[creed]

Sorry to say but reading this as a native Berliner is really difficult. It seems like the author has never spoken to any German that has been involved in housing in the last 10+ years.

I can only second what others in the comments here have already pointed out: current housing and housing prices feel fundamentally broken and completely disconnected from wages and realistic mortgages.

[bierjunge]

It's not only in the major cities like Berlin, Munich or Hamburg. Prices skyrocketed even in smaller cities like Karlsruhe or Heidelberg. A 40m² flat can be 300.000€++ and you will need to renovate it. 20 years ago, you could get a house for the money.