Apartments for Rent in Berlin

Rent and currency, what that rent covers, floor area, rooms and bedrooms, story, lift, parking, furnished or not, entry dates, minimum stay: such is what a listing sets down without anyone writing.

The map on a listing shows a five-hundred-meter circle around the home, never an exact point: Quoloc does not publish the address, and only the person advertising can choose to give it in the exchange. A Street View tab shows the street where coverage exists.

The area mentioned points sometimes to one of the twelve boroughs, sometimes to a quarter it holds. On the map the home appears inside a circle, and the exact address waits for an exchange to open.

Small floor areas and family homes stand together in one list, at prices per square meter with no relation. A sort on bedroom count untangles them.

Two listings advertised at one amount may cover different things, and the listing alone says which. Reading it first is what keeps a viewing from being wasted.

Floor area and bedroom count do not advance at the same pace: the listing gives both, and with Quoloc Plus, the list also filters on the number of bedrooms, which keeps out a large studio where a two-bedroom was meant.

Reframing the map on one borough amounts to comparing it with the previous one, every other setting unchanged.

Nothing comes between the city and the state in Berlin, and the reason holds in one sentence: the city tier and the state tier coincide in Berlin, where one and the same assembly legislates for both, with no separate city council of its own.

The assembly in question is the one of the federal state: Berlin also counts among the states of Germany, and its Abgeordnetenhaus is their parliament: its members, at least one hundred and thirty of them, are elected by direct proportional ballot, choose the Governing Mayor and check the Senate of Berlin.

Below it a tier genuinely governs. The city is made up of twelve boroughs, subdivided into ninety-seven officially recognized quarters, and each borough's assembly is directly elected by its own population, which makes it a borough parliament: it appoints a borough mayor at the head of an executive of five councillors. And at federal level publishes Bundesministerium für Wohnen, Stadtentwicklung und Bauwesen, the German federal ministry responsible for housing, urban development and building, at the address bmwsb.bund.de.

Each listing states what its rent covers, and two neighboring listings rarely state the same thing. Nothing enters it of its own accord.

Parking is ticked or it is not, and absence weighs more than presence in the tightly built boroughs.

Every listing carries a public comment thread. A reply cannot itself receive a reply: the thread stays one level deep.

Questions that keep returning in a thread end up reaching the text of the listings.

Exchanges happen in the site's messaging. You can write from the moment you register, without the other person having to allow anything: a published listing and a published profile are both contactable. Messages stay grouped and the history remains available.

Every listing and every profile carries a report button, and a report keeps its state until it is closed. A person can also be blocked, and the block runs both ways: the person blocked receives no notification and simply can no longer write to whoever blocked them, or comment on their listings or profile.