The costs that are to be paid are property tax - this is different from town to town but very small (between 150 Euro and 300 Euro usually for an apartment per year, a bit more for a single-house; it depends on the size of the property ground).

The maintenance reserve fund, which is mandatory when owning an apartments as part of a community, is usually about 0.75 to 1.5 Euro per square meter living area per month.

Garbage pickup, water, common house electricity, housekeeping, maintenance of the heating system etc. are additional costs which sum up to about 0.5-2 Euro per square meter per month. All of these have to be paid by the tenant if apartment or house is rented out. Even the property owning tax normally needs to be refunded by the tenant to the owner or should be made part of the normal utilities prepayments.

Frequent Questions | Tuesday, April 18th, 2006 at 10:03 am

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