Lukinski Real Estate Tools – App #1

It all started with this app or idea at Christmas, two months later the app (v.1.0) is ready and in the App Store!

The idea: Real estate app for beginners

There are thousands of apps for nutrition, thousands for sports, millions for gaming, and only a handful of real estate apps, mainly for apartment hunting.

Then at Christmas I had the idea: I build very simple real estate and financial calculators for beginners. The Lukinski Immo Tools App. Example: You can explain a repayment plan (interest, repayment, loan installment, unscheduled repayment) in a complex way in guidebooks with a thousand words or just show it. My teacher in business school used to say: “Don’t bring fish to the ‘poor’, give them a fishing rod”, a simple quote from the south of Bavaria, but containing a lot of truth. “Learning by doing” would also be apt. See our Real Estate Munich.

15+ small calculators for equity, savings plan (reserves), amortization schedule, incidental purchase costs by state, real estate transfer tax, realtor costs and much more!

The real estate app for beginners with the goal:

1. Build equity
2. Find cheap property
3. Buy real estate (as an investment)

New functions of the real estate app

In the coming weeks and months, I will refine the calculators and build new calculators, also for owners. Already now you can find in the app also the co-ownership calculator (purchase of a condominium > part of an owners association) or also living space calculation, functional area and much more, all according to DIN 277 and WolfV.

Download from App Store

Here you can find the free real estate app in the stores:

Free of charge in the App Store!

You can also find out more about the app and the calculators here:

• Lukinski Immo Tools App

Lukinski Villas App: Vacation Property & Investment – App #2

Vacation property or investment (live and rent or rent only), in the Lukinski Villas app you can now find a selection of gems in Ibiza, Marbella, Los Angeles, Miami (and more places).

On my travels, especially in the Spanish-speaking world, I make more and more contacts. Some of them lead to the real gems: Villas in Ibiza, Marbella, Los Angeles (and other hotspots). With the Lukinski Villas App you can discover a few of these gems, as a vacation property or as an investment (live in and rent out or just rent out).

Download from App Store

You can find the free Villas app in the stores here:

Free of charge in the App Store!

You can also find out more about the app and the Villas here:

• Lukinski Villas App

Real Estate Experience App: Learn Investment – App #3

How do you learn to “buy a property”? The best way is with the Immobilien-Erfahrung.de app. 30 steps, constructed by our expert, to the first property.

In addition, in the app you will find the entire wiki with over a thousand technical terms, explained simply and understandably.

Download from App Store

Here you can find the free real estate app in the stores:

Free of charge in the App Store!

You can also find out more about the app and how to become an investor here:

• Real Estate Experience App

FIV Magazine App: Fashion & Real Estate Magazine – App #4

Already over 25 issues of FIV Magazine, my little media baby of the 90s, my “little Vogue”. All issues are now available for free with all covers, interviews in the FIV Magazine App.

Download from App Store

Here you can find the free real estate app in the stores:

Free of charge in the App Store!

You can find out more about the app and the magazine here:

• FIV Magazine App

Real estate news: overpriced rental apartments for students

Nowadays, it is no longer a rarity for young people to move away from their parents or from the countryside to urban regions as part of their studies or training. Since many (prospective) students naturally pursue this plan, the demand for apartments is a never-ending stream. From a purely economic point of view, demand determines price, and rental prices for 1-room apartments and shared flats are correspondingly high. Even small student rooms with just enough space for bed and wardrobe can quickly cost a small fortune – especially for enrolled students who also have to pay the semester fees at the same time. Especially hubs like Berlin, Cologne or Munich are not afraid to let the prices skyrocket, but also in Frankfurt many a student will ask themselves if commuting is not the better and cheaper alternative.

T-Online about cost traps when buying a house

If your family grows or you change jobs, you are quickly confronted with the problem of finding a new place to live. Especially in the case of permanent or long-term changes, the purchase of a house offers itself directly instead of renting. But be careful! Not every provider is serious and also brokers are often focused on their own profit. Clauses quickly creep into the purchase contract that cause hidden costs for the buyer – and the unknowing customer falls unsuspectingly into the cost trap. How you can avoid this and other problems and dangers around and in the house, they learn this week at T-Online with topics such as “The dream of the house – incidental costs when buying a house – here lurk the cost traps” and “Moisture damage – mold in the apartment – Who has to bear the costs”. New topics of the week:

• Service charge settlement – Landlords and tenants must not miss this deadline
• Moisture damage – Mold in the apartment – Who has to bear the costs
• The dream of the house – additional expenses with the house acquisition – here the cost traps lurk

Cost traps when buying an apartment: What to do in case of hidden defects?

