Helping your kids buy a home in Germany: When is this a good idea?

Young adults often struggle with too little equity when trying to buy property in Germany. Learn what options parents have to help.
Published on Dec 13, 2022
Helping your kids buy a home in Germany: When is this a good idea?

Category First Time Buyers

Written by Dr. Chris Mulder

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As a parent, you care about your children and want to help them with money, but you also have to weigh your own future. Will you have enough in retirement? Many of us then fall into the traditional solution of providing the children an inheritance upon our death. But with our life expectancy rapidly approaching 90 years or more, does it make sense to provide our children with a (large) inheritance when they are already in their fifties or sixties? Are there no better alternatives?