Tenants Association: price drivers location Supplement finally stop

Location Supplement for the greatest price driver for Hire in the old building – a tenant Association renews call for real price limits in landlord and tenant law.

Vienna (OTS) – The joint rent action, the tenant Association (MVÖ) and the tenant assistance of the city of Vienna, 500 rent checks have been carried out, has shown once more that the System of the indicative value of rents as a price shock failed. Because of 500 verified Rent 400 were inflated significantly, at an average rate of 3.50 euros per square metre and month.

One reason for the excessive Rent that is criticized – by the MVÖ for years – Lack of clear legal guidelines for price increases and reductions in the benchmark system. The largest price drivers in the benchmark system is the so-called location award for „above average“, which has risen since 2012, up to 215%. So currently around 1. The district will be added to 10,93 Euro per square meter per month on the rent, and in Parts of other districts up to 4,16 euros per square meter and month.

Whether and up to which amount a surcharge is allowed, you must decide in case of dispute, the court. After the Supreme court (OGH) had made it clear at the beginning of 2018, in the assessment of a situation, not the plot critical costs, but the „General public’s perception and the experience of everyday life“, the city of Vienna with the aid of numerous experts in your location Supplement card accordingly.

„The new location surcharge card is an important guide in the daily practice,“ explains MVÖ-landlord and tenant law expert Hans Sandrini. „Like any assessment by an expert, the card is only a legally non-binding recommendation. The assessment of whether a situation qualifies as an (above-)average to, is a question of law and therefore to solve alone by the court.“ For clarity in the situation may supplements – because the tenancy is a Federal law – the Federal government. Contrary to all announcements of a long overdue regulation is missing here, however.

In the face of skyrocketing rental costs, the MVÖ renewed its demand to abolish the position surcharges. „Currently, tenants pay twice: First, they Finance with their tax money to public infrastructure such as subways, kindergartens, Parks or schools, and then you have to pay a higher rent,“ says Elke Hanel-gate, Vienna Chairman of the MVÖ. „Housing must be affordable. We urgently need a tenancy with a real price limits and no location surcharges.“