Tag Archive for: Living Berlin

Berlin rent cap overturned! Constitutional Court ends experiment – retroactive rent payment threatens

Berlin rent cap – The Berlin rent cap is illegal and thus inadmissible! This was decided by the Federal Constitutional Court in April. While some housing companies did not increase their rents back to the old level despite the end of the rent cap, many landlords now demand repayments and put the rents back up. […]

Sell land Berlin: building land, arable land, forest & meadow – how it works

Selling Property Berlin – You want to sell your property or are currently thinking about selling it? In this guide, you will learn about the process, from the preparation phase to the marketing phase to the purchase transaction, all around the purchase contract, purchase price and taxes (more on this: Taxes in Germany). Very few […]

Civil law partnership (GbR): formation, liability, legal form, management, taxes

Gesellschaft bürgerlichen Rechts (GbR) – The Gesellschaft bürgerlichen Rechts is a German legal form which is established by two or more persons for a certain period of time in order to conduct a certain business together or to achieve a common goal. It is therefore always for a specific purpose and usually exists only as […]