Femern employees who need a place to live while working on the huge construction project can go to the housing rental portal Femern Housing and check out available rental properties in the area.
However, the number of rental properties on the portal has for the time being peaked.
At the time of writing, there are 17 ads for private houses and apartments for rent.
– When we had the most, we had about 50 postings, says Patrick Jarosczinsky, senior advisor at Femern Belt Development, who is responsible for the portal femen-housing.com.
Throughout most of 2021 and until the summer of 2022, there have been many rental properties on the portal.
A contact stock exchange
We set up Fehmarn Housing because there were many people who had a vacant house who took hold of us when Fehmarn workers started coming to Lolland. We are a development company, and because we are close to consortia and subcontractors, we have tried to help both sides, both those who rent and those who are looking for housing, explains Patrick Jarosczinsky.
Why there aren’t so many rental properties right now, he can only guess.
It is a contact stock exchange between landlords and tenants, and we get no feedback. So if the ad disappears, we don’t know whether it is because the house has been rented out or it has been sold, he says.
Wants to avoid bottleneck
However, Fehmarn Belt Development would like to have more rental properties on the portal if the need is there.
If there is a need to intermediate more housing, we would like to. If the portal is no longer needed, then it is not a business for us, but a service we provide to avoid a bottleneck arising where people who get work on the project but who do not want to live in a tunnel city, cannot find a place to live, explains Patrick Jarosczinsky.
Mainly aimed at White Collar
And precisely those employees on the Fehmarn project who do not want to live in a larger housing complex are probably in reality the ones who find the greatest interest in the rental portal of houses and apartments.
There is a big difference in the customer group. There are those who build on the construction site itself, and then there are the white collar workers, and they may not want to live in large housing complexes, and it is probably more those who we can help put them together with private landlords who have a nice little house in the area, says Patrick Jarosczinsky.
Maribo is attractive
On the portal there are rental properties from all over Lolland-Falster up to Vordingborg in South Zealand. However, the vast majority of homes are in the area around Rødbyhavn, Holeby and Maribo.
Most people want to live close to the construction site. We also have some who have moved to Maribo because of the International School. It is attractive for those who come with families and small children that there is a growing international community, concludes Patrick Jarosczinsky. On the portal, there are currently three warehouses for commercial purposes ready for rental.
