Home builders and newcomers to condominium buyers tend to feel lucky.

Accordingly, whoever buys a property usually lets the corks pop.

The right property has been found, the financing is in place, and a foam drink on top!

After all, buying a home will be a dream come true for most.

Regardless of whether it is a tailor-made architect's house, prefabricated house, penthouse or just a 3-room kitchen-bathroom on 70 square meters including a mini balcony, you have to be able to afford one and the other, even if the interest rates are still low.

Especially since the offer is not abundant in many places, especially not in the big city.

Birgit Ochs

Responsible editor for "Wohnen" of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.

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So the buyers have reason to smile, and because we are in the selfie age, the camera is held up to the smiling face in order to then share the snapshot of the conclusion of the contract with mom, dad, aunt Anni and friend Max.

If not with the whole world via Instagram, tagged with #hauskauf, #firsttimehomebuyer, #newhome or something like that.

Hamburg, Paris, Sydney?

Are you kidding me? Are you serious when you say that!

There are millions of photos on Instagram that show what happy property buyers and builders look like from all parts of the world. You might think that those who shop in one of the most beautiful cities in the world look particularly happy. In Hamburg, for example. Or in Paris. Or Sydney, that's supposed to be great too. Are you kidding me? Are you serious when you say that. From a human standpoint, it may look like it, but not when Artificial Intelligence (AI) analyzes the photos. You can't be fooled.

The British mortgage advisor, simply called Online Mortgage Advisor, used a facial recognition tool to examine more than 300,000 geotagged photos to identify the locations with the happiest property buyers. Lo and behold, the top positions in the global top 20 ranking go to Barcelona, ​​Florence and the South Korean Ulsan. Interestingly, Islamabad came in seventh in Pakistan. In contrast, our pearl on the Alster as well as the city of love and Sydney only made it to one outstanding position on the negative list. As the? According to AI analysis, on the other hand, two other major German cities are true buyers' lucky places, not only in a national comparison: Berlin and Frankfurt.

One thinks that it is now almost impossible to find anything in both cities.

Perhaps that is precisely why the mood is particularly good.

But whether the radiant men and women know that at least the prices in Frankfurt are ahead of the rents?

Maybe they are so happy because they don't care.

Well then cheers!