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> In general the German population doesn’t care about owning property (last I saw only 40% of the country had actual interest in home ownership) and so this puts the market in the hands of the landlords entirely.

In general, at least around big cities(100 km radius from München, for example), the "german" population does not afford a house. A new house is around 450000 euros and the land under it is also between 200 - 500 Euros per square meter. For a lot of people, especially migrants, this is undoable. If course if you go in forgotten places with no industry, no public transport and a lot of neo nazis you can find affordable housing.