By Sarah FirsheinBy Yahoo! Singapore – Tue, Jul 24, 2012
Hey, Mayor Bloomberg, you
and your new NYC "micro houses" (and other similarly sized 250- to
300-square-foot mansions) can step aside: There now exists in the world a
house that measures one square meter. The aptly named One-Sqm-House was
designed and conceived by Berlin-based architect Van Bo Le-Mentzel as a
place where "no one other than I, myself, can decide what happens with
this one square meter of mine in the world. It's the only square meter
in the world where I can decide what direction the window looks in, what
direction the door opens in, what neighbors I have."
It is no wonder that Le-Mentzel has become obsessed with the concept
of home: He fled his homeland of Laos as a refugee and has spent his
career exploring the topic. Now, thanks to the BMW Guggenheim Lab, the
young architect, budding furniture designer and tiny-home aficionado can
share his vision with the world. In conjunction with the BMW
Guggenheim, Le-Mentzel invited Berliners to come and help build as many
One-Sqm-Houses as possible, offering to cover the cost of materials for
those who couldn't afford it, so long as they allowed the Lab to rent
them out until the end of July. For those who would like to rent one
out, One-Sqm-House is currently listed on Airbnb for €1 (S$1.52) a
night, but when the experiment closes July 29, the builders can come
back and retrieve their creations.
歐洲多國目前正經歷房地產危機,德國房地產市場卻發展穩定,處於供不應求的狀態。雖然德國房地產房價漲幅不小,德國經濟研究院認為尚無泡沫現象。
2007年底全球金融危機爆發後,西班牙人的購屋需求大減,房價開始下滑,至今已下跌30%左右,但國際貨幣基金(IMF)調查認為,西班牙每平方公尺房價仍比現實高出20%到25%。西班牙現有將近1百萬戶公寓等待買主,要全部消化大約還需要4年。
德國聯邦建築、城市及空間研究學院的一份報告指出,慕尼黑房市一年之間上漲13.6%,上漲率相當於西班牙房市繁榮期,其他大城市的房價也持續走高,德國全國去年的二手屋平均上漲6.8%,新屋漲價率更達9.7%。
不過,德國經濟研究院認為德國房地產房價還未達泡沫的程度。中新社報導,該學院13日發表的分析報告指出,西班牙房地產市場受累於過去幾年的錯誤政策,當時銀行為建
築業大量發放低息貸款,產生虛假榮景。90年代中期開始,西班牙平均工資大幅提高,銀行也放鬆房屋貸款標準,使1997年到2006年間的房價飆升3倍。
另外,西班牙和德國人在居住習慣上存在差異;西班牙人主要以買房為主,而德國人大部分租屋。西班牙房貸利率隨市場波動,金融危機之後,西班牙人大量失業,
家庭收入隨之減少,償還房貸以及繼續貸款面臨困難,而德國的長期房貸利率是固定的,銀行承作房貸時會嚴格審查貸款人的收入以及是否能及時還款。
雖然三分之一的德國人認為,未來兩年間國內也會產生房地產泡沫現象,但德國經濟學院的市場分析家卻認為,德國房市風險較小也很穩定。