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What is the housing subsidy?

The housing construction premium is a state benefit to promote housing construction.

It amounts to 10% per year (until 2020: 8.8%) of your expenses for the promotion of housing construction. These are for example

  • Payments into a building savings contract or
  • Expenses for the first purchase of shares in a building and housing cooperative.

The maximum expenditure for the promotion of housing construction is

  • 700 euros (until 2020: 512 euros) if you are single or
  • 1.400 euros (until 2020: 1,024 euros) if you are married or have entered into a civil partnership.

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