German Foreclosure Auction Leads — ZVG Property Deals

Find German court-auction properties worth investigating. Get the appraisal value, auction date, address and official documents as a clean, numbers-as-numbers dataset — without learning the ZVG portal or German state codes.

Pick a market, press Start, and get investment-ready rows in about a minute.

Zwangsversteigerungen als verwertbare Immobilien-Leads

Der Actor sammelt öffentliche Zwangsversteigerungen aus dem offiziellen ZVG-Portal und bereitet sie für Käufer, Makler, Investoren und Research-Teams auf.

• Verkehrswert, Termin und Adresse stehen direkt am Anfang jedes Datensatzes.
• Gutachten, Exposés und amtliche PDFs bleiben als klickbare Dokumentlinks erhalten.
• Normalisierte Objektarten erleichtern Filter für Wohnungen, Häuser, Grundstücke und Gewerbe.
• Tage bis zum Termin helfen bei der Priorisierung.
• €/m² wird berechnet, wenn die Bekanntmachung eine geeignete Wohn-, Nutz- oder Grundstücksfläche enthält.
• Alle 16 Bundesländer in einem Lauf — kein Bundesland-für-Bundesland-Klicken.
• Im Monitoring-Modus erscheinen nach dem ersten Lauf nur neu hinzugekommene Verfahren.

Who uses this

You are	You use it to
Property investor / buyer	Screen upcoming auctions by €/m² and appraisal before booking a viewing
Estate agent	Spot owners and objects in your farming area weeks before the auction date
Auction service / bidder agent	Build a daily pipeline of new cases and pull the official appraisal PDFs
Proptech / data team	Feed a normalized German distressed-asset feed into your product or model
Analyst / researcher	Track appraisal levels and auction volume by state and property type

What you get

Each dataset row represents one auction property and can include:

Field	Meaning
propertyType	Normalized category such as Apartment, House, Multi-family, Land or Commercial
objectType	Original German property description
address	Published property location
appraisalValueEur	Court appraisal value (Verkehrswert) in euros, as a number
areaSqm, areaBasis	Extracted area and whether it is living, usable or land area
pricePerSqmEur	Appraisal value divided by the extracted area
auctionDate	Normalized auction date and time (ISO)
daysUntilAuction	Calendar days remaining at collection time
attachments	Official appraisal, notice or exposé links
isCancelled	Auction marked as cancelled or postponed by the court
isNewSinceLastRun	true for rows returned by monitoring mode
caseNumber, court, stateName, detailUrl	Official case references
description, venue, landRegister, creditorInfo	Added when Add investment details is on

Sample row (shortened):

{
  "propertyType": "Apartment",
  "objectType": "Eigentumswohnung (1 bis 2 Zimmer)",
  "address": "Im Dol 7, 14195 Berlin, Dahlem",
  "appraisalValueEur": 280000,
  "areaSqm": 48.59,
  "areaBasis": "living_area",
  "pricePerSqmEur": 5762.5,
  "auctionDate": "2026-08-28T10:00:00",
  "daysUntilAuction": 34,
  "stateName": "Berlin",
  "caseNumber": "0076 K 0076/2025",
  "attachments": [
    { "title": "Amtliche Bekanntmachung", "url": "https://www.zvg-portal.de/?button=showAnhang&land_abk=be&file_id=67224&zvg_id=14403" }
  ],
  "detailUrl": "https://www.zvg-portal.de/index.php?button=showZvg&zvg_id=14403&land_abk=be"
}

pricePerSqmEur is intentionally left empty when the source does not publish a reliable area. It is a screening metric based on the court appraisal — not a sale price or valuation recommendation.

Start in under a minute

1. Select a market preset.
2. Keep the initial limit at 10.
3. Run the Actor and open the Property deals dataset view.
4. Review appraisal, date, address and documents, then increase the limit.

Default input:

{
  "marketPreset": "berlin",
  "maxResultsPerState": 10,
  "includeDetails": true,
  "onlyNewAuctions": false
}

Market presets

Preset	Covers
berlin	Berlin
nrw	North Rhine-Westphalia — the highest-volume auction market
hamburg	Hamburg
munich	Bavaria, filtered to München
frankfurt	Hesse, filtered to Frankfurt
all-germany	All 16 Bundesländer in one run
custom	Your own state codes and optional city filter

For a custom city:

{
  "marketPreset": "custom",
  "states": ["sn"],
  "city": "Leipzig",
  "maxResultsPerState": 100,
  "includeDetails": true
}

State codes follow the ZVG portal: bw, by, be, br, hb, hh, he, mv, ni, nw, rp, sl, sn, st, sh, th, or all.

