Overview
- The Berlin Mietspiegel 2026 is now in force and reports a median net cold rent of €7.71 per square metre based on about 17,000 data points covering roughly 1.6 million flats.
- The Mietspiegel is the legal basis for the ortsübliche Vergleichsmiete and therefore influences what landlords may demand under rules such as the Mietpreisbremse and the Kappungsgrenze.
- Independent analyses from Immowelt and ImmoScout24 document a sharp erosion of affordability in major cities, for example Munich now yields about 48 m² for €1,000 of cold rent and Frankfurt about 61 m².
- Local responses differ: Leipzig’s municipal housing company LWB pledged to build more than 2,000 homes by 2035 with over half at subsidised rents, while Saxon housing associations say new construction collapsed in 2025 and rising costs block affordable supply.
- New municipal rent tables are contested in several cities because of disputed data and methods, most notably Frankfurt where both landlord groups and tenant organisations reject the new Mietspiegel and warn it could skew investment incentives and trigger legal conflicts.