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It seems rather far fetched to have such low rents over time in a big EU city like Berlin. It is unavoidable that capital will flow into the city and compete for real estate. Not only that, but how they expect to get investments if you cannot increase rent?

Having a housing market based mostly on rent obfuscates the other side of housing, namely the owners need to take care of said house.

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If transportation is good enough, it isn’t that unreasonable. While I am impressed by Berlin’s public transport, that’s by comparison with the UK — Berlin shares one problem with the UK, however, and that is that high speed intercity trains feom nearish cities take an hour, but so to do internal trams, trains, S-Bahns and U-Bahns coming from the inside edge of the city.

Uhm, how do you know house maintenance costs increased as well?

Seriously, what kind of argument is that. Just because other cities are expensive as fuck, Berlin has to be as well?

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