Homberg and the inner east still price as cash-flow. The port is an employer, not a waterfront lifestyle brand. Yields that look high need vacancy and capex stress.
NRW transfer tax. sivrce publishes Duisburg as itself, not as “cheap Düsseldorf”.
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Duisburg real estate
Duisburg is a Rhine-Ruhr port city — among the more affordable German metros, with a large harbour, a university, and a wide spread of post-war stock.
Street-verified new-builds
Notary & Grundbuch
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Cities
82 cities, each with its own transfer tax
Grunderwerbsteuer is state law — the same apartment costs a different surcharge in Munich and Cologne. The twelve largest first; the rest folds open.
- Berlin6.0%Buy €5,300/m² · Rent €15.5/m² · ~3.5%
- Hamburg5.5%Buy €6,300/m² · Rent €15.5/m² · ~3%
- München3.5%Buy €8,800/m² · Rent €23/m² · ~3.1%
- Köln6.5%Buy €4,700/m² · Rent €13/m² · ~3.3%
- Frankfurt am Main6.0%Buy €6,900/m² · Rent €17.5/m² · ~3%
- Stuttgart5.0%Buy €5,500/m² · Rent €15/m² · ~3.3%
- Düsseldorf6.5%Buy €5,300/m² · Rent €14/m² · ~3.2%
- Leipzig5.5%Buy €3,300/m² · Rent €8.3/m² · ~3%
- Dortmund6.5%Buy €2,700/m² · Rent €8/m² · ~3.6%
- Essen6.5%Buy €2,600/m² · Rent €8.2/m² · ~3.8%
- Bremen5.5%Buy €3,200/m² · Rent €10/m² · ~3.8%
- Dresden5.5%Buy €3,600/m² · Rent €9.5/m² · ~3.2%
70 more cities
- Hannover5.0%Buy €3,900/m² · Rent €11/m² · ~3.4%
- Nürnberg3.5%Buy €4,600/m² · Rent €12.5/m² · ~3.3%
- Duisburg6.5%Buy €2,200/m² · Rent €7.5/m² · ~4.1%
- Bochum6.5%Buy €2,500/m² · Rent €8.3/m² · ~4%
- Wuppertal6.5%Buy €2,600/m² · Rent €8.5/m² · ~3.9%
- Bielefeld6.5%Buy €3,000/m² · Rent €9.5/m² · ~3.8%
- Bonn6.5%Buy €5,200/m² · Rent €13.5/m² · ~3.1%
- Münster6.5%Buy €4,100/m² · Rent €11.5/m² · ~3.4%
- Mannheim5.0%Buy €3,900/m² · Rent €11/m² · ~3.4%
- Karlsruhe5.0%Buy €4,300/m² · Rent €12/m² · ~3.3%
- Augsburg3.5%Buy €3,800/m² · Rent €11/m² · ~3.5%
- Wiesbaden6.0%Buy €4,800/m² · Rent €13/m² · ~3.3%
- Mönchengladbach6.5%Buy €2,900/m² · Rent €9/m² · ~3.7%
- Gelsenkirchen6.5%Buy €1,900/m² · Rent €7.2/m² · ~4.5%
- Aachen6.5%Buy €3,200/m² · Rent €10.5/m² · ~3.9%
- Braunschweig5.0%Buy €3,300/m² · Rent €9.8/m² · ~3.6%
- Chemnitz5.5%Buy €2,100/m² · Rent €6.5/m² · ~3.7%
- Kiel6.5%Buy €3,600/m² · Rent €11/m² · ~3.7%
- Halle (Saale)5.0%Buy €2,300/m² · Rent €7/m² · ~3.7%
- Magdeburg5.0%Buy €2,400/m² · Rent €7.5/m² · ~3.8%
- Freiburg im Breisgau5.0%Buy €5,600/m² · Rent €15.5/m² · ~3.3%
- Krefeld6.5%Buy €2,700/m² · Rent €8.8/m² · ~3.9%
- Mainz5.0%Buy €4,800/m² · Rent €13.5/m² · ~3.4%
- Lübeck6.5%Buy €3,600/m² · Rent €10.5/m² · ~3.5%
- Erfurt5.0%Buy €3,300/m² · Rent €9.5/m² · ~3.5%
- Oberhausen6.5%Buy €2,200/m² · Rent €7.8/m² · ~4.3%
- Rostock6.0%Buy €3,400/m² · Rent €10/m² · ~3.5%
- Kassel6.0%Buy €3,100/m² · Rent €9.3/m² · ~3.6%
- Potsdam6.5%Buy €4,700/m² · Rent €12.5/m² · ~3.2%
- Saarbrücken6.5%Buy €2,800/m² · Rent €8.8/m² · ~3.8%
- Hamm6.5%Buy €2,200/m² · Rent €7.6/m² · ~4.1%
- Ludwigshafen am Rhein5.0%Buy €3,100/m² · Rent €9.5/m² · ~3.7%
- Oldenburg5.0%Buy €3,400/m² · Rent €10.3/m² · ~3.6%
- Osnabrück5.0%Buy €3,300/m² · Rent €9.8/m² · ~3.6%
