Housing Market Report Berlin 2025

”Poor but sexy”, as Klaus Wowereit outlined his Berlin in 2003, has long since ceased to correspond to reality.

Berlin has changed a lot in the last twenty years and is now an economically successful metropolis with a high potential for attraction. High-tech companies, knowledge and service companies have successfully established themselves and the cultural diversity and openness also make Berlin highly attractive internationally.

However, due to the housing shortage, Berlin is now also the city with the third-highest average rents in new lettings in Germany after Munich and Frankfurt. Companies looking for an apartment for their employees are often unsuccessful, as are the numerous high-earning professionals who are drawn to Berlin. This makes it difficult for companies to find qualified employees or to relocate here.

In order to get the problem of the lack of housing under control, the Berlin Senate reacted in December 2024 with the Faster Building Act and the future federal government has also named the issue of housing shortage in the coalition agreement. It remains to be seen how quickly the implementation will succeed. At least the state-owned housing companies and some private developers are ensuring that new housing construction stabilizes despite many obstacles.

This year, our Housing Market Report is once again intensively dedicated to the individual districts and the metropolitan area of Berlin. At the same time, in this year's special topic, we take a look at the residential real estate markets in other international capitals and metropolises. Our guest speakers offer interesting ideas and food for thought for urban planning - not only for Berlin.

This 11th Housing Market Report Berlin appears solely as a digital publication for the first time. In other words, we not only want to share our information with you, but also do our part to help reduce resource consumption and CO₂ emissions.