How much is out there

Open auctions per state on 26 July 2026, with the median court appraisal — useful for sizing a run before you scale the limit:

State	Open auctions	Median appraisal
Nordrhein-Westfalen	949	€204,600
Niedersachsen	303	€177,750
Bayern	301	€186,000
Hessen	299	€190,500
Rheinland-Pfalz	283	€118,000
Sachsen	188	€55,000
Thüringen	181	€43,000
Sachsen-Anhalt	169	€60,000
Brandenburg	125	€114,500
Berlin	86	€427,500
Saarland	75	€93,500
Baden-Württemberg	45	€200,000
Bremen	16	€180,000

Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Schleswig-Holstein published no open auctions at that time, so a run limited to them returns an empty dataset — and costs nothing.

Ready-made example tasks

Each of these is a saved configuration you can open, run and clone — no input to fill in:

Task	What it returns
Zwangsversteigerungen NRW scrapen	The largest German auction market, up to 500 deals
Zwangsversteigerungen Berlin scrapen	Every open Berlin auction with appraisal and €/m²
Zwangsversteigerungen Niedersachsen scrapen	Lower Saxony, a high-volume mixed market
Zwangsversteigerungen Sachsen scrapen	Saxony — the lowest median appraisals in Germany
Zwangsversteigerungen Frankfurt scrapen	Hesse, filtered to Frankfurt am Main
Zwangsversteigerungen Bayern scrapen	All of Bavaria, up to 500 deals
German property auctions — nationwide snapshot	Every open auction in Germany in one run
Monitor new German foreclosure auctions daily	Only cases that appeared since your last run

Monitor newly listed auctions

Enable onlyNewAuctions and schedule the same input. The first run establishes the current baseline. Following runs output only ZVG IDs not seen in earlier runs for each state — useful for alerts, CRM imports and recurring acquisition pipelines.

{
  "marketPreset": "all-germany",
  "onlyNewAuctions": true,
  "maxResultsPerState": 1000,
  "includeDetails": true
}

Pair it with an Apify Schedule (for example daily at 07:00) and an integration — Slack, email, a webhook, Google Sheets or Make/Zapier — so new cases land where you already work.

Use it from code

Every run is available through the Apify API and clients, so the dataset can be pulled straight into your own stack:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/webdata_labs~germany-zvg-auctions-api/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"marketPreset":"nrw","maxResultsPerState":200,"includeDetails":true}'

Pricing

You pay $2 per 1,000 successful auction rows — no monthly fee, no charge for starting a run, and the rate drops on higher Apify plans:

Your Apify plan	Per 1,000 auction rows
Free / Starter	$2.00
Scale	$1.75
Business and above	$1.50

Apify platform usage (compute, proxy, storage) is included in that event price. State summaries, diagnostics and failed requests go to run output (OUTPUT) and are never billed as property leads — a run over an empty state costs nothing.

A concrete example: a full nationwide snapshot returned 3,020 auctions, so it cost about $6 on the Free plan. A daily monitoring run that finds 20 new cases costs about 4 cents.

FAQ

Do I need a proxy? No. The public ZVG portal is reached directly; the proxy input exists only for unusual network setups.

Why is a field empty? Availability varies by court. Some notices omit the full address, area, appraisal document or a future date. Missing values stay empty instead of being guessed.

Why does one property show a lower area than expected? The area is extracted from free-text German notices. When a notice lists several areas, verify against the linked appraisal before acting on pricePerSqmEur.

How fresh is the data? Each run reads the portal live, so rows reflect the portal at collection time (scrapedAt).

Can I get only cheap objects, or only apartments? Filter the dataset after the run — propertyType, appraisalValueEur and pricePerSqmEur are plain, sortable fields in every export format.

Data source and responsible use

The source is Germany's public official ZVG portal. Availability and completeness vary by court. Always verify a property and its documents with the responsible court before making financial or legal decisions. Respect privacy, applicable law and the source website's terms.