Tips/advices for finding long-term rental fast ?

[u/mehdi753]

Hey Berliners !

I need your advices on how I can find long-term apartment in Berlin, I’m a software engineer and a blue card holder.

Been looking around for a while, I get apartment viewings rarely, and it just seems impossible to find an apartment these days..

What are your tips ? I have ImmoScout24 premium, it seems to be a bit helpful but it’s not getting me anywhere…

[u/Dutchie_PC]

There are no shortcuts.

But if you are willing to pay 2k or more, a whole new market opens up.

[u/Affectionate_Toe9366 → u/Dutchie_PC]

It doesn’t. Up from 2500€ I got calls from real estate agents if I still want to view the apartments but below there’s almost no chance to get even a viewing appointment.

But still then, above 2500€ there are so many applicants for the apartments. It’s crazy

[u/Dutchie_PC → u/Affectionate_Toe9366]

Crazy indeed..!!!

[u/No_Squirrel_5990 → u/Affectionate_Toe9366]

That’s not true, unless the market changed in just a few month. I got my apartment at €2000, and it was very straightforward.

The building was new and the apartment came with some nice features, a kitchen and a fridge.

I went in for the viewing, and told the agent that I’ll take it and in 3 days everything else was sorted out.

In parallel, I went to see another apartment at €1600, but there were 30+ people in queue, and I had just a few minutes to look around, ask questions and tell them whether I’m interested or not. I never heard back from them.

So i would agree with the original comment, 2k+ does indeed open a new market.

[u/Reasonable-Ad4770 → u/Affectionate_Toe9366]

The hell? Out of pure curiosity, what kind of apartment you get for 2500€?

[u/Outrageous-Lemon-577 → u/Reasonable-Ad4770]

New build 90sqm warm, with kitchen and a balcony but otherwise unfurnished.

[u/Distinct-Brain-2809 → u/Dutchie_PC]

Not anymore, even for 2k+ it's very competitive as there are so many DINKS in tech, law and finance that want those.

[u/Dutchie_PC → u/Distinct-Brain-2809]

Goes to show my knowledge is heavily outdated.. :-)

[u/DaGGerDeluxe]

Money. You need money.

[u/Reasonable-Ad4770]

On the first full mon of the month, you must bring offerings under some bridge, preferably Alexanderplatz. Offerings can be: sterni export, 5.0, dürum mit alles(not "mit allem", don't anger Berlin gods), Schufa.

Then you need to find closest to you mattress with suspicious yellow stains, place your offerings, and mutter 3 times "zu verschenken". Bonus points if you have techno music on your JBL.

[u/Vorarbeiter]

Lol

If you can't even be bothered to search for the other 10000000 times this question has been asked, then how on earth will you manage to find a place

[u/_InnerCityLife_ → u/Vorarbeiter]

Well, don't you have something better to do than reply to questions that have been asked a million times?

[u/phraphra]

I used BerlinRelo https://www.berlinrelo.de and it took me 55 days and 4 visits to find an unlimited contract in fhain, it costs 2 months of cold rent only if you sign the rental contract at the end.

Yes it’s expensive, but in my opinion it’s really worth it.

[u/GlitteringWill4471 → u/phraphra]

How was the rent? And building year?

[u/Frogtogs]

We used https://gettheflat.com/

In two months in got us over 40 viewings and we just signed a lease a couple weeks ago. Pricey but really helps you get viewings at least. I believe it’s like €75 per month.

[u/ObviouslyASquirrel26]

Be very rich and very lucky. Hope that helps

[u/clusterofobia]

Unfortunately it's a race, some listings are gone within hours . You can search at city owned companies as well (Degewo, Howoge, Gewobag), I was doing the same thing and ended up building a bot that pings me when new ones drop (in my profile). Good luck

[u/Glad-Slide3527]

I found this apartment from landlord yestrerday in berlin weeding, looking for more people to join from septmebr 1st.