Real Estate: High interest rates slow down the real estate market: Where sellers wait particularly long for buyers
The high prices are having an impact: An exclusive evaluation shows significant differences in the marketing duration of housing advertisements. In which cities it is now fastest for sellers.
A study by German real estate broker Hausgold found that homes and apartments in Germany take varying amounts of time to sell, with listings in some regions lasting almost nine weeks. The analysis of hundreds of thousands of property listings from January to May 2026 showed that in the seven largest German cities, Düsseldorf had the longest sales duration at 6.2 weeks, while Munich had the shortest at 5 weeks.
At the local level, Zweibrücken in Rhineland-Palatinate had the longest sales duration at 8.8 weeks, while Neumarkt in Upper Palatinate had the shortest at 3.1 weeks. The average sales duration across all regions was 5.9 weeks.
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