professor, came forward

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June 12, 2019 General / Politics

Countdown

On the website of Haus & Grund Berlin these days there is a countdown showing the remaining time until the end

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20 May 2019 General / Politics / Taxes

Protection against dismissal for old tenants?

many parallel developments It happens again a lot crazy in real estate law. I have 6 weeks with other things

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4 April 2019 General / Politics

IW Cologne: Milieuschutzgutachten Berlin

The effects of environmental protection are not validated enough. In Berlin, although more and more protected areas are reported, so that a significant

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March 12, 2019 Politics / Taxes

Politics wants to further increase rents: land transfer tax on share deals

At present, Berlin politics is discussing how to close a justice gap: when private individuals buy a property, they pay 6% tax

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March 2, 2019 General / Politics / Taxes

new draft order principle for home purchase

new speaker's draft became known The ordering principle for housing leasing has been in force since June 2015, now the ordering principle for the

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March 1, 2019 General / Politics / Taxes / Condominium Law

Book presentation "The Property Scandal"

The vast majority of Germans would like to live in property. The majority - and the vast majority in

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29 January 2019 Politics

interesting studies on the (Berlin) housing market

“Poor, but sexy” goodbye - that is how Deutsche Bank calls a current study of the Berlin property market. After that currently begins

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June 4, 2018 Politics / Condominium Law

two common misconceptions

There are two types of technical errors. The first is a simple misinformation, for example, the assumption that only three

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16 May 2018 General / Politics

Privacy policy in the tenancy

The privacy madness has now captured all: landlords, service providers, developers of brokerage or property management software, website developers, craftsmen and of course realtors and property managers.

