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  • DIW Economic Bulletin 12 / 2012

    German Cities to See Further Rises in Housing Prices and Rents in 2013

    Over the past few years, prices and rents for flats went up in most German cities. This trend is expected to continue in 2013. Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, and Frankfurt am Main will still see the highest increases in property prices and rents. In these cities, housing prices are rising much faster than rents. By contrast, stagnating or even falling prices are forecast for the cities in the Ruhr area. ...

    2012| Konstantin A. Kholodilin, Andreas Mense
  • Externe Monographien

    Map of Policies Supporting Thermal Efficiency in Germany's Residential Building Sector

    The Eurozone is still stuck in a downward spiral: high public and private debts weigh on potential growth; gloomy prospects for growth prevent the further reduction of these debts. A European plan to support growth should be a complement, and not a substitute, to the ongoing efforts to reduce public deficits. It should both encourage structural reforms and incentivize investments. In the short term, ...

    Berlin: CPI ; DIW, 2011, 20 S. | Hermann Amecke, Karsten Neuhoff
  • Externe Monographien

    Information Tools for Energy Demand Reduction in Existing Residential Buildings

    Conducting a building thermal efficiency retrofit (or further thermal retrofit) is a long and relatively complex decision-making process involving building owners, managers, residents/tenants, and construction industry professionals. A variety of information instruments exists to support participants at each stage of this process. This paper highlights the existing literature on information instruments ...

    Berlin: CPI ; DIW, 2011, 32 S.
    (CPI Report)
    | Aleksandra Novikova, Hermann Amecke, Karsten Neuhoff, Kateryna Stelmakh, Bernadett Kiss, Clemens Rohde, Elisa Dunkelberg, Julika Weiß, Kaisa Matschoss, Sarah Darby
  • Press Release

    German construction industry booming despite decline in energy-efficient refurbishment

    DIW Berlin’s construction volume calculations: construction industry remains a key pillar of the German economy—need for action in energy-efficient refurbishment and in accommodating refugees The construction industry remains a key pillar of the German economy: buildings worth a total of around 338 billion euros will have been constructed or modernized in Germany by the end of this year—2.7 ...

    02.12.2015
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Urban House Prices: A Tale of 48 Cities

    In this paper, the authors construct a unique data set of Internet offer prices for flats in 48 large European cities across 24 countries. The data collected between January and May 2012 from 33 websites, are drawn from Internet advertisements of dwellings. Using the resulting sample of more than 1,000,000 announcements, the authors compute the quality-adjusted city-specific house prices. Based on ...

    In: Economics 9 (2015), 2015-28, S. 1-43 | Konstantin A. Kholodilin, Dirk Ulbricht
  • Diskussionspapiere 1530 / 2015

    Fifty Shades of State: Quantifying Housing Market Regulations in Germany

    The paper aims at measuring the rental housing market regulations in Germany between 1913 and 2015. Four classes of housing policy are considered: Rent controls, tenant protection, rationing of housing, and fostering of social housing. Based on a thorough analysis of federal and regional legislation, for each class, an index is constructed, increasing in degree of regulation. The average of class-specific ...

    2015| Konstantin A. Kholodilin
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Small Might Be Beautiful, but Bigger Performs Better: Scale Economies in "Green" Refurbishments of Apartment Housing

    The energy efficiency of the residential housing stock plays a key role in strategies to mitigate climate change and global warming. In this context, it is frequently argued that private investment and the quality of thermal upgrades are too low in the light of the challenges faced and the potential energy cost savings. While many authors address the potential barriers for investors to increase energy ...

    In: Energy Economics 50 (2015), S. 240-250 | Claus Michelsen, Sebastian Rosenschon, Christian Schulz
  • DIW Economic Bulletin 4 / 2014

    Improved Energy Efficiency: Vital for Energy Transition and Stimulus for Economic Growth

    As part of the energy transition process, the German government has set far-reaching energy efficiency targets, including doubling the annual rate of building renovation to upgrade energy performance from one to two percent. DIW Berlin has estimated the additional energy-savings-related investment required to meet these targets and analyzed the impact this could have on the economy. In the long term, ...

    2014| Jürgen Blazejczak, Dietmar Edler, Wolf-Peter Schill
  • DIW Economic Bulletin 4 / 2014

    Energy Upgrades: The Longer You Wait, the Harder It Gets: Seven Questions to Dietmar Edler

    2014
  • Diskussionspapiere 1360 / 2014

    Business Confidence and Forecasting of Housing Prices and Rents in Large German Cities

    In this paper, we evaluate the forecasting ability of 115 indicators to predict the housing prices and rents in 71 German cities. Above all, we are interested in whether the local business confidence indicators can allow substantially improving the forecasts, given the local nature of the real-estate markets. The forecast accuracy of different predictors is tested in a framework of a quasi out-of-sample ...

    2014| Konstantin A. Kholodilin, Boriss Siliverstovs
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