Find an Apartment in Munich — The Very Best Tips


Munich is the most difficult city in Germany to find a suitable apartment  (Hamburg comes second) . There are however a few tricks that can help you increase your chances of finding a nice place to live:

Use your personal network:

Let everyone you know you are hunting for an apartment.  If someone knows you are looking, someone might remember you if they find out about a free apartment.  For a complexity of reasons, apartments for rent in Munich are like gold-dust, and unless you’re a seasoned prospector you’ll likely come up empty handed, and in frustration grab the discoloured nugget you stumble across.

Offline Media:

Newspapers and classifieds markets are a good resources that often goes untapped by the majority of flat hunters. This creates the potential for under-the-radar finds. The competition is many times smaller, and it is still a preferred medium for advertisements from the older generations, who are often also the real estate owners.

You could even go one step further and place an advert in the real estate part section of a local paper or magazine, or perhaps in the “kurz and fundig”.

Hunt around town

If you already live in Munich then you have an advantage.  Get out and walk or cycle around areas you like, and keep an eye out for adverts that are actually seeking renters.

People often place offline media within a small radius from the place they want to rent. Just check out lamp-posts near the U-Bahn, supermarket billboards, notice-boards outside children’s playgrounds, and you will find pieces paper that advertise some really nice places.

You have to be quick to arrange a viewing because these adverts don’t hang around long, and the downside is you will have to visit in person in order to have any real idea of what the place looks like.

Another tactic used by flat-hunters is to advertise themselves to interested parties. This is quite a time-intensive strategy, as you have to physically go around attaching your plea for housing to (generally) lamp-posts. Visit Smoover for more.

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