Germany/Housing/Rent/Berlin

This article lists housing options in Berlin. Where possible, the links lead directly to the search results for Berlin.

There are also lists for other German cities.

Short-Term Rentals

The following options are convenient for stays from 2 weeks to 12 months.

Furnished Apartments & Rooms

• Offers on Homelike: flats
• Offers on Homestay: rooms
• Offers on Nestpick: flats & rooms
• Offers on Flatio: flats & rooms
• Offers on Airbnb: flats & rooms
• Offers on Facebook Marketplace: apartments & rooms, long & short, both furnished & unfurnished

Rooms & Flatshares

• Offers on WG-gesucht.de: private ads, unfurnished or furnished rooms
• Offers on WGcompany.de: private ads, unfurnished or furnished rooms
• Offers on WG-Suche.de: private ads, unfurnished or furnished rooms

Long-Term Rentals

Long-term rentals are for usually longer than 12 months.

In Germany, such rentals usually require more paperwork. Read Apartment Renting in Germany to prepare. In return, with such a long-term rental, tenants are better protected by German law.

When renting an apartment long-term, it is mostly unfurnished.

Classified ads

These websites connect landlords and apartment seekers. Click on the offers to contact a landlord.

• Offers on Immobilienscout24.de: biggest German search site, mostly unfurnished flats
• Offers on Immowelt.de: mostly unfurnished flats
• Offers on Immonet.de: mostly unfurnished flats
• Offers on Immobilio
• Offers on Ebay-Kleinanzeigen.de: private ads, mostly unfurnished, or furnished sublets

List of Landlords

These are websites of landlords themselves. Some of them list their offers only on their own websites. But you contact them directly, without the need of a broker.

Housing Companies

• Deutsche Wohnen – offers, offers on ImmoScout24
  • areas: various

• WBM – offers, application, offers on ImmoScout24
  • areas: Mitte, Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Spandau

• Howoge – offers, offers on ImmoScout24
  • areas: Lichtenberg, Treptow-Köpenick, Pankow

• Gesobau – offers, offers on ImmoScout24
  • areas: Pankow, Weißensee, Wedding, Wilmersdorf, Märkisches Viertel

• Stadt und Land – offers, offers on ImmoScout24
  • areas: Neukölln, Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Steglitz, Treptow, Hellersdorf, Köpenick, Charlottenburg, Wilmersdorf, Marzahn

• Degewo – offers, offers, offers, offers, offers, offers on ImmoScout24
  • areas: Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Kreuzberg, Tiergarten, Mitte, Wedding, Reinickendorf, Pankow, Friedrichshain, Neukölln, Marienfelde, Gropiusstadt, Marzahn, Treptow, Köpenick

• Gewobag – offers, application, offers, offers, offers on ImmoScout24
  • areas: Lichtenberg, Spandau, Moabit, Mariendorf, Buckow, Rudow, Prenzlauer Berg, Reinickendorf, Tegel, Tempelhof, Treptow-Köpenick

• Fortuna – offers, offers on ImmoScout24
  • areas: Marzahn, Biesdorf

• Felix – offers
  • areas: Hellersdorf

Housing Cooperatives

Cooperatives work a bit different than regular landlords. Read more on Wikipedia: Housing cooperative.

• DPF – offers, offers on ImmoScout24
  • areas: Pankow, Mitte, Marzahn, Hellersdorf, Lichtenberg, Treptow-Köpenick, Lankwitz

• Berliner Bau- und Wohnungsgenossenschaft von 1892 – offers, offers on ImmoScout24
  • areas: Mitte, Treptow, Neukölln, Tempelhof, Charlottenburg

• Wohnungsgenossenschaft Friedrichshain – offers, offers on ImmoScout24
  • areas: Friedrichshain, Hohenschönhausen, Lichtenberg

• Charlottenburger Baugenossenschaft – offers, offers on ImmoScout24
  • areas: Weissensee, Reinickendorf, Charlottenburg, Wilmersdorf, Spandau, Steglitz

• Grüne Mitte – offers, offers on ImmoScout24
  • areas: Hellersdorf

• Nordlicht – offers, offers on ImmoScout24
  • areas: Marzahn

• Wohnungsgenossenschaft Altglienicke – offers, offers on ImmoScout24
  • areas: Altglienicke

• Gewiwo – offers, offers on ImmoScout24
  • areas: Wittenau, Tegel

• Wohnungsgenossenschaften.de – offers
  • areas: various

• Wohnungsgenossenschaft Weissensee – offers
  • areas: Weißensee

• Merkur – offers
  • areas: Pankow, Lichtenberg, Treptow-Köpenick