Even in western countries, approximately 55% of people who rent housing, and in the former East Germany, according to the Statistical Office of Germany, removable housing enjoyed by almost 70%, writes Est.

This particular feature of the German residential real estate market due to the fact that during World War II, much of the housing stock was destroyed, while the majority of funds for the purchase or construction of housing was not. Therefore, in the postwar years in Western Germany bet on the construction of the so-called public housing, and in the GDR - the massive public building.

The Germans rented accommodation and are not considered a disgrace. And even many very wealthy people fundamentally do not buy real estate. Some of them - to maintain mobility and others - because they simply do not want to shoulder the property-related chores, others prefer to live in a rented space in areas where housing was buying them obviously can not afford it.

In Germany, legislation issues such as a lease, as well as the terms and conditions of its dissolution, the right to charge and change the rent, repairs checked housing, clearly regulated. Therefore, tenants feel from a legal point of view is very secure. Besides defending their interests influential public organization - German Union of Tenants (Deutscher Mieterbund) with numerous offices across the country.