Rental database

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The rental database according to § 558e BGB was introduced by the rental law reform 2001 in German rental law as a means of justification for rent increases in the apartment rent as evidence of the local comparative rent. It is characterized by the fact that it is managed or recognized jointly by a municipality or by landlords and tenants' associations . Rental prices that have been agreed in a specific municipality are continuously collected in the database.

The practical importance of the rental database has remained small compared to the rent index because the data is not necessarily representative. The (usually chargeable) information from the rental database is not judicial evidence, nor is it presumptive. The introduction of such databases was often not carried out for reasons of data protection law.

literature

  • Hubert Blank: rent index and rent database. In: New tenancy law. 20th Berchtesgaden Talks from April 25 to April 27, 2001. Schmidt, Cologne 2002, pp. 17–34, ISBN 3-504-61003-4
  • Renate Szameitat: Dead-end rental database? WuM 2002, 63.