Do the flats in germany, in the centre of a big city, have a garage or not?

Question

Do the flats in germany, in the centre of a big city, have a garage or not?

Answer 1

Very, very different.

There is a parking lot right behind my house, for instance, but you need to rent one of those extra as shop owners there use them as well.

In some cases, parking slots in front of houses are reserved for inhabitants (called "Einwohnerparkplatz"). In other cases, there might be an underground parking you can use or have to rent extra.

It really depends strongly on the city and the area within the city, so always ask for parking when you ask for information about a flat. :)

Answer 2

Most buildings (built from 1960 until now)

do have an underground garage, but usually you have to pay a small amount additional to the flat rent if you want to use it.

BUT: In most of big german cities there is a so-called "environmental zone" (e.g. in Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Cologne). According to the emmisions of your diesel-engined car, it may be forbidden to enter the inner cities of those towns with it.

This does not include any  cars engined with normal fuel or natural gas

Answer 3

Most modern ones do. Normally there is an underground car park.

Older flats (pre 1960ish) hardly ever have garages.

Nowadays most older places have reserved parking places on the street for permit holders.

EDIT: Incredible that all the people who know what they are talking about have all received a stack of thumbs downs!!!!

Answer 4

If you rent a flat in the centre of a big city, some of them have a parking ground in some sort of backyard, some have an underground car park (which you'll have to pay extra rent for), and some have no parking space at all, but you can park nearby on public ground, which requires you to buy something called an "Anwohnerparkausweis" (residents' parking permit) from the local community. It's very, very different from city to city and from neighborhood to neighborhood, even within cities, and the local rules are not always easy to understand.

To give you just one example: I'm from Bavaria, and I went to study in a different town, but same state. I rented a flat and there was parking space around, but I had to re-register my car to that community to get a parking permit. Later on, I moved to Berlin and rented a flat with a basement garage, and nobody even cared about my licence plate. Rent paid, car in, everything's fine.

But don't expect every apartment to have a garage ready. Ask for it if that's important to you. And don't rely on landlords telling you "you can park on the street nearby, there's always some free space", as mostly it's not.

Answer 5

If you live in a flat there is usually, not always, a row of garages nearby for each block of flats. These are usually rented separately from the flat. In some cities people either prefer to, or have to, park on the streets nearby.In the rows of garages available there is usually only a half dividing wall with the rest to or near the ceiling mesh wire.