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Frankfurt's residential leasing market entered 2026 as one of Germany's tightest and fastest-growing, defined structurally by chronic undersupply rather than by cyclical demand swings. The JLL Living overview for the second half of 2025 put the median asking rent at roughly EUR 19.06 per square metre per month, up about 5.8 percent year-on-year, with existing-stock rents around EUR 18.59 (+6.2 percent) and prime 90th-percentile rents reaching EUR 28.80 (+4.1 percent). These market asking levels sit far above the regulated benchmark: the official 2026 Mietspiegel records a local comparative rent of only EUR 12.28 per square metre, itself up 6.8 percent versus 2024. That widening gap between free-market and regulated rents is the defining feature of the leasing market and the source of both its momentum and its political friction. Demand is anchored by the banking and financial-services cluster, EU and corporate relocations, Goethe University, and steady population growth, while supply is throttled by high construction and financing costs, the near-completion of the big greenfield districts, and the Baulandbeschluss quota that mandates at least 30 percent subsidised space in new areas. Vacancy is effectively at a frictional floor, so reletting on turnover is where landlords capture the steepest uplift, subject to the Mietpreisbremse cap of ten percent above comparative rent and to Milieuschutz statutes that constrain modernisation in protected quarters. Submarket pricing is clearly stratified: Westend and Nordend lead the premium tier at roughly EUR 18-21, Sachsenhausen follows in the high teens, while Bornheim, Gallus and the new-build Europaviertel offer mid-market entry points with stronger relative growth as gentrification and corporate-relocation demand build. The regulatory backdrop is unusually heavy and tightening: the Mietpreisbremse and Milieuschutz cap achievable income, and the ABG rent freeze extended to 2030 signals persistent constraint in the large municipal stock. For tenants the market is difficult and expensive; for landlords of unregulated free-market product it remains highly attractive, with reletting the key value lever. The consensus for 2026 is continued mid-to-high single-digit growth in free-market rents on a well-filled but slow-delivering pipeline, even as affordability ceilings and regulation temper expectations in the regulated segment. Overall the leasing market is best read as late-cycle and tightening, with scarcity rather than demand the binding force.

vacancy: 0.5 %; new let rent: 28.8 EUR/sqm/month (prime 90th percentile); avg asking rent: 19.06 EUR/sqm/month; mietspiegel median: 12.28 EUR/sqm/month.