Police cleared one of Berlin's last squats on Friday, as a symbol of the German capital's free-spirited ideals faces the reality of soaring rents and gentrification.
If you rent an apartment in Berlin, you should have received a letter from your landlord in recent weeks. We spoke to an expert who tells us why it's the key to dropping your rent - but why you need to take certain precautions.
A new workspace for US tech giant Amazon is expected to bring thousands of jobs to Berlin's Friedrichshain neighbourhood. But does that come with a cost?
Berlin's parliament on Thursday passed a controversial law to freeze rents for the next five years in a bid to combat soaring rents and rapid gentrification in the German capital.
The Local partnered with YouTube channel Easy German to ask Berliners on the streets of the eastern neighbourhoods Prenzlauer Berg and Mitte what’s changed since November 9th, 1989.
Berlin authorities came under fire Friday for
spending almost €1 billion to buy back 6,000 former public housing
apartments that had been privatized, to bring down soaring rental prices.
Rents in Berlin are not only rising excessively for private apartments – but also in commercial properties. Here’s how the local government wants to take action.
The state government in Berlin is taking over 670 apartments in the former East of the city from private ownership after an outcry over gentrification in the German capital
Berlin's government on Tuesday moved to
freeze rents in the booming German capital for five years from 2020 in their latest bid to halt runaway gentrification.
Berlin authorities will decide Tuesday whether to freeze rents in the booming German capital over the next five years, in what would be their latest bid to halt runaway gentrification.
Google has called off plans to open a campus in the Kreuzberg area of Berlin. After months of anti-gentrification protests, the tech giant announced Wednesday it has given the site to two social organizations.
In protest at scarce and unaffordable living space, activists occupied several empty apartments in Berlin on Sunday and Monday, leading to police evictions in buildings in Neukölln and Kreuzberg.
123 German police officers were injured in Berlin and 86 people detained during clashes between police and protesters over the redevelopment of a district in the east of the city.
Police in Berlin had to clear crowds from in front of a new vegan restaurant, after hundreds of hungry hipsters packed the street outside, threatening to bring traffic to a standstill.
The Berlin senate revealed on Monday that the capital is growing at double the pace that city planners had previously expected. But after decades of stagnation the growth is seen as positive.
Native Berliners' dislike of newcomers from Stuttgart - stereotyped as wealthy and clueless - is so established it even has a special name - Schwabenhass. Now Berlin's Swabians are fighting back by poking fun at themselves.
Twitter users in the capital's Kreuzberg district reported that men arrived with cranes and spotlights on Thursday night to paint over two of the capital's most famous street art pieces.
UPDATE: An iconic building in Berlin, which was occupied by squatting artists for two decades, has been sold to a US investment fund for €150 million.
Determined seniors living in a former Berlin retirement home are using an online campaign to take on a Swedish property developer in a bitter dispute over spiking rents and living conditions. Guest reporter Tomas Urbina met them for The Local.
Long considered the land of renters, Germany is normalizing and people are increasingly buying their own homes, a new study suggests. This is pushing up prices, with rises of up to five percent expected this year alone.
Berlin rent increases are to be capped, more flats built and a ban put on holiday lets in the centre – all part of a raft of measures passed by the city Senate to address an apparent chronic housing shortage.
For Berlin ice-cream magnate Niko Robert, business is going a little too well. An unending queue outside his shop is cause for complaint from neighbours and driven him to raise his prices to deter customers.
