You want a home and do not know exactly how to proceed in the search for the right property? In addition, you would like to reduce the purchase costs on the property search and therefore possible to get along without a broker? Interhyp presents valuable tips on how to find your new apartment or dream austin house buyers.
Personal or social networks, portals on the Internet – there are many ways to find a suitable property.
Tip 1: Real estate without brokers – use personal networks
If you know where and what you are looking for, it is always worthwhile talking with friends and acquaintances. Not all potential sellers have already published their offer through brokers or on the net. Sometimes one learns about word-of-mouth information about suitable real estate – without having to pay a broker. Also contacts in the workplace can be helpful. Some companies offer marketplaces on the intranet, for example, for finding accommodation. Even in clubs, members often inform each other about interesting offers, for example about newsletters.
Tip 2: Use social media like Facebook
The social networks offer a wide range. Publish the description of your dream property on your social media profiles. This is how you involve more people in the search with little effort.
Tip 3: Search on real estate portals on the Internet
A first overview of the offers in the desired region offer real estate portals such as
- Immobilienscout24,
- Immonet and
- Immowelt.
There are offers without brokerage commission, but also offers with brokerage costs published. Anyone who only considers real estate without brokers can also search for portals for commission-free real estate for a house or an apartment, for example at ohne-makler. There are also special pages for special objects. For example, you will find new apartments directly from the developer with Neubaukompass .
Tip 4: Distribute the ad in the search area
How to make a random hit: Just tack down pieces of paper in your target area with your contact details and the description of your desired object to surrounding trees or lanterns and distribute them in supermarkets on the bulletin board. That’s how you reach people who are not online-affine. Important: The sheet should definitely be conspicuous, so that your target group does not overlook it.
The purchase prices on the respective real estate market
To get a feel for the prices on the local real estate market, current market data is very helpful – especially if you want to find suitable real estate without brokers. Here are some tips on how to familiarize you with prices inexpensively.
Tip 1: Real Estate Association Germany IVD
A database is owned by the broker association IVD, which publishes a residential price index for about 370 cities every year. The data of some selected cities can be found here.
Tip 2: Expert committees
The so-called expert committees of the respective cities also provide meaningful data. As a rule, there is a land value information system (BORIS) for each federal state. In part, data on real estate prices are included. Some data are free, others are paid. Extensive data can be called up for free in NRW.
Tip 3: Reports from market participants
Most of the seven largest cities in Germany have the most market data available. The brokerage house Jones Lang LaSalle publishes in the so-called Residential City Profiles to Berlin, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Cologne, Munich and Stuttgart purchase price ranges as well as purchase prices by apartment sizes and construction years. Especially in Berlin, the market report of Berlin housing company GSW is tailored to the prices of condominiums at district level. The research institute Empirica also offers an estimate, which determines the prices for condominiums and one- and two-family houses (inventory, new building) on a quarterly basis. Data on the ten most expensive cities will be published free of charge. Immobilienscout24 shows with theReal estate index IMX the housing price developments.
Tip 4: Property price databases of the media
For example, the property price databases of Capital and Manager Magazin are user-friendly with interactive maps. The portal Wohnungsboerse.net can be used especially for searching in smaller cities.
Also interesting is the online portal of Stiftung Warentest: On the pages of test.de you can download a calculator that contains price data for 30 cities and 20 counties. The prices are based on data from the Association of German Pfandbrief Banks.
Valuation of the property found
Brokers often have a good sense of the fair price of a property. Who acts in the search for real estate without brokers, must behave differently. A simple way to get a rough estimate of the price of a property is the following rule of thumb:
Market square meter price multiplied by square meter number of the property.
But that can only be a first orientation. If you want to evaluate the individual strengths and weaknesses of a property without a broker, you best use an online calculator. These are offered for example by Immobilienscout24 and Immobilienwert24 and cost about 30 to 40 euros. A much more precise assessment is given by the market value appraisals. These are made on a case-by-case basis by expert committeesincluding price collections and site visits. A particularly important factor in the expected performance is the location of the property – whether it is in an emerging region or more likely to be in an area with projected migration. No matter whether you are looking for real estate without a broker or with their help: Your personal life plan should fit the prognosis of the real estate value in the future.
Tip: It is important to know, even before the object search, which budget is available at all. Anyone who seeks early advice on financing receives security for this. And with a financing concept in your pocket, the seller of a property can be better convinced. Interhyp therefore offers a free advance consultation.