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Berlin is the most regulated major European coliving market, and accordingly the most challenging to underwrite. Margins are tighter than Lisbon or Austin but the demand base is deep (Berlin is Europe's #2 startup hub by funding). The investable thesis is long-stay corporate / professional, not flex-stay.
RevPAB (monthly)
€650-€820
ADR (per bed-night)
€22-€28
Stabilized occupancy
85-92%
Avg length of stay
8.5 months
Property OpEx ratio
62-72% of revenue
Cap rate range
4.5-6.0% (stabilized, low because of demand depth)
Target IRR
9-13% (5-year hold)
N26, Zalando, Delivery Hero, HelloFresh + ~20,000 startup employees. 9-month average stay. Stable, high-creditworthiness tenant base.
~25% of Berlin's coliving demand from non-EU professionals on Blue Card / job-seeker visas. Long stays (12+ months) are the norm.
TU Berlin, FU Berlin, Humboldt, combined ~150k students. Coliving captures the 'too old for dorms, too young for stable apartment' segment.
Wunderflats / Medici-style demand from corporate relocations and short-term assignments. Higher ARPU but also higher churn.
~5,000 operator-led coliving beds across Greater Berlin. Habyt is the dominant operator at scale. Wunderflats / Medici Living serve corporate. New supply concentrated in Friedrichshain, Neukölln, Wedding. Mietpreisbremse caps ceiling growth, top-line revenue is structurally constrained.
German Mittelstand family offices active at 10-30 unit scale. Pan-European institutional (Patrizia, Round Hill) at 100+ unit scale. EUR debt at 3.0-4.5% for stabilized assets. Berlin's cap rate compression makes it a capital-attractive but margin-constrained market.
Pre-1949 buildings in Friedrichshain, Neukölln, Wedding. Large floorplates, character, ~€15k-€25k/bed all-in capex including Brandschutz upgrades. Brandschutz is the biggest single line item.
Post-war modular blocks in outer Berlin. Lower acquisition cost, fewer character premiums. Suits 50-150 bed corporate-focused schemes (Wunderflats / Medici archetype).
Berlin housing cooperatives are increasingly open to coliving partnerships in their development pipeline, typically delivering ~30 beds at submarket rents in exchange for community-anchor commitments. Slow but capital-efficient.
€650-€820 per bed per month at stabilization. Mietpreisbremse caps the upside meaningfully, operators win on occupancy + length-of-stay rather than rate.
Demand depth. Berlin's tenant base is the largest stable coliving demand pool in continental Europe. Capital is willing to accept narrower margins for predictable occupancy and lower default risk.
No, not compliantly. Zweckentfremdung treats sub-6-month stays as non-residential use requiring permits that are essentially unavailable. Berlin coliving is a long-stay residential product or it doesn't exist legally.
Friedrichshain, Neukölln, Wedding for new supply. Habyt's recent additions concentrate in Friedrichshain. Tempelhof has community-led models. Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg are Milieuschutz-restricted and fewer new schemes are licensed.
Last reviewed: 2026-05-11. Benchmarks refreshed quarterly. Spot something out of date? Tell us.
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