Hi everyone,

One of the hardest things when moving to Berlin is figuring out whether a rent offer is actually reasonable.

You can look at apartment listings, but those only show what landlords are asking right now. And if you're new to the city, you often don't have enough local context to know whether €900, €1,300 or €1,700 warm for a certain area is normal or completely out of line.

That is why I started building **GermanyRent.de**.

The idea is simple:

People who already rent in Berlin can anonymously share what they actually pay, and those rents appear on a map for others to explore.

Each rent includes useful context like:

* warm rent
* number of rooms
* deposit
* furnished or unfurnished
* when the current rent started
* optional apartment size and other details

You can search around a neighbourhood, open individual rent reports and use filters to compare similar apartments.

No **Sign-Up, Account, Name or Email** is required to contribute.

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I think this can be especially useful for people who are new to Berlin, because one of the biggest problems is that old and new rental contracts can look completely different.

Someone who has lived in the same apartment for 8 years may be paying far less than someone signing a similar contract today, which is why I added **Rent Since** as part of each new submission.

There is one important limitation too.

The submissions are anonymous and currently not verified with rental contracts or other proof, so incorrect values are possible. I therefore see the map as an **additional reference point**, not an official rent index or a source of verified market prices.

At the moment, there are **206 community-reported rents across Berlin**, with a median reported warm rent of **€1,100** among the current submissions.

You can explore the map here:

[**https://germanyrent.de**](https://germanyrent.de)

If you're already renting in Berlin, adding your rent can also help the next person who is trying to understand what apartments around them actually cost.

Let me know what you think. There is still so much more I can do with this data.

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Moving to Berlin and wondering if your rent is normal? I built a map to help compare