Commission-free real estate directly from the owner in Schulzendorf

A growing village near Berlin with high demand and good prospects for the future

Just 20 kilometers from downtown Berlin, the community is located in the north of the Dahme-Spreewald district in the southeast of the state of Brandenburg. Similar to, though not as pronounced as, the nearby cities of Königs Wusterhausen, Mittenwalde and Wildau, as well as Rangsdorf or Teltow in the neighboring districts of Teltow-Fläming and Potsdam-Mittelmark, there has been a remarkable population increase in and around Schulzendorf since the 1990s, from just under 6,000 at the time to currently over 7,500 inhabitants, with a continuing upward trend. The fact that the town on the southeastern outskirts of Berlin, unlike many towns and communities in the Oder-Spree district further east, with the exception of Grünheide (Mark), Schöneiche bei Berlin, Woltersdorf, Schlaubetal and Scharmützelsee, has not been and is not affected by a significant population decline is generally due primarily to its proximity to the federal capital and especially to its direct proximity to the future Berlin Brandenburg "Willy Brandt" Airport (BER). On the other hand, this location at the major construction site, which has not been completed for years, can of course also be viewed quite ambivalently with regard to local real estate acquisition. The distance to the runways, which will presumably be in operation there in a few years, is only about 3 to 5 kilometers. In view of the expected background noise and the fact that the government has not yet fully clarified the costs of noise insulation measures for residents, it is all the more surprising that in Schulzendorf, just as in the neighboring communities of Eichwalde and Zeuthen, there is currently an increasing demand for real estate and many purchases are being made.

Despite the proximity to the new airport, demand and real estate prices are rising

For example, local real estate agents are already registering many inquiries from pilots and other employees in the aviation industry who would like to live near their place of work in the future - sometimes only as a second home. In this respect, therefore, one should not necessarily rely on the often invoked or lamented and allegedly inevitable threat of loss of land value in the individual approach corridors of the planned airport. On the contrary, all communities affected by flight paths in Brandenburg or the corresponding districts of Berlin have been recording rising land and real estate prices for years. For example, the current average property purchase price for houses in Schulzendorf is around 1,400 euros/m², which is almost on a par with the Brandenburg average, but still below the German average (around 1,700 euros/m²). Especially houses with sizes up to 100m² have increased in price by about 10 percent since 2011, but houses between 150 and 200 m² of living space have fallen with prices around 1,400 or even only 1,200 euros/m². Thus, the price level in Schulzendorf is currently still somewhat lower than in the eastern or southern neighboring cities and communities of Schönefeld, Zeuten, Eichwalde and Wildau, where the average property purchase price currently hovers around 1,500 to 1,600 euros / m². In any case, the municipal administration itself sees the future next to Flugfeld as largely positive and confident. Several development areas and plots of land in the inner area have already been designated for further settlements, and it is hoped that the desired increase in population could increase the number of residents to up to 10,000 in the long term.

The balanced character of the municipality is to be preserved even in times of change.

The original village center of Alt-Schulzendorf is now surrounded by protected open spaces, and the popular recreation and nature reserve Waltersdorfer Flutgrabenaue, located to the southwest, will probably not be built in the foreseeable future either. However, there is considerably more space for residential and commercial properties of all kinds around the town hall, which was newly built in 2009, including the municipal administration in the center of Schulzendorf-Mitte between Ernst-Thälmann-Strasse and Ebbegraben, where various retail stores, medical facilities and restaurants have already settled. There are also still isolated building plots on the borders of the Eichberg settlement in the north of the municipality, which merges into the neighboring municipality of Eichwalde, as well as in the southeastern settlement of Neu-Schulzendorf without a recognizable border to the municipality of Zeuthen. However, the land use plan of the municipality of Schulzendorf is intended to preserve the quality of the residential location as a balanced mixture of residential areas, wooded areas and meadows. For the protected ensemble of buildings of the former knight's estate in the old village, which was built in the Art Nouveau style, there is also a joint structural concept with plans for a use as a hotel and congress center. Through private and voluntary initiatives, some historic buildings such as the former servants' quarters and the magnificent patronage church have already been restored there.

Short facts Real estate in Schulzendorf:

- Schulzendorf has long benefited from its location on the city limits of Berlin
- The nearby new airport is more likely to increase values than cause losses
- Property prices are still slightly below those in the neighborhood
- The new airport is expected to increase values rather than cause losses. New impulses are currently coming from the newly designed town center
- Potential building areas in the east are limited due to the airport and nature conservation
- In the west on the borders to Eichwalde and Zeuthen there are still plots available
- A hotel and congress center is to be built in the manor house ensemble in the old village.