Hanover rent index: count the points, apply the limits
In Hanover, fitting points decide where you sit in the range; the limits come from Lower Saxony’s ordinance.
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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 31 December 2029 |
| 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 calculateThe 2025 rent index for the city of Hanover (Mietspiegel Hannover) is a qualified index drawn up by the Hanover Region with the city and a rent index commission of tenant and landlord associations; a Hamburg institute ran the survey and analysis, with 1 April 2025 as the reference date. It has applied since the city council recognised it on 18 December 2025, replacing the 2023 index. It is built as a table by construction period, four size bands and two locations, normal and good, with a mean and a range. Where a flat sits within the range follows from fitting points you award for features such as bathroom, kitchen, windows or balcony. Because the city's web portal only allows its information to be reproduced by arrangement, this calculator takes no Hanover figures. Hanover is in Lower Saxony's tenant-protection ordinance: rent brake until 31 December 2029 and a 15 per cent cap.
A table plus points
The Hanover index combines two steps. First you find the field: construction period, size band and location give a mean and a range. Then you count fitting points for your flat's features, and the score decides where in the range your reference rent lies. That way flats of the same age and size but very different fittings can be told apart. The index states no end date; as a qualified index it must be adjusted after two years.
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Edition | Mietspiegel 2025 Landeshauptstadt Hannover (qualifizierter Mietspiegel gemäß § 558d BGB) |
| Type | qualified, Section 558d BGB |
| Valid from | 18 December 2025 |
| Valid until | not stated |
| Publisher | Region Hannover, Fachbereich Soziales, in Kooperation mit der Landeshauptstadt Hannover, Fachbereich Planen und Stadtentwicklung, und der Mietspiegelkommission |
| Figures on this site | none: rights are reserved |
| Rent brake | yes, until 31 December 2029 |
| Increase cap | 15 % until 31 December 2029 |
Calculating with the Hanover figure
The brochure is on the City of Hanover rent index page. Enter the reference rent you work out above. For a rent increase the rent check applies Lower Saxony's cap: with a current rent of €516, at most €593.40 is lawful; a letter received on 14 October 2026 must be answered by 31 December 2026.
Lower Saxony has listed 57 municipalities and joint municipalities in its ordinance, from Hanover to Göttingen and the islands; the list is on the rent brake in Lower Saxony page.