Building a house or buying property

Residence registration

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

Residence Registration as secondary residence

If you move into an apartment that you do not primarily use, you must register it as a secondary residence.

Residence Registration as a main residence

If you move into an apartment, you must register. You do not need to deregister with the registration office in whose area of responsibility the previous apartment was located.

House number fixing

Information about house numbering

Certificate of identity for parcels of land Issue

What is a certificate of identity for parcels of land and what is it used for?

List of building encumbrances Information

If there is a legitimate interest, the list of building loads can be inspected.

Preliminary building permit

With a preliminary decision, individual questions about planned building projects can be clarified with the lower building supervisory authority before a building permit procedure begins.

Issue of preliminary building permit

With a preliminary decision, individual questions about planned building projects can be clarified with the lower building supervisory authority before a building permit procedure begins.

Partial building permit

If a partial building permit is granted, construction work on individual components can begin before the entire building permit procedure has been completed.

Construction of installations Partial approval

If a partial building permit is granted, construction work on individual components can be started before the completion of the entire building permit procedure.

Construction Project Advance Notice

The start of construction of a construction project requiring approval must be reported to the lower building supervisory authority 1 week in advance.

Building project acceptance

If the building supervisory authority has reserved the right to approve construction work, construction work may only begin after the building inspection.

Building permit

Information on the building permit procedure

Building permit status query

Electronic status information is available under the keyword "Building online".

Building permit issued in the simplified building permit procedure

In development plan areas, the simplified building permit procedure can be selected for residential buildings.

Official city maps

Maps for interested parties

Digital City Base Map

What is a digital city map for?

Garden water meters

A garden water meter helps to determine the amount of water that does not flow into the public sewage network.

Channel plans

The municipal sewer plan shows the location and height of the lines already laid.

Allotment garden lease

Who do I have to contact if I want to lease a municipal allotment?

Agricultural lease matters and graveland

How can I lease an allotment?

Certificate of first refusal

Under what circumstances does the municipality have a right of first refusal for land?

Rainwater infiltration

Approval of stormwater infiltration installations

Apply for a certificate of completion in accordance with the Condominium Act

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

Residents' certificate Issue

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.

Development contribution

Development charge collection

The municipalities levy development charges for the initial construction of development facilities (in particular for the roads intended for construction) from the owners of the properties that are developed by the development facility.

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.

Monument Protection Award

Does the municipality offer prizes for monument conservation achievements?

Rental housing with occupancy commitment Promotion

Developers can apply for subsidies for the construction of rental housing with rent and occupancy restrictions (so-called social housing) as part of the social housing promotion program of the state of Brandenburg.

Explosive ordnance inspection

The examination of a property for explosive ordnance is carried out on request by the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Service at the Central Police Service of the State of Brandenburg (KMBD)

Explosive ordnance contamination test

The inspection of a property for explosive ordnance contamination is carried out at the request of the explosive ordnance disposal service at the Central Service of the Police of the State of Brandenburg (KMBD)

Real estate transfer tax assessment

If you carry out a legal transaction relating to a domestic property, this is subject to real estate transfer tax.

Offsetting and reimbursement of deductions for construction work

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

Tax deduction for construction services provided in Germany

You provide a construction service in Germany to another entrepreneur or to a legal entity under public law and they have to deduct construction withholding tax from the consideration? Then you can apply for exemption from the tax obligation.

Expert opinion on the market value (market value) of developed and undeveloped properties

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.

Requesting a market value appraisal of the value of a property or the right to a property

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.

Removal of monuments permit

You want to remove a monument completely or partially?

Change of use of monuments Approval

Are you planning to change the previous use of your monument in order to make better use of it?

Relocation of monuments Approval

For the relocation of monuments, you need a permit from the lower monument protection authority.

Measures in the vicinity of monuments Approval

For planned measures or changes in the vicinity of monuments, you regularly need a permit from the lower monument protection authority.

Permission to carry out measures on monuments

If you are planning measures or changes to monuments, you need a permit from the responsible monument protection authority.

Grant inspection of property cadastre

Information on the property map and parcels can be accessed online via the BRANDENBURGVIEWER.

Registering a beneficiary to correct the land register

Registration of a beneficiary to correct the land register

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.

Entry in the land register

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

Granting access to the land register

The land register provides information about the legal circumstances of a property. You can inspect the land register under certain conditions.

Notation of property ownership rights in the land register

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).

Writing a property in the land register

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

Property in the land register Derecognition

Each plot of land is shown in the land register in a special place on a separate land register page. As a rule, land is subject to compulsory entry in the land register. Certain plots of land are exempt from this obligation.

Property in the land register Expropriation

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

Have the land register closed

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

Have a land register created

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

Have a partial ownership land register created

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

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.

Registration of a compulsory mortgage

If you have a monetary claim from a judgment or other enforceable title, you can also enforce against the debtor's or the debtor's property (e.g. real estate).

Encumbrances and restrictions in the land register Deletion

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.

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.

Apply for the construction of a footpath crossing

You must submit a written application to the responsible road construction authority (municipality/district/state) for the construction of the property access road.

Granting of building authority approval

In the case of federal and state building projects, the approval of the supreme building supervisory authority may be required in individual cases.

Applying for a merger of parcels

Would you like to combine several contiguous parcels into one new parcel? This fusion ensures a clear presentation of your real estate.

Parcel merging with local survey

A subdivision survey must be carried out if part of a property is to become a separate property.

Carry out land surveying

A land survey is carried out on request or, in special cases, ex officio.

Applications for boundary determination and boundary restoration are made if, for example, there are uncertainties about the course of property boundaries.

Request information about the monument

You can obtain information from the official monument lists, the monument database and the geoportal of the responsible authority and, if necessary, request further information there.

Entry of a monument in the list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg

Monument registration and thus the determination of the monument status of an object forms the indispensable basis for the work and preservation of a monument.

Apply for the determination of monument status

You can have the monument status of your registered monument determined by administrative act.

Financial support for the restoration of monuments

You can apply for state funding for the protection, preservation and restoration of monuments.

Request access to a monument file

If you would like to have access to the monument file, you can apply to the competent authority.

Request access to files / information on architectural and artistic monuments

Information about the possible value of the monument can be obtained from the competent authority.

Request inspection of files / information on ground monuments

Property owners and other authorized persons can request information on known ground monuments on the properties in question.

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.

Earth excavation Notification of receipt of 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.

Conditions and obligations relating to the purchase and sale of real estate

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

List of monuments (list of immovable aKD) Notification of change of ownership Acceptance

Notification of change of ownership of an immovable cultural monument

Notification of a cultural monument (find report) Acceptance

Finds are objects, groups of objects, parts or traces of objects that can be assumed to be monuments. Their discovery must be reported immediately to the monument protection...

Notification of water supply systems and non-drinking water systems Acceptance