Beginning of the year: Berlin wholesale market dealers criticize rent increases

Numerous small and medium-sized companies on the Berlin wholesale market are confronted with significant rent increases at the beginning of the year.

Beginning of the year: Berlin wholesale market dealers criticize rent increases

Numerous small and medium-sized companies on the Berlin wholesale market are confronted with significant rent increases at the beginning of the year. "The letters announcing the adjustments to rents have been sent out since the beginning of the year," said the chairman of the Beusselmarkt dealer community, Nils Doerwald, on Wednesday. It is about rent increases between 15 percent and 22 percent. "While the rent increases are contractually correct, they exceed our worst expectations."

The dealer community has a basic understanding of rent increases. The state-owned Berliner-Großmarkt-Gesellschaft (BGM), owner and lessor of the site, must pursue economic goals. But private and commercial tenants in the country would be treated unequally. While a rent freeze applies to private tenants of state-owned housing associations until the end of this year, the increase in commercial tenants threatens the existence of the companies.

"We will not be able to prevent the prices for fresh food from rising further as a result of the rent increases," Doerwald said. BGM owns the wholesale market location in north-west Moabit, where there is the Fruchthof Berlin as well as a meat and flower wholesaler. The Berliner Tafel is also located here.

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