Sell residential in Bremen.

When buying an apartment or mixed-use building we review rent roll, vacancy, capex backlog and the mix of residential and commercial units.

Rent regulation, preservation areas and energy condition affect price and financing. Submit your acquisition profile as a search brief.

Bremen's residential leasing market entered 2026 on a steady footing, with the city-wide average asking rent at roughly 9.98 EUR/sqm/month, up about 4 percent year on year. As a regional centre of around 570,000 inhabitants, the city combines resilient household formation, a sizeable student population anchored by the University of Bremen, and a chronically tight supply of quality apartments in its most sought-after quarters. The qualified Mietspiegel 2026, in force until the end of 2027, provides the legal reference for permissible rents, while the Mietpreisbremse applies in designated tight-market areas. Rent growth is firm but not explosive, and it is highly location-dependent. The clearest demand is concentrated in a handful of districts. Schwachhausen, the city's bourgeois heartland of Gründerzeit villas and tree-lined boulevards, commands rents around 11.8 EUR/sqm and remains the most stable and supply-constrained submarket. The Oestliche Vorstadt, known locally as Das Viertel and centred on Ostertorsteinweg and Vor dem Steintor, draws students, creatives and young professionals into dense Altbau stock, while Findorff retains broad family appeal next to the Hauptbahnhof. Horn-Lehe benefits from university and Technologiepark employment, and Neustadt offers a value-and-growth profile as gentrification spreads from Das Viertel across the Weser. The defining supply story is the waterfront. Ueberseestadt and the adjacent Ueberseeinsel, a large brownfield conversion around the former Kellogg's plant, are delivering thousands of new apartments and command the city's highest new-build rents, often in the 12-15 EUR/sqm range. Further projects at the Tabakquartier in Woltmershausen and the Gartenstadt Werdersee add several hundred more units. Even so, established premium quarters face little new construction because of constrained land and elevated build costs, which underpins their defensive cash-flow appeal. The leasing market is dominated by GEWOBA, the municipal landlord with more than 42,000 units, alongside Vonovia and BREBAU. For investors and occupiers alike, the twelve-month outlook favours new-build waterfront product and value-add Altbau refurbishment in gentrifying corridors, tempered by affordability ceilings in the premium quarters and by regulatory and energy-efficiency requirements that increasingly shape achievable net rents.

new let rent: 11.5 EUR/sqm/month (indicative new-let rent, sought-after central districts); avg asking rent: 9.98 EUR/sqm/month (city average asking rent, Q1 2026); mietspiegel status: 2,027 qualified Mietspiegel 2026 in force, valid until 31 Dec 2027; schwachhausen rent: 11.77 EUR/sqm/month (Schwachhausen above-average asking rent).