Master the Essentials: Real Estate and Housing Vocabulary in German

Here is a list of common real estate and housing vocabulary in German:

• das Haus — house
• die Wohnung — apartment
• die Wohnungsmiete — apartment rent
• der Mietvertrag — rental agreement/lease
• der Vermieter — landlord
• der Mieter — tenant
• der Käufer — buyer
• der Verkäufer — seller
• der Immobilienmakler — real estate agent
• die Immobilie — property
• das Grundstück — plot of land
• der Bau — construction
• der Neubau — new building
• die Eigentumswohnung — condominium/ownership apartment
• die Nebenkosten — additional costs (e.g., utilities)
• die Kaution — security deposit
• die Hypothek — mortgage
• das Eigenheim — owner-occupied home
• die Renovierung — renovation
• die Lage — location
• der Balkon — balcony
• der Aufzug — elevator
• die Tiefgarage — underground garage/parking garage
• der Garten — garden
• die Miete — rent
• die Eigentumswohnung — condominium
• das Reihenhaus — townhouse
• das Mehrfamilienhaus — multi-family house

This vocabulary covers basic terms useful in general real estate and housing contexts in German. If more specialized vocabulary or phrases are needed, please ask.

References

• The state role in the housing sector in Hamburg and Havana challenges and successes of the state’s claim to control in different political and planning systems

• IGJR 1/2020: Housing crisis: How can we improve the situation for young people?

• Kollokationen im Lernerwörterbuch – Anspruch und Wirklichkeit

• The Kleinhaus and the Politics of Localism in German Architecture and Planning, c. 1910

• MaiBaam Annotation Guidelines

• Renovation without renoviction: the green redevelopment of a municipal housing estate in Drewitz, Germany

• Regional Real Estate Price Indices for Germany, 2008 – 2019: RWI–GEO–REDX

• Housing Market Fundamentals, Housing Quality and Energy Consumption: Evidence from Germany

• The First German Municipal Exposition. (Dresden, 1903)

• SEMANTIC ASPECT OF COMPOUND NEOLOGISMS IN THE MODERN GERMAN LANGUAGE (Based On Marketing Lexis Materials)

• Adverbial reinforcement of demonstratives in dialectal German

• PECULARITIES OF REALITIES CONCEPTS VERBALIZATION IN MODERN GERMANLITERARY DISCOURSE

• ‘My home is my people’ homemaking among rough sleepers in Leipzig, Germany

• Nonprofit Landlord Types on the Housing Market—A Key to Rising Displacement in Berlin?