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• €4,700 in Regensburg leaves you, after tax and a 70 m² flat, what €4,754 would in Berlin.

	17 wins Regensburg Bavaria · Open profile	2 wins Berlin Berlin · Open profile	Add a city
The place
Population	151,517	3,913,644
People per km²	1,874	4,392
Public holidays a yearhigher is better	13	10
Work and pay
Unemploymentlower is better	5.5%	10.4%
Median gross payhigher is better	€4,691	€4,459
Taxes
Grunderwerbsteuerlower is better	3.5%	6%
Church taxlower is better	8%	9%
Gewerbesteuer Hebesatzlower is better	425%	410%
Housingimmoportal.com: Regensburg, Berlin
Asking price per m²lower is better	€4,957	€5,534
Asking rent per m²lower is better	€14.81	€15.21
Prices, last 12 months	+1.7%	-1%
Asking rent per m² (BBSR)lower is better	€12	€17
Rent in existing tenancies per m²lower is better	€9.38	€7.67
Vacant flatshigher is better	2.9%	2%
Owner-occupiers	23.1%	16.4%
Paid price per m², resold flatslower is better	€4,100	€6,450
Paid price per m², new flatslower is better	€7,300	€8,108
A 70 m² flat, to buylower is better	€346,990	€387,380
Closing costs on itlower is better	€30,605	€43,851
With this salaryBetween cities the net changes only through the state: church tax (8% in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, 9% elsewhere, members only) and Saxony's higher employee share of care insurance. Wage tax and the other contributions are federal, so what differs here is mostly the rent.
Net payhigher is better	€2,976	€2,976
A 70 m² flat, cold rentlower is better	€1,037	€1,065
Left after renthigher is better	€1,939	€1,911
Rent as a share of netlower is better	34.8%	35.8%
Years of net to buy that flatlower is better	10.6	12.1
Gross that leaves the same as the first city	€4,700	€4,754