Sedan Oil and gas heating are still the most common heating systems in Germany. About half of all apartments are heated by natural gas and a quarter by oil. But the huge rise in fossil fuel prices and mounting pressure from politicians are causing many homeowners to rethink.

“Right now there are thousands of restless homeowners who don’t know what to do, whether to replace their old gas or oil heating and, above all, why,” says North Rhine-Westphalia Construction Minister Ina Scharrenbach (CDU ). in the needs of the owners the point.

So how quickly do homeowners have to react? What help is there for a possible exchange? The fifth part of the Handelsblatt series on the energy conversion of real estate provides an overview of the most important questions about the future of gas and oil heating.

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