Building a house or buying property

Whether you are looking at a new-build, buying an existing property or renovating, there are lots of things to bear in mind when building or buying a property. What support is available from state assistance programmes? Find out about grants and tax incentives. Maybe you can make a dream of owning your own home come true.

Services in Building a house or buying property

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Adopt path and watercourse plan with accompanying landscape conservation plan in accordance with FlurbG
In order to pursue integrated, sustainable rural land management and improve the competitiveness of agriculture, land use conflicts must be resolved, land must be reorganized and development measures must be implemented.
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Anyone has the right to inspect the project and development plan.
The project and development plan can be inspected by anyone.
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Apply for a certificate for the tax office to apply for tax relief for measures for the preservation or appropriate use of monuments
For cultural monuments, complete buildings and buildings within monument zones, you can apply for a certificate of measures carried out for the preservation or appropriate use of the monument or building and their costs.
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Apply for a certificate of completion
Do you want to have ownership shares entered in the land register? Then you need a certificate of completion.
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Apply for a housing construction premium
Since 2021, the housing construction premium has amounted to 10 percent of expenditure to promote housing construction up to a maximum amount of 700 euros for single people and...
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Apply for a residents' certificate
If you would like to purchase a plot of land, you can find out which municipal charges based on federal law are associated with this plot of land by applying to the relevant municipality for a residents' certificate.
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Apply for child building benefit
If you buy or build residential property for your family for your own use, you can apply for a building allowance under certain conditions.
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Apply for subsidies for owner-occupied residential property
The state of Rhineland-Palatinate offers households a range of assistance programs for owner-occupied housing as part of its social housing assistance program. The state supports...
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Apply for type testing
Type tests are useful if a static structure of the same design is to be erected or used at several locations. The particular advantage of a type test is that the submitted stability verifications are only checked once.
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Apply to close your housing subsidy account
If you have a home subsidy account, you can save tax through single taxation.
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Applying for a cultural property certificate for tax advantages for production and conservation measures
For cultural goods 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.
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Applying for a permit for special use
You can also use public roads and paths for purposes other than traffic and public use. To do so, you generally require a special use permit.
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Applying for an exemption from a change ban to safeguard urban land-use planning
Are you planning a 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.
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Applying for exemption from railroad operating purposes for a property on which federal railroad operating facilities are located
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.
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Applying for permission to divide a property
If you want to divide your property, you must apply for permission from the relevant authority in advance,
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Boundary determination
Together with the land register, the real estate cadastre ensures the security of ownership of the land and gives it marketability and creditworthiness. If a boundary is unclear...
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Building authority approval Issuing
Are there special regulations for the approval of federal and state construction projects?
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Buying state-owned land and real estate
Would you like to purchase a plot of land or property? Then you must submit a maximum bid for your purchase project to the Landesbetrieb Liegenschafts- und Baubetreuung (Landesbetrieb LBB).
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Deleting encumbrances and restrictions in the land register
The deletion of encumbrances or restrictions (e.g. easement, usufruct) in the land register is possible if the beneficiary waives the exercise of the right.
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Deletion of a building encumbrance from the building encumbrance register
Would you like to have a building encumbrance deleted from the register of building encumbrances? Then you must apply to the competent authority.
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Deregister property in the land register
Each property is shown in a special place in the land register on its own land register page. In principle, land plots must be entered in the land register. Certain properties are exempt from this obligation.
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Determine the monumental characteristics of a building
The determination of a building's status as a monument forms the indispensable basis for the work of monument preservation. Various recording methods are used for this purpose, the depth of which depends on their respective purpose.
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Determine the tax consequences after entering the payout phase of your pension plan
When payment of your pension plan begins, the Central Allowance Office for Pension Fund Assets (ZfA) will determine the balance of your home subsidy account, the reduction amount and, if applicable, the liquidation amount and notify the relevant tax office of these amounts.
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Development plan
Would you like to build on a plot of land? Then find out from your local authority before you start building whether building regulations according to the development plan must be observed.
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Display of drinking water systems and domestic wells
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Draw up a land use plan
The municipalities decide on the preparation of land use plans as part of their municipal planning sovereignty.
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Earth excavation - report unintentional groundwater development
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.
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Earth excavation - report work with a direct or indirect impact on groundwater
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.
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Energy certificate
The energy performance certificate evaluates the energy efficiency of houses and apartments and gives you a rough estimate of future energy costs and makes energy requirements comparable.
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Entry in the land register
Registration of ownership of a property or encumbrances and restrictions on a property
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Exercising the municipality's right of first refusal
The municipal right of first refusal enables the municipality to acquire land for urban development purposes in order to influence its future structural and other use.
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Expropriation of a property
Expropriation is a form of state seizure of land or rights to land.
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Give advance notice of the establishment of a construction site
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.
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Granting access to the land register
The land register provides information about the legal status of a property. You can inspect the land register under certain conditions.
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Have a land register created
Condominium ownership is the ownership of an apartment in conjunction with the co-ownership share in the common property.
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Have a partial ownership land register created
Partial ownership is the ownership of rooms in a building that are not used for residential purposes in connection with the co-ownership share in the common property.
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Have the entry of the hereditary building owner corrected
You can apply to have the hereditary building land register corrected if there is an inaccuracy in the land register.
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Have the land register closed
You can have land registers closed again if all condominium ownership rights have been united in your person.
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Have the partial ownership land register closed
You can have part-ownership land registers closed again if all part-ownership rights have been united in your person.
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House number assignment
House numbers are assigned on the basis of building applications, notifications of construction measures or at the request of the owners by the independent municipalities,...
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Housing Promotion of rental housing
If you save money to buy, build or renovate a residential property, this can be encouraged with the housing premium under certain conditions. The premium is credited to the home savings account in addition to the annual savings amount.
