Housing Market Monitoring Hamburg Metropolitan Region

The Hamburg Metropolitan Region, which comprises the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and parts of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony, and Schleswig-Holstein, is examining the feasibility of a regional housing market monitoring system. Coordinated housing market monitoring makes spatial structures, spatial processes, and housing needs transparent. It enables effective and sustainable decisions in areas of action such as settlement development and housing policy.

Based on this, it must deliver core findings, for example on the demand and supply of the housing market as well as the market framework. Accordingly, the monitoring, through a valid database, shall create the analytical foundations for regional dialogues on housing development, also by involving regional stakeholders and future users from the various sectors.

The feasibility study is intended to reconcile the content and objectives of monitoring and formulate quantitative and qualitative minimum requirements. This includes technical feasibility as well as data-related feasibility. Within the scope of the project, in close coordination and division of labour with the project partners, I will provide services in the area of monitoring conception, identification of relevant and suitable indicators, and participation (in particular, online surveys). (Note: The project descriptions, which I have modified and presented here, were jointly developed by the respective project participants.)