Germany is set to extend rent controls in popular residential areas until the end of 2028. Justice Minister Marco Buschmann has submitted a draft bill to lawmakers from the three-party coalition, aiming to extend the national brake on rental prices that was due to expire in mid-2025. Support for tenants was a key feature of the coalition agreement between Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD), the Greens and the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP). The current regulations, in force since 2015, prevent landlords in sought-after neighbourhoods from hiking rents in new contracts. The Just…