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Housing promotion: Applying for funding for rental housing with occupancy commitment
The state of Rhineland-Palatinate offers a social rental housing subsidy to support households in the state that are dependent on public assistance in providing adequate housing....
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Housing promotion: Promoting housing construction Acquisition of cooperative shares
The state of Rhineland-Palatinate offers households assistance with the creation of owner-occupied housing as part of its social housing promotion program. The state supports...
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Housing promotion: rental housing with occupancy commitment
Rental housing with occupancy and rent restrictions is referred to as social rental housing and is subject to rent and occupancy restrictions. Socially rented apartments are onl...
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Inspecting a land use plan
You have the right to inspect a land use plan.
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Land Sale Request Permit
Would you like to transfer land used for agriculture and/or forestry or moorland and wasteland to a third party in a legally binding manner? Then you need to apply for a permit to do so.
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Land value Determination
If you need the market value of your property, you can apply for a market value report from the relevant land value expert committee.
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List of monuments Request inclusion
Monument registration and thus the determination of the monument status of a building forms the indispensable basis for the work and preservation of a cultural monument.
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Monument preservation
Preserving our cultural heritage as part of history is a task for the state.
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Nature conservation: compensation and replacement measures
The aim of nature conservation is to preserve nature and the landscape on the basis of their intrinsic value and as the basis of human life. As the impairment or even destructio...
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Notation of property ownership rights in the land register
If you as the property owner have rights to another property (servient property) (e.g. a right of emergency access), you can have this noted in the land register of your property (dominant property).
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Parcel merger
Two adjacent parcels of land can be merged with each other, for example to save surveying costs for future surveys.
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Pay development charge
The municipalities levy development charges for the initial construction of development facilities (in particular for roads intended for construction) from the owners of the properties that are developed by the development facility.
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Paying real estate transfer tax
Do you want to buy a property? Then you must also include the land transfer tax in your financing.
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Place of residence - registration of the sole or main residence
You must register your main residence with the relevant registration office.
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Preliminary building permit / preliminary building application
If your (building) project deviates from building regulations, you must apply for approval of the deviation. This also applies to deviations from regulations that are not examined in the building permit procedure.
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Property tax assessed value Declaration and notification obligations
This entry provides you with more detailed information on your declaration/notification obligations in connection with the determination of the assessed value/property tax value.
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Property tax assessment amount Notification obligations
This entry provides you with more detailed information on your notification obligations in connection with the determination of the property tax assessment amount.
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Property tax unit value or property tax value determination
This entry provides you with more detailed information on determining the assessed value/property tax value.
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Real estate cadastre
Together with the land register, the real estate cadastre ensures the security of ownership of the land and gives it marketability and creditworthiness. It consists of the real...
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Receive information on the land use plan
Information on the land use plan can be requested.
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Receive information on the list of monuments
One of the central tasks of the Monument Authority / Directorate of State Monument Preservation is to make the results and findings of the recording and research of cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate accessible to the public.
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Register residence
If you move into a new home, you must register in person with the registration office responsible for you at your new place of residence within two weeks of moving in.
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Registering a beneficiary to correct the land register
Registering a beneficiary to correct the land register
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Registering a secondary residence
Do you live in several apartments in Germany? Then you must also register your secondary residence with the registration office.
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Registering heritable building rights to several properties or heritable building rights
The heritable building right is the right to erect a building on land belonging to someone else, usually in return for payment of a so-called ground rent.
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Registration of a compulsory mortgage
If you have a monetary claim from a judgment or another enforceable title, you can also enforce against the debtor's property (e.g. land).
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Request a review of the Riester subsidy to be repaid after termination of the Riester contract
You can apply for the repayment amount to be fixed after termination of the Riester contract.
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Request information on the status of the housing subsidy account
To find out the current status of your housing subsidy account, you can apply to have it determined.
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Requesting a market value appraisal of the value of a plot of land or the right to a plot of land
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.
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Requesting access to the register of building encumbrances
What do I have to bear in mind if I want to inspect the register of building encumbrances or obtain information from it?
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Requesting information on the standard land values
Standard land values serve to ensure transparency on the property market. As average land values, they apply to a number of properties for which the usage and value conditions ar...
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Show usage recording
Has your building been completed and should it be used accordingly? Then you must report the building as completed and can use it after one week at the earliest.
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Specialization
Together with the land register, the real estate cadastre ensures the security of ownership of the land and gives it marketability and creditworthiness. In exceptional cases, th...
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Submit a declaration of division
The declaration of division is a declaration by the property owner to the Land Registry that the ownership of a property is divided into co-ownership shares. Special rights of us...
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Submitting a declaration of commitment to assume a building obligation
Would you like to have a building encumbrance entered in the register of building encumbrances? Then you must apply to the relevant authority.
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Tax deduction for construction services Apply for exemption
Here you can find out how you can be exempted from the construction withholding tax.
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Tax deduction for construction services Offsetting
Here you can find out how the construction withholding tax is offset against your taxes.
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Type testing - approving construction projects in several places
Type tests are useful if a static structure of the same design is to be erected or used at several locations. The particular advantage of a type test is that the submitted stability verifications are only checked once.
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Urban land-use planning
Urban land-use plans are the land-use plan (preparatory urban land-use plan) and the development plan (binding urban land-use plan). The planning authority for the development...
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Writing a property in the land register
You own several properties and would like them to be entered in the land register as a single property.
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Tax consequences of giving up the owner-occupation of your subsidized apartment
If you give up your residential property or no longer use the tax-subsidized property yourself, your housing subsidy account will be closed and you will have to pay tax on the resulting liquidation amount.
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