Shortly before the start of the winter semester, shared rooms in Munich have become more expensive again. This is indicated by an analysis by the Moses Mendelssohn Institute in cooperation with the placement platform wg-gesucht.de, which is available to the German Press Agency.
For Munich, the analysis currently shows that a typical room in a shared apartment costs 790 euros. That is 40 euros more than a year ago and 90 euros more than two years ago.
Munich is the most expensive city for the fifth time
Munich is the most expensive city in the analysis for the fifth time in a row. It is followed by Frankfurt with 680 euros, Berlin with 650 euros and Hamburg with 620 euros.
“This winter semester has again shown that the comparatively cheap offers were very quickly removed from the internet. People who are admitted to study very late or who cannot arrange accommodation locally because, for example, a visa has not yet been issued are subject to greater market pressure,” said project manager Stefan Brauckmann.
Nationwide average for shared rooms: 489 euros
Costs have also recently risen nationwide, albeit at a slower pace. Here, the study comes to an average value of 489 euros. Since the winter semester of 2023/2024, shared rooms have become on average 17 euros more expensive. Students can find cheaper accommodation in Siegen (330 euros), Jena (328), Wismar (325) or Chemnitz (290). However, the data here is not as reliable as at the much larger locations.
For the evaluation, more than 9,000 offers that were posted online in the last two weeks of August were analyzed nationwide. Offers for all 88 German university locations with more than 5,000 students (excluding distance learning and management universities) were taken into account – according to Brauckmann, 90.5 percent of students are enrolled there. Only offers for a room in a shared apartment with a total of two or three residents were included in the evaluation. New establishments were not taken into account.
Student Union appeals to landlords
Just a few days ago, the Munich Upper Bavaria Student Union called on landlords to rent out rooms and apartments in Munich. “Help young people enter a new, important phase of their lives and offer them an affordable roof over their heads,” it said in a press release.
According to preliminary figures from the State Office for Statistics, almost 50,000 additional students could come to the Munich metropolitan area and the surrounding area at the start of the semester. “There is an incredible discrepancy between the available living space and the demand,” said a spokesperson for the student union. The student union can allocate almost 9,000 apartments, while at the same time, every September there are an average of around 12,000 students on the waiting list for a place in a dormitory.
