Since it became clear that the reference interest rate, which is decisive for rents, will rise in 2023, horror scenarios with massively increasing rents have been swarming. It’s a good thing that the Federal Housing Office is now taking countermeasures.
When the reference interest rate increases, rents usually increase.
The Federal Housing Office (BWO) invites you to a media conference on Thursday to mark the publication of the mortgage reference interest rate. As unspectacular as that sounds, it is unusual. In the case of the quarterly publication of the interest rate, which is used to determine the development of rents in existing tenancies, a communiqué has always sufficed.