The German property market: a renter's country in numbers
Germany has more apartments to rent than to buy — and around 680,000 active listings spread across ten portals. Here's the lay of the land.
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Germany is the rare large market where more apartments are listed to rent than to buy — a renter’s country by culture and by numbers. Landomo tracks around 680,000 active German listings across ten major portals; here is how that splits, and why one search beats ten.
What is on the market
- ~280,000 houses for sale — the biggest single category.
- ~174,000 apartments to rent — more than apartment sales, unusual among big markets.
- ~80,000 apartments for sale, with a similar volume (~83,000) of commercial space to rent.
- ~30,000 plots of land for sale.
Why one search matters here
German listings are split across a national classifieds giant, dedicated property portals, and thousands of agency sites — often the same flat on several at once. Landomo reads them all, merges duplicates, and lines up Kaltmiete, size and price-per-m² the same way, so you compare like with like instead of relearning each portal’s filters.
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