Skip to content

Further sharp fall in house prices in the third quarter

Prices for residential real estate in Germany continued to fall sharply in the third quarter from July to September. Prices fell by an average of 10.3 percent compared to the same quarter of the previous year - the sharpest decline since the time series began in 2000, according to the Federal...

Construction site in Berlin-Mitte.aussiedlerbote.de
Construction site in Berlin-Mitte.aussiedlerbote.de

Further sharp fall in house prices in the third quarter

Since then, prices have been falling compared to the previous quarter. From the second to the third quarter, house prices fell by 1.4 percent.

The trend was evident in both rural and urban regions, the statisticians reported. Prices for detached and semi-detached houses fell more sharply than prices for owner-occupied apartments. In sparsely populated rural districts, for example, prices for detached and semi-detached houses fell by 12.4 percent compared to the same quarter of the previous year, while prices for condominiums fell by 5.6 percent.

According to the statistics, prices for detached and semi-detached houses in the seven largest German cities fell by 12.7 percent compared to the same quarter of the previous year, while the decline for condominiums was 9.1 percent. The cities are Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt am Main, Stuttgart and Düsseldorf.

Read also:

Source: www.stern.de

Comments

Latest