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Building owners in Germany are to be able to submit their building applications digitally this year. Felix Pakleppa, Managing Director of the German Construction Industry Association (ZDB), welcomes this development. However, he is calling for mandatory guidelines. By the end of 2023, more than half of the lower building supervisory authorities are to go digital, according to the Federal Building Ministry. "That is...

At the second Photovoltaics Summit, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection Robert Habeck presented a strategy to strengthen photovoltaics. The strategy includes action plans in eleven areas, ranging from energy policy and securing skilled workers to technology development. "Photovoltaics is one of the cheapest energy sources of all and is one of the...

According to the Administrative Court of Neustadt an der Weinstraße, owners must place their waste garbage cans somewhere other than their property if it cannot be accessed by the waste collection service for factual or legal reasons (AZ: 4 K 488/22.NW). This applies in particular if access is only possible in reverse. The reason for this is that, according to the...

When selling, buying or financing your real estate wishes, a well-founded valuation is essential. An essential aspect that owners who want to sell their property on their own usually underestimate. The real estate appraisal is your ticket to a successful sale of residential or commercial property. Learn the "Why?" and "How?"...

Anyone who wants to buy an 80-square-meter existing apartment in a major German city will have to work for about 8 to 11 years to do so; for a newly built apartment, it will even take about 10 to 14 years. This is the result of an analysis by Immoscout24. In Munich, prospective buyers have to work a 5-day week (40 hours each) for an existing apartment for about 11.2 years, and for a newly built apartment...

A special area for modular construction will be on display at the "BAU" trade fair in Munich from Monday, April 17, to Saturday, April 22. The special area can be found in the atrium between the A and B halls. In addition, manufacturers and architects will present various projects in this regard in the Communication Area of Hall B0 from Monday to Friday at 1 p.m. each day. Serial construction has already been...

The Münch Foundation has now published a guide to "Energy efficiency in hospitals". In it, it has investigated where, with regard to the factors "lighting and illumination", "circulation and circulating pumps", "solar energy and photovoltaics", "room climate and cooling", "combined heat and power plants", "heating and steam boilers", "building insulation" and "energy-saving...

If moving companies throw unauthorized advertising material into mailboxes or place it in front of houses, it could be expensive for them. The Munich Local Court has threatened to impose an administrative fine of up to EUR 250,000 or up to six months' imprisonment on a removal company in the event of a repetition of this practice (Ref.: 142 C 12408/21). In the case in question, all the mailboxes of a...

If landlords have concluded collective contracts with cable providers, they should check a possible termination. The portal mietercheck.de points this out. The reason for this is the abolition of the so-called ancillary cost privilege for cable charges. A corresponding law in addition stepped already on 1 December 2021 into force, however still a transition period applies up to 30 June 2024. The...

In his commentary "The housing market could put the ECB in a bind," Deutsche Bank Research analyst Jochen Möbert assesses the current situation on housing markets. He says, "If inflation remains high, further interest rate hikes could lead to distortions in housing markets." In his opinion, housing markets could find it difficult to cope with further interest rate hikes....