Dresden rent index: get the online figure, check the limits
Dresden offers an online rent index; bring its result together with the rent brake and the cap here.
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Maximum rent at the start of the tenancy
€750.20
€69.80 too much per month
| Local reference rent | €11.00/m² |
| Reference rent for your floor area | €682 |
| Rent brake | applies until 30 June 2027 |
| Increase cap | 15 % in three years |
| Limit: reference rent + 10% | €750.20 |
You can only reclaim after a written complaint. If it arrives within 30 months of the start and the tenancy is still running, it reaches back to the start (Section 556g(2) BGB).
How we calculateDresden's 2025 rent index (Dresdner Mietspiegel) is the city's fourteenth and a qualified index. The social welfare office commissioned it from a Hamburg institute; it surveyed rents paid on 1 April 2024, and the tenants' association and Haus und Grund took part in a project group. It applies from 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2026, and the city has announced an update for 1 January 2027. According to the city, the average rent of all Dresden households is €7.33 per square metre. The calculation uses a base rent by floor area and factors for age, location, fittings and energy performance. Because the city grants neither a licence nor an express release for the figures, this calculator takes no Dresden table values; the city offers an online rent index whose result you enter. Dresden is in Saxony's ordinance with Leipzig: rent brake and a 15 per cent cap until 30 June 2027.
How the Dresden index calculates
Dresden uses a factor model. The starting point is a base rent that depends on floor area. It is then multiplied by factors reflecting the building's age, the residential location, the fittings of bathroom, kitchen and flat, and the energy performance of the building. All factors combine into an overall factor, and the index places a range around the resulting value. An institute estimated the model from the surveyed rents; the project group of city, tenants' association and owners' association reviewed and recognised the results.
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Edition | Dresdner Mietspiegel 2025 (qualifiziert; 14. Dresdner Mietspiegel) |
| Type | qualified, Section 558d BGB |
| Valid from | 1 January 2025 |
| Valid until | 31 December 2026 |
| Publisher | Landeshauptstadt Dresden, Sozialamt, Abteilung Interner Service/Grundsatz/Sozialplanung |
| Figures on this site | none: rights are reserved |
| Rent brake | yes, until 30 June 2027 |
| Increase cap | 15 % until 30 June 2027 |
From the online result to your limit
The City of Dresden online rent index gives the reference rent for your address. With that figure the rent check works out the ceiling for a new lease: with the example assumption of €7.90 for 58 m² it is €504.02; anyone who agreed €560 pays €55.98 a month too much. For an increase it checks the cap and gives the date by which you must answer: 31 December 2026 for a letter received on 14 October 2026.
With an index-linked rent the rent index plays no part in increases; the rent then follows the consumer price index, as the index-linked rent page explains. Saxony's ordinance covering both cities is on the rent brake in Saxony page.