Structure of housing vacancy in Germany. A Typology of Attributes of the German Housing Census 2011 in German Municipalities
The vacancy rate is a key indicator of housing market monitoring and is used to assess housing market situations. In Germany, the vacancy rates of cities and rural areas vary widely, which is due to the different characteristics of the housing stock e.g. in terms of building age or flat size. Up to...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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oekom verlag GmbH
2019-06-01
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| Series: | Raumforschung und Raumordnung |
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| Online Access: | https://rur.oekom.de/index.php/rur/article/view/324 |
| Summary: | The vacancy rate is a key indicator of housing market monitoring and is used to assess housing market situations. In Germany, the vacancy rates of cities and rural areas vary widely, which is due to the different characteristics of the housing stock e.g. in terms of building age or flat size. Up to now, there are hardly systematic analyses of the vacancy structure which capture the full variation of vacancy patterns. Against this background the paper aims at detecting the different structure of vacancies for German municipalities. Therefore, small-scale data from the Building and Housing Census (GWZ) 2011 is used, covering the whole country. The vacancy data can be differentiated according to 50 characteristics which are checked against their explanatory power for the vacancy rate. Based on this, spatial vacancy types are built that reflect the vacancy structure in Germany at the municipal level. The paper underlines that building age as well as building and flat size have the highest explanation power. However, there are clear differences between Eastern and Western Germany, for example with regard to ownership. The typology of municipalities sharpens and spatially locates these findings. In addition to east-west and urban-rural differences there are types of vacancy structure that occur throughout Germany. The paper presents an analysis which helps to differentiate, evaluate and classify vacancy structures. The results allow to derive evidences for urban planning or housing policy measures as well as to qualify the housing monitoring at the federal level.
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| ISSN: | 0034-0111 1869-4179 |