Status: 05/02/2023 06:00 a.m
Rents in Lower Saxony continued to rise in the past year. There were double-digit price jumps even in rural areas, as the NDR found out exclusively from the Federal Ministry of Construction. An overview.
Renting has become more expensive again in Lower Saxony in 2022. The average price per square meter for the basic rent was 7.81 euros. This emerges from the answer of the Federal Ministry of Building to a request from the left-wing member of the Bundestag Victor Perli from Wolfenbüttel. The rents are highest in Lüneburg and in the district of Harburg. Here you have to pay an average of more than 10 euros cold rent per square meter. The independent cities of Oldenburg, Osnabrück and follow just under 10 euros Göttingen as well as the districts of Stade and the region of Hanover.
Rent index: the districts of Holzminden and Lüchow-Dannenberg are the cheapest
Lots of dikes, few people: Lower Saxony’s easternmost district (Lüchow-Dannenberg) is the district in Germany with the fewest inhabitants. (archive image)
The cheapest places to live are in the districts of Holzminden and Lüchow-Dannenberg. Here you pay an average of less than six euros per square meter. The average price per square meter is also under 7 euros in the Wesermarsch, Northeim, Nienburg, Goslar and Hameln-Pyrmont, as well as in Salzgitter and Wilhelmshaven.
Rental prices are also climbing in the country – for example in Delmenhorst
But the trend continues to point upwards. In some rural regions in particular, rents rose sharply between 2021 and 2022. Rents in Delmenhorst rose by more than 13 percent, in the districts of Aurich and Osterholz by around 11 percent and in the district of Northeim by 10 percent.
Large cities nearby – higher rents
The metropolitan region of Hamburg stretches deep into Lower Saxony. That’s why rents are rising there, say experts. (archive image)
Reinold von Thadden, legal counsel at the Lower Saxony-Bremen tenants’ association, explains this on the one hand with a catch-up effect. Because living in these districts and cities has so far been relatively cheap. On the other hand, according to von Thadden, it is noticeable that these districts are located near larger cities where rents have been high for a long time. People would now apparently switch to the closer surroundings of these expensive residential areas. Delmenhorst and Osterholz could be of interest to people from Bremen, as could the district of Northeim for those for whom Göttingen is too expensive.
Price plateau reached in expensive regions?
On the other hand, rents have risen only moderately in the municipalities where living has already been relatively expensive – such as in the Hanover region, in the Harburg district, in Braunschweig, Oldenburg or Osnabrück. But there are also districts and cities in Lower Saxony where average rents have fallen: in Cloppenburg, Cuxhaven and Wolfsburg, for example. Reinhold von Thadden from the tenants’ association explains: A lot has been built in Wolfsburg in recent years. That seems to be relaxing the housing market now. Rents will only go down if supply goes up. That is why von Thadden considers building to be more effective in the long term than rent control. In any case, the left-wing member of the Bundestag Victor Perli sees politics as a duty. According to Perli, you have to ensure affordable housing for everyone.
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