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The city of Darmstadt is planning a vacation rental statute like in Frankfurt. Private landlords must then have holiday homes approved.
Holidays in Darmstadt are apparently in demand. Whether in the city apartment, the maisonette apartment in the Woogsviertel or in the 70 square meter apartment on the Mathildenhöhe: For the first week of the summer holidays, around half of the private holiday apartments and houses offered on the Airbnb Internet platform are occupied. 95 vacation homes are still available.
But the uncontrolled offering of private holiday apartments should soon be over. The city of Darmstadt is planning to introduce a vacation rental statute – as it has only existed in Frankfurt since 2018 in Hessen. This is to tackle the acute shortage of living space. The magistrate has already decided on the statutes, the city council still has to approve it.
According to the city, rental of living space as holiday apartments on commercial internet platforms has been professionalized in recent years, and in Darmstadt too, “developments are recognizable according to which apartments are only rented for short-term periods of use, for example to tourists, company guests or trade fair guests”. This misappropriation exacerbates the tense situation on the housing market, said Councilor Barbara Boczek (Greens). “This type of use is therefore undesirable in terms of housing.”
Apartments
According to estimates there are around 200 private holiday apartments in Darmstadt. So many total accommodations (excluding single rooms) are also listed on Airbnb.
80 500 apartments took place in Darmstadt in 2020. According to the Institute for Housing and Environment, a total of 103,000 apartments will be needed in 2040. In addition, there is currently a shortage of more than 2500 social housing. cka
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From October 2021, owners should have their vacation home approved. But to do this, they first have to create replacement living space or make a compensation payment. How high this could be is unclear. At the request of the Frankfurter Rundschau, the city announced that “the possible calculation variants are currently being examined by the administration”. The administrative costs have already been set at 300 euros. A violation can be punished with 25,000 euros.
Criticism comes from the apartment owners: “The administrative effort causes additional costs and does not make a decisive contribution to relieving strained housing markets,” said the managing director of Haus & Grund Hessen, Younes Frank Ehrhardt. It is incomprehensible “that non-binding estimates are used to justify interference with the owners’ freedom of property”. Haus & Grund denies that “there is a significant number of affected holiday apartments in Darmstadt that would justify the adoption of a holiday apartment statute”.
In 2019, a total of 103 unapproved offers were made in Frankfurt. The proceedings are concluded in the case of 26 residential units. This makes it clear how little importance the enactment of the vacation rental statute has, said Ehrhardt.
The Darmstadt lawyer Christian Kramarz also complains that you cannot force anyone to rent out his apartment for a long time. It is important to clarify about it. In Frankfurt, for example, someone had to pay a fine of 6,000 euros for renting out his apartment for twelve days.
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