Austria's federal government is planning radical rental price stop for 2025!

Austria's federal government is planning radical rental price stop for 2025!

In a pioneering step, the Austrian government decided to stop a rental price for old building apartments from April 1, 2025. This measure aims to stop the rising rental prices and will affect around 300,000 households living in real estate that were built before 1945. According to information from the Kosmo.at website, the guideline and category rents are frozen, and in 2026 and 2027 only increases of one or two percent are planned. Rental prices in the open market are initially not affected, which further fueled the debate about the topic.

In the first Council of Ministers of the new government, further significant decisions were made. The State Secretary for Housing, Michaela Schmidt, said that the rent stop will create a total of 140 million euros for tenants. She emphasized that the rental editions would otherwise have increased by three percent, as well as The press reports . This should not only create relief, but also to secure middle flows into households. The government also finds support from Family Minister Claudia Plakolm, who emphasizes that this measure should reduce the financial pressure on families and young couples.

changes in the budget and other measures

In addition to the rental price stop, the government has launched measures to renovate budgets, which include, among other things, the increase in banking and the abolition of the educational leave. The State Secretary Pröll and Schmidt stated that the budget should be decided by the end of April or early May at the latest. These steps are necessary to get the budget loads under control and to create a sustainable financial basis that also has existed at the EU level, as kosmo.at reports. The government faces time pressure to find sustainable solutions in good time, while the Chamber of Labor also demands that the freely financed apartments should also be included in the rental price.