Is 900€ for a room "too much" for a room in Pberg?

three years and this is the first offer, that's your answer right there. 900 is a lot but the market's not going back to what your boyfriend paid, especially not for a place near bernauer strasse with two bathrooms. the balcony alone is worth something in summer, you'll be glad for it when mauerpark gets too crowded.

the religious community thing is the real factor honestly. being able to walk there instead of taking the ringbahn from marzahn will change your whole week. take it, you can always downgrade later if you find something but you can't force an offer to appear

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900 for a room near Bernauer Strasse is basically the going rate now for a place that nice. The WG-gesucht prices you see for 500-600 are usually either scams or someone's friend who's moving out and they need to find a replacement fast.

The two bathrooms thing is actually huge for a WG. I've lived in three different shared apartments in Prenzlberg and the single bathroom situation gets old fast, especially in the morning. Your boyfriend's Wilmersdorf deal is from before the rent explosion, that comparison doesn't really work.

If you've been trying for three years and this is the first solid offer, you have your answer. The religious community proximity is the kind of thing that makes a neighborhood actually work for you, not just look good on paper. Take it and you can always keep an eye out for something cheaper once you're settled in the area.

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Your boyfriend's rent in Wilmersdorf is from a different era of Berlin contracts. A new rental in Prenzlberg now is basically a different market entirely. 900 for a room near Bernauer Strasse, especially with two bathrooms and a balcony, is not a scam price.

I'd look at it this way. You've spent three years trying to get into this area and this is the first offer. The commute from Marzahn to wherever your religious community meets is probably eating up your time and energy in a way that's hard to quantify. Living alone in student housing is nice but being isolated is its own cost.

Take the room. You can always move again in a year if you find something better, but having a foothold in the neighborhood will make that search a hundred times easier. You'll be able to walk to viewings and hear about openings through your community rather than fighting on WG-gesucht from Marzahn.

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Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.

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if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point

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honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.

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