Methodology

Data source

All prices and rents are asking data: we analyse publicly listed flats for sale and for rent and recalculate the figures every day. Asking prices are not notarised sale prices and not a valuation under § 194 BauGB; the sale price is negotiated and can differ. Our rents are asking rents for new lettings, not a municipality's official Mietspiegel.

Metrics

Price and rent per m²

The median of all matching listings; the range shows the 25th to 75th percentile.

Gross rental yield

Annual cold rent divided by the purchase price, from the medians per m².

Price multiple

Purchase price divided by the annual cold rent.

Days on market

The median listing duration of completed listings.

Price cuts

The share of listings whose price was reduced while listed.

When an area gets a page

A handful of listings does not give reliable figures, so an area gets its own page only above a minimum number of listings; smaller areas appear as a row on their parent page, and their addresses lead there.

1. at least10Rent prices for a postal codeRental listings in the postal code.
2. at least30Rent prices for a cityRental listings across the city, or 2 postal codes with their own page.
3. at least50Property prices for a cityListings for sale, among the 100 cities with the most listings.
4. at least50Property prices for a districtListings for sale, in the 5 cities with the most listings.
5. at least50Rental yield rankingListings for sale for a place in the nationwide ranking, 30 in a state's ranking.
6. at least5A state's rankingCities for the state to get a page of its own.

Once published, a page stays until its listings fall below 70% of the threshold, so pages do not appear and disappear day by day.

Assumptions in the examples

The closing-cost and financing examples on the market pages use the same defaults as our analysis.

Notary

1.0%

Land registry

0.5%

Broker

3.57%

Down payment

20%

Interest

3.5%

Term

30 years

The down payment is a share of the price, and the loan is an annuity loan. Property transfer tax follows each state's law (table below). Hausgeld, maintenance, vacancy and taxes are not included. The examples are not investment advice.

Property transfer tax by state

The rate under each state's law, from highest to lowest.

1. Brandenburg6.5%
2. North Rhine-Westphalia6.5%
3. Saarland6.5%
4. Schleswig-Holstein6.5%
5. Berlin6.0%
6. Hesse6.0%
7. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania6.0%
8. Bremen5.5%
9. Hamburg5.5%
10. Saxony5.5%
11. Baden-Württemberg5.0%
12. Lower Saxony5.0%
13. Rhineland-Palatinate5.0%
14. Saxony-Anhalt5.0%
15. Thuringia5.0%
16. Bavaria3.5%

Updates and corrections

Market data is recalculated daily, and every page shows the date of its data. If you find an error, write to us through the help page. We correct documented errors and note the date of the change.