Comission-free real estate directly from the owner in Krefeld

A pleasant alternative to expensive Düsseldorf: Krefeld, a city on the Lower Rhine with a great past

"Velvet and silk city" - this is the nickname of the large city of Krefeld in North Rhine-Westphalia. Formerly an important location for the textile industry, especially for the production of silk fabrics, the city can still score points today with many buildings worth seeing and cultural highlights that date back to this heyday. Today, Krefeld, located on the Lower Rhine between the metropolises of Düsseldorf and Duisburg, has over 220,000 inhabitants. The city scores above all with its high recreational value. The spacious city forest, various parks, the Krefeld Zoo, the Botanical Garden, Lake Elfrath and many other green spaces form popular local recreation areas and make Krefeld, according to its own statement, the second greenest city in Germany. The city on the Lower Rhine also has a lot to offer in terms of cultural life: Here, the German Textile Museum brings Krefeld's past as a center of the textile industry to life, the Kulturfabrik Krefeld offers concerts, exhibitions, theater and much more, and Burg Linn, a moated castle five kilometers from the city center, is home to an entire museum center with historical and archaeological exhibitions.

Capital of German Tie Production

Krefeld is also more than conveniently located in terms of transportation. It takes less than half an hour by car to reach the larger neighboring cities of Düsseldorf and Duisburg. Düsseldorf International Airport is only 20 kilometers away, and numerous regional trains stop at Krefeld's seven train stations. The city's economic life is characterized by the chemical, metal, mechanical engineering and vehicle construction industries, especially in the so-called Krefeld CHEMPARK, an association of independent companies that mainly produce plastics. Krefeld is also home to ThyssenKrupp Nirosta GmbH, the major cable assembly company CiS ELECTRONIC GmbH and many other large companies. The textile industry has lost much of its former importance for the Lower Rhine city, but it still forms a mainstay of Krefeld's economy - after all, two thirds of all ties produced in Germany still come from here.

Here you can still find them: Brokerage-free real estate offers

Real estate experts rated the housing market in Krefeld as balanced for the municipal Krefeld Housing Market Report 2012, but cold rents are also rising here. According to information from the real estate portal immobilienscout24.de, one pays an average of 6.20 euros per square meter for a rental apartment here - and thus still considerably less than in neighboring Düsseldorf. Condominiums and owner-occupied homes are also much cheaper in Krefeld than in the state capital. So it can be well worth commuting from here to Düsseldorf for work, especially since a much larger proportion of properties here are brokered on a commission-free basis. Even top properties can be obtained in Krefeld without a brokerage fee, if you are lucky. Also the Krefelder landlords and salesmen profit from a switching of their real estate without brokers, because the demand for dwelling is here by far not as strong as in the large metropolises of the Rhine rail. Offers without commission therefore achieve a much larger number of inquiries and interested parties.

Living in Krefeld

Source: immobilienscout24.de, as of March 2014

Development of rental prices for apartments in Krefeld

Source: immowelt.de