The public sector can sell its own land, buildings and objects. You can find out below how to become an owner.

The project and development plan can be inspected by anyone.

For cultural assets worthy of protection, you can apply to the competent certifying authority for a certificate for the tax office on production and conservation measures and their costs.

For buildings in redevelopment areas and urban development areas, you can apply for a certificate of modernization and repair measures carried out to maintain this building and their costs.

You must apply for a certificate of seclusion if you wish to establish a separate property or assert a permanent right of residence.

If you make premium-preferred expenditures to promote housing construction, you can apply for a housing construction premium.

If you save money to buy, build or renovate a residential property, this can be subsidized under certain conditions with the housing construction premium. The premium is credited to the building society account in addition to the annual savings amount.

Would you like to know whether your project is permitted and have not yet submitted a building application? Then you can submit a preliminary building application.

Are you planning a building construction or excavation and backfilling at a distance of less than 40 meters from the freeway? Then you need a special permit under road law.

If you are buying or building residential property for your family for your own use, you can apply for building child benefit under certain conditions.

Each property is shown in the land register in a special place on its own land register sheet. In principle, a booking obligation in the land register applies to real estate. Certain properties are exempt from this booking obligation.

You can apply for an exemption in the event of a change ban to secure urban land-use planning if there are no overriding public interests to the contrary.

You have a residential property that you want to have modernized? Under certain conditions, you will receive a subsidy for this.

Are you planning a construction project near the highway, for example laying cables, radio towers or advertising structures? Even if you do not require a building permit for this project, you must apply for a road permit.

If you have a pecuniary claim from a judgment or other enforceable title, you can also enforce it in the debtor's property (e.B. land).

If you wish to purchase a plot of land, you can find out which municipal levies, based on federal law, are associated with this plot of land by applying to the relevant municipality for a certificate of annexation.

If you want to build, purchase or modernise your own home/apartment, you can claim housing subsidies if the requirements are met. The state in which you want to implement your project is responsible for social housing promotion.

The purpose of the sidewalk crossing is to provide easy access to a property from the street for vehicles. If you are planning a project that requires the curb to be lowered, you will need a permit for the sidewalk crossing.

You must apply for a permit to hold an event on public roads.

You provide a construction work in Germany to another contractor or to a legal entity under public law and they have to pay a construction deduction tax from the consideration? Then you can apply for an exemption from tax liability.

You are planning a building project building project on a plot of land that is currently subject to a change ban to safeguard urban land-use planning? Then you can apply for a special permit if there are no overriding public interests to the contrary.

If you own a railroad property that is no longer used for transportation and whose infrastructure will no longer be used in the long term, you can apply to the Federal Railway Authority (EBA) for exemption of the property under certain conditions.

You are the owner of several plots of land and want them to be entered in the land register as a single plot of land.

You can have partial ownership land registers closed again if all partial ownership rights have been united in your person.

You can have land registers closed again if all condominium rights have united in your person.

This section provides information on the applicable regulations for the purchase and sale of real estate.

As the operator of a water supply system or non-drinking water system, you are obliged to register it.

Have you accidentally discovered groundwater while drilling? Then you must inform the competent authority, regardless of whether you reported the well in advance or not.

Do you want to carry out drilling or other earthworks that could affect the movement or quality of the groundwater? Then you must notify the competent authority in advance.

Registration of ownership of a plot of land or encumbrances and restrictions placed on a plot of land

A negative certificate is required in order to have a property purchase entered in the land register. If there is no pre-emptive right or if the municipality does not exercise it, the municipality will issue you with a certificate upon request (so-called negative notice / negative certificate).

If you need the market value of your property, you can apply for a market value appraisal at the responsible appraisal committee for property values.

Expropriation is a form of state access to land or to rights to the land.

Partial ownership is the ownership of non-residential rooms of a building in conjunction with the co-ownership share of the common property.

Residential property is the ownership of an apartment in conjunction with the co-ownership share of the common property.

You can apply for the correction of the heritable land register if there is a land register inaccuracy.

You have the right to inspect a development plan.

You have the right to inspect a land use plan.

If you, as the owner of the property, have rights to another property (serving property) (e.g. an emergency right of way), you can have this noted in the land register of your property (controlling property).

You can participate in the creation or amendment of a land use plan.

You can participate in the creation or amendment of a development plan.

According to §§ 127 et seq., the municipalities are obliged to levy development contributions for the initial construction of development facilities (in particular for roads intended for cultivation) from the owners of the land developed by the development system.

If you carry out a legal transaction that relates to a domestic property, it is subject to real estate transfer tax.

Anyone moving into an apartment must register with the registration office within two weeks of moving in.

The heritable building right is the right, usually against payment of a so-called heritable building interest, to erect a building on a property that belongs to someone else.

If you move into an apartment, you must register with the registration office within two weeks of moving in.

Registration of a beneficiary to correct the land register

You have provided construction services for a company or a public corporation and construction deduction tax has been withheld on your consideration? Then, under certain conditions, you can apply for a refund of the tax deduction.

The land register informs about the legal situation of a property. Under certain conditions, you can inspect the land register.

If you would like to know the value of an undeveloped or developed plot of land or the value of rights to a plot of land, you can have this determined by an expert committee by means of a market value appraisal.

To find out whether your property is subject to a building charge and, if so, which one, you must apply to the building supervisory authority responsible for your project.

If you are planning a major construction project, you must notify the relevant health and safety authority in advance of setting up your construction site.

You must indicate the use of an installation.