Reportage by Makis Synodinos
Rents have skyrocketed and, combined with rising commodity prices, have derailed the family budget.
According to market executives, the accumulated demand on the one hand, the low availability of real estate for rent on the other, as well as the non-granting of new mortgages by banks in recent years, are the 3 main reasons for the large increases in rents. .
Typically in many areas of Athens there has been an increase in rents of up to 50% in the last two-three years.
Angelos Skiadas talks about a dramatic situation president of the panhellenic association for the protection of tenants while through skai.gr appeals to the competent bodies to find a solution as he typically says “There is a complete impunity on the part of the owners, in the end I am afraid that we will have extreme situations because when the other is under threat of eviction with his children I do not know how he can to react “.
According to Mr. Skiadas, the reasons why the rents have skyrocketed are in part the purchase on airbnb as many houses left the market for permanent residence and were channeled to airbnb, but also because in recent years there have been no renewals of leases resulting in the owners to increase them as much as they want.
“People come here and they are desperate. Some are tenants whose contract has expired and their landlord is even asking for a double rent otherwise they are threatened with leaving and others are evicted and can not find a house to rent with reasonable rents.
The problem is that with the financial crisis too many leases have been made indefinitely and the owners are not renewing the leases. This means that from the moment the owner decides to evict him, he must leave in 15 days. So you understand what happens when the other person has children.
Once upon a time there was a tolerance for 2-3 rents that the tenant was late in paying and even the courts considered it abusive. “Now that has changed and if a rent is delayed, with the so-called wage refund order, he can get you out of the house in 40 days at the most and now we have many such cases because people can not cope.”
According to the Panhellenic Association for the Protection of Tenants, there are two measures to be taken immediately
First, to extend the leases from the current 3 years to at least 6 and second, until they balance things a little, to have a maximum permissible rent which will not allow the owner to rent a house above a percentage of the fair value.
The non-availability of many properties while there is a demand for rent is the main reason for the large increase in rents according to Eleftherios Potamianos, President of the Attica Brokers Association.
According to Mr. Potamianos, this happens for 3 further reasons. The fact that in recent years during the crisis the construction activity had frozen with the result that not many new houses were built in urban centers in order to have a greater supply of real estate, that there are many blocked properties in banks and funds as a result they have been withdrawn from the market plus the short-term lease of real estate especially in the center (rbnb) observed in the last 4-5 years.
All these reasons contribute to the fact that not many properties are available in the market and those that already exist raise the rental prices.
“We, the brokers who know the prices that are moving and what is happening, try to put the owners in a context of a proper start of their property. But beyond that, the owners do not always take into account the opinion of the expert. is also to take the rent that corresponds to that given moment and not to get involved and everything because it is important that the tenant does not tell them in 2-3 months I do not have to give you and then run to court “
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