Ho appena ricevuto questa email dopo che il mio ex proprietario ha venduto il suo appartamento.
Durante uno degli appuntamenti per la visione, mi è stato detto che il contratto non sarebbe cambiato.
Devo accettare questo? Vivo qui da maggio 2023. Quali sono le mie opzioni?
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di blessed_nri
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If they didn’t increase the rent since you lived there the 15% increase is sadly within the allowed max of 20% every 3 years.
>During one of the viewing appointment, I was told the contract would not change.
These are two different things.
A sale (unlike particularly foreigners often believe) neither allows someone to cancel your contract, nor to force you into a new contract. The new landlord “inherits” the contract you have.
But the rules for any landlord when it comes to rent increases (and things like Eigenbedarf) apply to the new landlord too. And even if the old one didn’t raise the rent when they could have, the new one might do it.
Rents in existing tenancies can rise by up to 20% within any three-year period when adjusting to the local comparative rent (ortsübliche Vergleichsmiete), proven via rent index, expert opinion, or comparable apartments.Â
[https://www.immoverkauf24.de/services/vermietung/vermietung-a-z/kappungsgrenze/](https://www.immoverkauf24.de/services/vermietung/vermietung-a-z/kappungsgrenze/)
Unrelated to the legality of the increase I just want to note that the way this is written is way too casual. Who uses a leading question and “!?” in a business mail…
Probably legal, but you want to check your local Mietspiegel for your specific apartment (size, location, condition) and see what it actually says for comparable units. If it’s over 385 EUR, then your landlord has a case. Honestly 335 EUR looks pretty cheap to me (unless it’s a studio in the middle of nowhere).
Landlords can legally raise the rent by 15-20% every 3 years (as long as it’s under the Mietspiegel limit) With 2 months notice, so that’s May 2026… The new landlord knows his shit.. They’ll likely keep raising it every 3 years until it approaches the Mietspiegel..
This could be legal, but you should know, that the new owner inherits the contract you’ve had with the previous owner. so if the old owner had increased the rent recently (less tahn 15 months ago), the new owner cannot increase now.
Furthemore, you explicitely need to agree to an increase of the rent. If you do not agree, the new LL cannot increase the rent. However, he could sue you to enforce an agreement. So you should carefully check if the increase is within the legal limits. If no: do not agree, because the new LL will most probably lose in court. If the increase is within the legal limits: you should agree, because the LL will most probably win in court.