- Leverkusen6.5%Buy €3,600/m² · Rent €10.5/m² · ~3.5%
- Heidelberg5.0%Buy €5,400/m² · Rent €15/m² · ~3.3%
- Darmstadt6.0%Buy €4,600/m² · Rent €12.5/m² · ~3.3%
- Solingen6.5%Buy €2,700/m² · Rent €8.5/m² · ~3.8%
- Herne6.5%Buy €2,000/m² · Rent €7.2/m² · ~4.3%
- Regensburg3.5%Buy €4,400/m² · Rent €12.5/m² · ~3.4%
- Neuss6.5%Buy €3,400/m² · Rent €10/m² · ~3.5%
- Ingolstadt3.5%Buy €4,300/m² · Rent €12/m² · ~3.3%
- Würzburg3.5%Buy €4,300/m² · Rent €11.5/m² · ~3.2%
- Wolfsburg5.0%Buy €2,600/m² · Rent €8/m² · ~3.7%
- Ulm5.0%Buy €4,000/m² · Rent €11.5/m² · ~3.5%
- Paderborn6.5%Buy €3,000/m² · Rent €9/m² · ~3.6%
- Pforzheim5.0%Buy €3,200/m² · Rent €9.5/m² · ~3.6%
- Offenbach am Main6.0%Buy €3,800/m² · Rent €11/m² · ~3.5%
- Bottrop6.5%Buy €2,200/m² · Rent €7.5/m² · ~4.1%
- Fürth3.5%Buy €4,100/m² · Rent €11.5/m² · ~3.4%
- Recklinghausen6.5%Buy €2,300/m² · Rent €7.5/m² · ~3.9%
- Bremerhaven5.5%Buy €2,300/m² · Rent €8/m² · ~4.2%
- Reutlingen5.0%Buy €3,300/m² · Rent €9.5/m² · ~3.5%
- Remscheid6.5%Buy €2,500/m² · Rent €8/m² · ~3.8%
- Koblenz5.0%Buy €3,300/m² · Rent €9.8/m² · ~3.6%
- Bergisch Gladbach6.5%Buy €3,300/m² · Rent €9.5/m² · ~3.5%
- Erlangen3.5%Buy €4,800/m² · Rent €13/m² · ~3.3%
- Trier5.0%Buy €3,400/m² · Rent €9.8/m² · ~3.5%
- Salzgitter5.0%Buy €1,900/m² · Rent €6.8/m² · ~4.3%
- Jena5.0%Buy €3,600/m² · Rent €10/m² · ~3.3%
- Cottbus6.5%Buy €2,100/m² · Rent €6.8/m² · ~3.9%
- Hildesheim5.0%Buy €2,900/m² · Rent €8.8/m² · ~3.6%
- Moers6.5%Buy €2,600/m² · Rent €8.3/m² · ~3.8%
- Siegen6.5%Buy €2,500/m² · Rent €8/m² · ~3.8%
- Gera5.0%Buy €1,900/m² · Rent €6.5/m² · ~4.1%
- Kaiserslautern5.0%Buy €2,400/m² · Rent €8/m² · ~4%
- Göttingen5.0%Buy €2,900/m² · Rent €10/m² · ~4.1%
- Hagen6.5%Buy €1,900/m² · Rent €7.3/m² · ~4.6%
- Heilbronn5.0%Buy €3,600/m² · Rent €10.5/m² · ~3.5%
- Mülheim an der Ruhr6.5%Buy €2,100/m² · Rent €7.6/m² · ~4.3%
What a purchase really costs
€500,000 apartment in Duisburg
- Transfer tax (Grunderwerbsteuer 6.5%)
- €32,500
- Notary (≈1.5%)
- €7,500
- Land register (Grundbuch ≈0.5%)
- €2,500
- Buyer agent share (3.57% incl. VAT)
- €17,850
- Cash needed at notary
- €560,350
≈ +12.1% over the price. Provisionsfrei (no-agent) listings drop the Makler line. The notary reads the contract aloud before signature — German law, not a formality.
Rentals run on rules
The rent side, in three lines
- Bestellerprinzip: whoever hires the agent pays. No tenant commission on residential lets.
- Deposits cap at three months’ cold rent (§551 BGB) and must sit on a separate savings account.
- Mietpreisbremse caps new leases above local comparative rent in tight areas; Berlin’s Mietspiegel sets the benchmark.
- Modernization may be passed on at 8% of cost per year (§559 BGB) — check the Anpassung history before you underwrite.
Qualitative anchors only — live numbers come from the official city Mietspiegel, never a hardcoded table.
FAQ
Is Duisburg a bargain trap?
It can be if you buy the wrong block. Port jobs are real; tenant quality and building condition decide the deal.
Foreign buyers?
Allowed under German notarial law.
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