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  • public lecture on November 16.11.2023, XNUMX 7 November 2023
  • Feedback through article statistics 28 October 2023
  • Choice of law for foreign real estate 27 October 2023
  • Transfer against usufruct 26 October 2023
  • Documents for buying an apartment 25 October 2023
  • Guest article on the topic of securing liquidity and protecting against bad debts 15 October 2023
  • Interview in the Berlin Real Estate Talk on October 17.10.2023, XNUMX 12 October 2023
  • BGH: Setting up a notary's office is expensive, time-consuming and technically demanding 5 October 2023
  • BGH: No rent cap for basements September 28, 2023
  • Interview: Establishing a notary office in times of real estate change September 11, 2023
  • Inheritance and donation of real estate August 24, 2023
  • Interview: Inheritance and inheritance of real estate August 12, 2023
  • Tuesday, May 16th: 44th Berlin Real Estate Talk at BLP 9 May 2023
  • new order forms for notarizing apartment purchase contracts 8 April 2023
  • Continuation: Reduced Lending Values ​​by EU Directive? March 17, 2023
  • Save taxes with the EU March 16, 2023
  • Hard to believe: the end of the new building activity immediately? March 14, 2023
  • What do US government bonds have to do with the German real estate market? March 8, 2023
  • Broker commission for pre-emption rights 8 February 2023
  • Tenant right of first refusal 7 February 2023
  • interpreter in the certification 6 February 2023
  • The 14-day period for sales contracts 5 February 2023
  • How many notaries are there in Berlin? 4 February 2023
  • Don't be afraid of "professional beginners" - change in the admission requirements for the notary's office over time 3 February 2023
  • Due diligence when buying apartment buildings - here: rent 2 February 2023
  • Calculation of notary fees 1 February 2023
  • Who appoints the notary in a purchase contract? 31 January 2023
  • Can a notary certify nationwide? 30 January 2023
  • The GbR as a real estate seller (Part 2) 29 January 2023
  • The GbR as a real estate seller (Part 1) 28 January 2023
  • Tobias Scheidacker in an interview at BusinessTalk am KuDamm 24 January 2023
  • Annual Tax Act 2022 – increasing gift tax for transfers from January 01.01.2023st, XNUMX 31 October 2022
  • Finally notary! – Thematic extension of this blog and some personal insights. 22 October 2022
  • Tobias Scheidacker visiting the capital podcast August 26, 2022
  • LG Berlin: Rent index 2021 = simple rent index and suitable means of justification June 25, 2022
  • Practice of modernization consulting June 13, 2022
  • Important for apartment buyers: Have the purchase contract checked in advance! 29 May 2022
  • as a guest at the FAZ on Sunday 28 May 2022
  • Piston seizure 10 May 2022
  • Protection against rent explosion and termination for personal use 5 May 2022
  • 20 years tenancy 21 April 2022
  • CO2 clause in the rental agreement 18 February 2022
  • Adjustment of operating cost prepayments in the context of sharply rising energy prices 16 February 2022
  • AG Spandau: Berlin rent index 2021 is void. 13 February 2022
  • Own needs reports for the purpose of sale 16 December 2021
  • List of rental appraisers in Berlin September 5, 2021
  • job ad August 29, 2021
  • Re-letting without a rental price brake 15 May 2021
  • Rent increase without rent index 14 May 2021
  • Berlin without Mietspiegel 13 May 2021
  • Clubhouse 9:XNUMX - the relaxed real estate talk 16 April 2021
  • Tuesday, April 20, 2021 at 17 p.m .: Online seminar on the BVerfG's rent cap decision 15 April 2021
  • Friday 19 p.m .: Discussion about the rent cap decision 15 April 2021
  • 1 year rental cover 15 February 2021
  • Basics of the general power of attorney 20 January 2021
  • Summary of the rent cover 19 November 2020
  • Termination for personal use - seminar on November 30.11.2020th, XNUMX 4 November 2020
  • Fit for buying a home! Seminar on November 16.11.2020, XNUMX 15 October 2020
  • Rental cover seminar on October 06.10.2020th, XNUMX: lowering for December? September 26, 2020
  • Conversion ban: visiting the 11th Berlin Real Estate Talks on 29.09.2020/XNUMX/XNUMX September 25, 2020
  • District office Pankow puts an action under penalty payment July 29, 2020
  • structurally incorrectly calculated notices of rent from preis.de (Conny GmbH) July 28, 2020
  • Legal text on the prohibition of division June 16, 2020
  • Rental price brake extended in Berlin June 4, 2020
  • Merseburg District Court 19 May 2020
  • Guest contribution: Corona impact on the property market and risk minimization. By Nicolas Stelter 12 May 2020
  • Live conversation on May 5, 2020 at 19 p.m. 23 April 2020
  • Seminar on April 22.04.2020, 1 with two topics: 2. COVInsAG, XNUMX. Rent cover (current) 16 April 2020
  • Guest post: New cancellation joker? ECJ strengthens consumer rights. By Christian shoulder 8 April 2020
  • Guest contribution: Legal written form requirement for rental contracts for business premises and the possibility of ordinary termination in the event of a formal error. From Dr. Fedor Brunner 6 April 2020
  • Guest contribution: Preliminary assessment of the COVID 19 bankruptcy suspension law (COVInsAG). By Philip Karrenstein March 30, 2020
  • Guest contribution: rental moratorium and bankruptcy law in corona times. By Wilfried Stechow March 29, 2020
  • Corona law: suspension of payments due to loss of rent March 27, 2020
  • Structural changes in the real estate market: how politics is causing private landlords to sell March 22, 2020
  • Guest contribution: Rent reduction due to the corona virus? from Dr. Sascha Lambert March 16, 2020
  • Interview with Tanja Kamp March 10, 2020
  • The first week of rental covers: facts and figures March 1, 2020
  • MietWoG - avoidance of fines in case of ambiguities 24 February 2020
  • MietWoG - Obligation to provide information for foreign landlords 23 February 2020
  • MietWoG - the legal text 22 February 2020
  • Does the rental cover also apply to subleases? 20 February 2020
  • Press relations. Today: BZ 20 February 2020
  • MietWoG - Proposed wording regarding March rent and the following 19 February 2020
  • Administrator practice rental cover: Part 13 - What is a "demand" with a fine? 11 February 2020
  • Administrator practice rent cover: part 12 - rent reduction in 9 months 10 February 2020
  • Administrator practice rental cover: Part 11 - What actually happens after the law expires? 9 February 2020
  • Administrator practice rent cover: Part 10 - Obligation to notify modernizations before entry into force within 3 months after entry into force 8 February 2020
  • Administrator practice rental cover: Part 9 - Obligation to provide information about the calculation circumstances within 2 months after the entry into force 7 February 2020
  • Administrator practice rental cover: Part 8 - General information and submission obligation to the authorities immediately after entry into force without a period 6 February 2020
  • Administrator practice rent cover: Part 7 - Obligation to provide information about the circumstances of the calculation immediately from the entry into force without a period 5 February 2020
  • Administrator practice rent cover: Part 6 - Obligation to notify about the rental date as of the effective date without any deadline 4 February 2020
  • Administrator practice rental cover: Part 5 - Conclusion of new rental contracts 3 February 2020
  • Administrator practice rental cover: Part 4 - Is only the landlord or the administrator liable? 2 February 2020
  • Administrator practice rental cover: Part 3 - Not so hot because it's unconstitutional anyway? 1 February 2020
  • Administrator practice rental cover: Part 2 - Accepting rental payments 31 January 2020
  • Administrator practice rent cover: Part 1 - direct debits 30 January 2020
  • Seminar on the rental cover on February 17.02.2020, XNUMX 24 January 2020
  • Documents on the current changes to the rental cover 23 January 2020
  • WEG reform 2020 - the new position of the administrator 22 January 2020
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