Finding an accomodation in Shanghai

Well, same procedure as last year....still three months to go until my trip back to Shanghai. Time enough to get an appropriate accomodation hmmm?!

Generally speaking if you have plenty of time and perhaps if you searching directly from Shanghai, you might get enough rental offers.
A bunch of compunds have been built in recent years which illustrates the over capacity in room offers. And you do not have to be economist to realize that this over capacity tend to decrease the monthly rental fee.

However, this might be theory. In real terms, yes, it should be no problem to get a place to live. You just need to be patient. A good way to look for a room is to screen all rental offers listed on schanghai.com (for German speaking people highly recommended). That's where I found my last stay in summer 2005.

Currently I am still in contact with my friends living in Shanghai and who I met last year. However it's still better to choose from more options. So let's hope that I will find a nice place for my stay this summer.