The heating and hot water costs make up a good part of the “second rent”. Photo: Thomas Engel
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Tenants in Germany have to pay an average of EUR 2.17 per square meter per month for operating costs. If you add up all conceivable types of operating costs with the respective individual amounts, the so-called second rent can even be up to 2.88 euros. That is an increase of around 2.5 percent compared to the previous year. This can be seen from the current operating cost table. These are the results from the current operating cost table that the German Tenants’ Association is now presenting on the basis of the accounting data for 2018. For an 80 square meter apartment, all types of operating costs would have to be raised for the 2018 accounting year.
Heating and hot water account for around 50 percent of the operating costs actually paid
The costs for heating and hot water remained stable in the 2018 accounting year and averaged EUR 1.03 per square meter per month.
Here, the level of costs is mainly determined by climatic influences, the energetic state of the apartment and large price differences between heating oil, gas and district heating, as well as between the individual gas and district heating suppliers. ___STEADY_PAYWALL___
The data evaluated by the German Tenants’ Association show a range of EUR 0.69 to EUR 1.82 per square meter per month. For an 80 square meter apartment, this results in average heating and hot water costs of 988.80 euros per year. Ultimately, around 50 percent of the operating costs actually paid are for heating and hot water.
Operating cost table: an average value that does not replace an individual billing check
Lawyer Martin Grebe from the Dortmund tenants’ association. Archive photo: NSB.
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However, the tenants’ association Dortmund and the surrounding area warns against the assumption that the appropriateness of an individual billing can be assessed on the basis of the operating cost table.
“The information in the operating cost table is average. The actual operating costs can be higher or lower in individual cases. In addition, the operating cost schedule cannot be used to justify the appropriateness of operating costs in court. Here, the actual costs are decisive in each individual case, ”explains lawyer Martin Grebe, head of tenancy and housing law in the tenants’ association.
“However, it offers tenants and those looking for accommodation the opportunity to classify their operating costs. It does not replace an examination of the utility bill by the tenants’ association. “
A free guide to tenant rights for utility bills and the operating cost table are also available free of charge at the Dortmund tenants’ office at Kampstrasse 4.
Further information:
- Deutscher Mieterbund: Explanation of the types of operating costs and the operating cost table; here:
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