German Foreclosure Auctions Scraper (Zwangsversteigerung)

Every court-ordered property auction in Germany is published on the official portal zvg-portal.de, run jointly by the justice ministries of the federal states. This Actor collects the live inventory — all 16 states — with the auction date, the court, the property, its full address and its appraised market value.

About 3,400 proceedings are listed nationwide at any time, and roughly 90 of them change every day.

What you get

Field	Example
terminIso, terminUhrzeit	2026-09-09, 09:30 — when the auction is held
terminAufgehoben	true when the court has cancelled the date
objektart, objektKategorien	Eigentumswohnung (3 bis 4 Zimmer), ["Wohnung"]
adresse, strasse, plz, ort, ortsteil	Moorstr. 7, 28237 Bremen, Gröpelingen
verkehrswert	216000.0 — the court's appraised market value in EUR
verkehrswert50Prozent, verkehrswert70Prozent	the 50% and 70% marks of that value
verfahrensart	Zwangsversteigerung (Zwangsvollstreckung) or Teilungsversteigerung
gericht, aktenzeichen	Bremen-Blumenthal, 0026 K 0059/2025
bundesland, bundeslandCode	Bremen, hb
standIso	when the court last touched the entry
portalUrl	deep link into the portal, for you to open
id	stable identifier, for deduplication across runs

Fields an entry does not contain are null — never guessed.

Three things this Actor does that the source makes hard

1. It tells partition auctions apart. The portal does not show the type of proceeding in its result list, so the Actor determines it separately. This matters: 25% of all German proceedings are partition auctions (Teilungsversteigerung, 22% in NRW and 42% in Bavaria), where the 50% and 70% value marks of §§ 74a and 85a ZVG do not apply at all. The Actor therefore leaves verkehrswert50Prozent and verkehrswert70Prozent empty there instead of publishing a number that means nothing. Those two fields are plain arithmetic on the published value, not legal advice.

2. It reads the market value correctly when the court writes prose. 27% of value cells contain more than a number. Real examples from a single day:

119.000,--
349.600,- Euro
zu 1: 85.000 € zu 2: 20.000 €
Flst. 66 - 146.000 EUR   Flst. 68 - 89.000,00 EUR
Lfd.Nr. 11: 653,00 Euro  Lfd.Nr. 12: 390,00 Euro
Lfd.Nr. 13: 264.000,00 Euro   Gesamtverkehrswert: 265.043,00 Euro

Taking the first number in that last cell would report 653 € for a property worth 265,043 €. The Actor looks for a stated total first, then checks whether one amount is the sum of the others, and only then falls back to the first — marking the record verkehrswertMehrdeutig when it had to. Every amount found is kept in verkehrswertPositionen, and the original sentence in verkehrswertHinweis.

3. It keeps cancelled auctions. About 5% of entries read "Der Termin … wurde aufgehoben." They carry no property data, so they are easy to drop — but if you are monitoring a debtor, a cancelled auction is the news. Set ohneAufgehobeneTermine to drop them, or nurAufgehobeneTermine to see nothing else.

Typical uses

• Property sourcing — filter by postcode, category and value, get the auction date weeks ahead
• Distressed asset monitoring — watch a region or a value band and be told what changed since yesterday
• Credit risk — 13 proceedings nationwide are filed by an insolvency administrator; they connect directly to insolvency monitoring
• Market analysis — 1.13 bn EUR of appraised value across 3,400 properties, broken down by state, court, category and value

Related Actors

Insolvency proceedings are published on a different federal portal, and the same people tend to watch both. German Insolvency Announcements covers openings, dismissals for lack of assets and distribution lists — including the appointed administrator with phone number and email. The 13 auctions here that were filed by an insolvency administrator are the point where the two meet.

German Insolvency Check takes the other route: hand it a list of names and it reports, per name, whether the insolvency register has anything on it, at which court, under which file number, and whether the proceeding is still running. Useful for putting a name you found in an auction listing straight through the register.

The justice administration auctions movable goods as well — vehicles, machinery, jewellery, tools seized by bailiffs — alongside what customs and municipalities sell off. German Government Auctions covers both official portals in one schema, with the current bid, the closing time, the pickup address and the case worker's phone number and e-mail.

Input

Everything is optional. The defaults cover all states and stop after 50 entries, so a first trial run finishes in about three seconds — set maxErgebnisse to 0 for a real run.

Option	Default	Meaning
bundeslaender	all 16	Which federal states to cover
objektKategorien	all	Haus, Wohnung, Grundstück, Gewerbe, Stellplatz, Teileigentum
verfahrensarten	all	Restrict to enforcement, partition auctions, …
verkehrswertMin / verkehrswertMax	—	Value band in EUR
plzPraefix	—	Postcode prefixes, e.g. ["80", "81"] for Munich
ort	—	Substring of town, district or street
terminInnerhalbTagen	—	Only auctions within the next N days
ohneAufgehobeneTermine / nurAufgehobeneTermine	false	Handle cancellations
verfahrensartErmitteln	true	Determine the type of proceeding (≈5 extra requests per state)
nurNeue	false	Only entries that are new or that the court has changed
maxErgebnisse	50	Stop after N entries; 0 = no limit
statusSpeicher	zvg-gesehen	Named store for nurNeue; use different names for independent monitors
pauseSekunden	0.2	Delay before each request to the portal

For monitoring, set nurNeue: true and schedule the Actor. An entry counts as new when it appears for the first time or when the court has updated it, which is what standIso records. You are not charged twice for an entry nobody touched.

Scale and speed

A complete national run is 3,400 proceedings from 67 requests in about 2.5 minutes — 51 records per request. One state takes seconds. The Actor talks plain HTTP to the portal, no headless browser, which is why it is fast and cheap to run.

Limits, honestly

• Four states barely use this portal. Hamburg and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern currently list nothing at all, Schleswig-Holstein one entry, and Baden-Württemberg only about 50. That is the source, not the Actor.
• Only the result list. The portal's robots.txt disallows crawling the detail view and the PDF attachments, so the Actor never requests them — you get portalUrl and the anhaenge count and open them yourself. Everything worth having (value, date, address, property type) is in the list anyway.
• The type of proceeding is not free. Determining it costs about five extra requests per state. Turn verfahrensartErmitteln off if you do not need it — the 50%/70% marks then stay empty, because they cannot be computed safely without it.
• The market value is the court's appraisal, often a year or more old, and sometimes stated per parcel rather than per property. Check verkehrswertHinweis whenever it is set.
• Entries disappear once the auction has been held. There is no archive to go back to.
• Property addresses are property addresses, not debtor addresses. The portal does not publish debtor names.

Pricing

Pay per event:

Event	What it covers
actor-start	once per run
treffer	one proceeding with all parsed fields

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Keywords: Zwangsversteigerung, Zwangsversteigerungstermine, ZVG, ZVG-Portal, Teilungsversteigerung, Verkehrswert, Immobilien Zwangsversteigerung, foreclosure auction Germany, German court auctions, Amtsgericht Versteigerung, Immobilien-Leads, distressed real estate Germany.