The Frankfurter Allgemeine about horrendous rent costs for students

This week there is something exciting from the Frankfurter Allgemeine on the topic of rental prices and the everlasting stream of students on the hunt for a rental apartment or a shared room in the city centers. Other sample topics include “Gentrification: high rents are a very effective limit” and “Landlord survey: those who move less often rent more cheaply”. More news from this week:

• Gentrification: “High rents are a very effective boundary”
• Shared rooms and apartments: This is how much rent students now pay
• Landlord survey: Those who move less often rent more cheaply

The Handelsblatt about student housing in Munich and Cologne

The Handelsblatt also deals with the topic of rental prices for students in major German cities. Handelsblatt also reports this week on “Expensive land, rising interest rates – it’s getting uncomfortable for developers in Germany” and “The digitalisation of the German real estate world is still in its infancy”. More headlines of the week:

• Digitisation of the German real estate world is still in its infancy
• Apartments cost students more and more rent
• Expensive land, rising interest rates – it’s getting uncomfortable for builders in Germany

The star about mold control in the home

The blog of the star deals among other things with the topic of mold in the house and how to avoid it. Especially in old houses or in basements it can quickly happen that mold spreads unasked on the walls. Mould also quickly feels at home behind furniture and in airless niches. And if it is only once in the house, how one gets rid of it again? The star clarifies how to protect yourself and your wallpaper from damage. “Useful household tip: Condensation on the window: this is the cause – and so you protect yourself from mold” and “Energy consumption: in this house, electricity and heating cost only two euros a year” are our reading tips of the week. More news from the blog:

• Energy consumption: In this house, electricity and heating cost only two euros a year
• Useful household tip: Condensation on the window: This is the cause – and this is how you protect yourself from mould
• Housing: Only when we have fun saving again will the housing shortage disappear

Quarks enlightens about the origin of house mold

Focus Online on the rules for rent increases

Do you have surplus living space and don’t know what to do with it? The solution is obvious: renting. Strengthening your own turnover and making others happy with a rental property in the process, a great thing! How you as a landlord can spread the costs for conversions, renovations and Co. among your tenants and which rules have to be observed, you can find out this week at Focus Online under “Rules at a glance: What is allowed in a rent increase – and what is not”. The Focus Online blog also reports on “Putting landlords under pressure: Apartment too cold? When you can reduce the rent if the heating is defective”. More news from the blog:

• IW Cologne study: More than 600 euros for 30 square metres! This is how much student apartments cost in your city
• Pressure the landlord: Apartment too cold? When you can reduce the rent if the heating is defective
• Rules at a glance: What is allowed – and what is not – in the case of a rent increase

Süddeutsche Zeitung about language barriers among tenants

This week’s blog of the Süddeutsche Zeitung is not only about modular houses but also about language barriers among tenants. Especially in metropolitan areas, it is not uncommon that prospective tenants apply to an advertisement who speak little to no German or English, and how do you then explain to your tenant why you have set what amount for the service charge statement – without a common language? You can find out which possibilities there are to tear down these barriers and simplify cooperation, and other exciting topics this week in the blog of the Süddeutsche Zeitung under “When words are missing” and “Vorgebaut”. Updates and news from the blog:

• When words fail
• New building area in Moosen
• Pre-assembled

Manager Magazin on the American Dream of the Brexit bankers

There are also new headlines from Manager Magazin this week, because even after Brexit the topic is still relevant. The new Mecca of bankers, the financial American Dream after Brexit, the most beautiful city on the Main – Frankfurt! The top topics this week in Manager Magazin therefore “Helaba study: Frankfurt is main destination for Brexit bankers” as well as “In Germany already “rather late in the day”: major investors see end of Europe’s real estate boom”. Other headlines:

• In Germany already “rather late in the day”: major investors see end of Europe’s real estate boom
• Helaba study: Frankfurt is the main destination for Brexit bankers
• Housing benefit, social housing, taxes: These are the results of the housing summit