Land values 2026: where building land got dearer and where cheaper

Since the previous reference date

The median fell in 7, rose in 15 and stayed the same in 16 of 38 cities.

No comparable value: Rostock, Schwerin, Bremerhaven.

Over five years

The median is higher than five years before in 31, lower in 2 and the same in 1 of 34 cities.

No comparable value: Hamburg, Krefeld, Wiesbaden, Kassel, Darmstadt, Rostock, Schwerin.

Districts with the steepest change

Since the previous reference date, among the districts and boroughs of at least 8 zones: in smaller ones a single zone moves the median.

How we compare

Each city counts its zones of residential building land, ready to build, without the values for the outskirts (Außenbereich); the median is weighted by the zones' area, as on the city pages. For the change we look up, at each zone, the value for the same use on the earlier reference date and compare the medians; a zone without such a value is left out. The Compared column names both dates: some states set their values only every second year. Land values are rounded and stay the same in many zones for years, hence the frequent 0.0%.

The Bodenrichtwert is the average value of land per m² of plot in a zone of similar features. The local valuation board (Gutachterausschuss) derives it from actual sale prices (§ 196 BauGB) and sets it at a reference date. It describes a typical undeveloped plot of the zone, not a particular one.

Source

Data: Bodenrichtwerte Berlin (Gutachterausschuss für Grundstückswerte in Berlin), Geoportal Berlin, reference date 1 January 2026, licence dl-de/zero-2-0 · daten.berlin.de

Data: Bodenrichtwerte Nordrhein-Westfalen (Gutachterausschüsse für Grundstückswerte in NRW, BORIS-NRW), BORIS-NRW, reference date 1 January 2026, licence dl-de/zero-2-0 · open.nrw

Data: Bodenrichtwerte Hamburg, Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Landesbetrieb Geoinformation und Vermessung, reference date 1 January 2026, licence dl-de/by-2-0 · metaver.de

Data: Bodenrichtwerte Hessen (Gutachterausschüsse für Immobilienwerte in Hessen, BORIS Hessen), HVBG, BORIS Hessen, reference date 1 January 2024, licence dl-de/zero-2-0 · www.geoportal.hessen.de

Data: Bodenrichtwerte Niedersachsen (BORIS Niedersachsen), © GDI-NI, reference date 1 January 2026, licence dl-de/by-2-0 · ni-lgln-opengeodata.hub.arcgis.com

Data: Bodenrichtwerte Bremen und Bremerhaven, © GDI-NI, reference date 1 January 2026, licence dl-de/by-2-0 · www.gutachterausschuss.bremen.de

Data: Bodenrichtwerte Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (BORIS.MV), © GeoBasis-DE/M-V 2026, reference date 1 January 2025, licence CC BY 4.0 · www.geoportal-mv.de

Data: Bodenrichtwerte Thüringen (BORIS Thüringen), © GDI-Th, reference date 1 January 2026, licence dl-de/by-2-0 · geomis.geoportal-th.de

Data changed: zones summarized into cities and districts and compared with earlier reference dates. We prepare open data, and errors can creep in. Only the valuation board's own answer is binding. All data sources