<div>UPDATE 1-Berlin's ballooning rents to be frozen for five years</div> <!-- no image --> <div>Berlin's city government on Tuesday decided to freeze rents for five years, heeding residents' complaints that their once famously affordable city was pricing them out.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=81x6Pn3GNf8:3kbGsj3_IRg:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=81x6Pn3GNf8:3kbGsj3_IRg:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?i=81x6Pn3GNf8:3kbGsj3_IRg:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=81x6Pn3GNf8:3kbGsj3_IRg:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?i=81x6Pn3GNf8:3kbGsj3_IRg:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/UKBankingFinancial/~4/81x6Pn3GNf8" height="1" width="1" alt=""></div> Posted by Reuters