Germany has a desperate shortage of affordable housing. "Germany is building far too expensively," said Dietmar Walberg, head of the Kiel-based building research institute Arge, on Thursday in Berlin.

LONDON -- Britain's prime minister said Tuesday there must be a "major national investigation" of potentially flammable cladding on high-rise towers, while a German city evacuated an 11-story building ...

Authorities in Germany are drawing up plans to use metro stations as air raid shelters in response to the growing risk of war with Russia. The Federal Office for Civil Protection is looking at public ...

Germany's federal public buildings are to be barrier-free by 2035 under plans by Labour Minister Bärbel Bas, dpa learnt on Tuesday. Around 13 million people in Germany have a physical impairment, with ...

FRANKFURT, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Building permits for apartments in Germany fell 28% during the first eight months of the year, the statistics office said on Wednesday, underscoring a downturn in demand ...