A town in eastern Germany is offering two weeks free accommodation to encourage people to relocate there in a bid to boost ...

The solution? Sometimes, a place like The Commons at East Berlin, a 40-unit apartment complex for people 55 years and older on the site of a former supermarket, Nell’s. The property had been ...

The five buildings, each with five stories, were built in 1984 in what was then East Berlin. They host around a hundred apartments intended initially for workers at the nearby Charité hospital.