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Three arguments about rent, heat and value

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Rent-setting data5 min read

A rent increase letter should show its working

When a German landlord justifies a rent increase with comparison flats from its own portfolio, the tenant cannot see the hundreds of flats it might have named instead. Fairness depends on a selection rule the tenant could apply and check.

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Rent-setting data

  1. Rent-setting data5 min read

    A rent increase letter should show its working

    When a German landlord justifies a rent increase with comparison flats from its own portfolio, the tenant cannot see the hundreds of flats it might have named instead. Fairness depends on a selection rule the tenant could apply and check.

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Heating-cost data

  1. Heating-cost data5 min read

    Heating data should reach the tenant before the bill does

    A German tenant usually learns what last winter's heating cost many months after the winter ended. Remote reading and the carbon-cost split now make it possible, and necessary, to govern heating data for the tenant first and the annual statement second.

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Valuation data

  1. Valuation data5 min read

    Send the valuer the repair backlog

    External valuers of residential portfolios estimate repair spending from construction year and convention, because owners rarely send them what caretakers and surveyors already know. A data tape without the owner's bad news is a weak control over fair value.

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