In the Hanover Region we are there for you in all 21 towns and municipalities.

The Hanover region is not a district in the usual sense but a municipal association of 21 towns and municipalities with the state capital inside it. As at 31 December 2024 it counted some 1,203,000 inhabitants, by far the largest of the eleven districts we work in. No place in the association is marked as lying outside — so we are there for you in all 21 towns and municipalities.

A single section carries a large part of these people: the state capital itself. The remaining twenty municipalities range from densely built city edge to villages where the nearest neighbour is a field away. For us that means two very different kinds of estate lie side by side in a single district — the flat on the fourth floor and the house at the edge of the village, often in the same branch of a family.

Inhabitants: population update of 31 December 2024 (Lower Saxony statistical office); inside and outside assignment: area marking of 15 May 2026.

Across the median of the 21 municipalities the ownership rate is 45.3 per cent: that share of households live in a house or flat of their own. That is the lowest value among the Lower Saxony districts in our area. Next to a large labour market a great deal is rented, and those who do acquire property acquire a flat more often than a house. 53.8 per cent of buildings are detached single-family houses — just over half, and the lowest share among the Lower Saxony districts in our area.

For an inheritance this has three very tangible consequences. First, the estate here is more often split: a flat, perhaps a parking space, plus an account — and none of the three can sensibly be valued without the others. Second, a flat comes with a community that carries on whether the heirs agree or not: charges fall due, the meeting is held, an agreed refurbishment is apportioned. Six months of silence between heirs ends in a bill nobody discussed. Third, a detached house poses the same old question as everywhere: it cannot be lived in by shares, so one takes it over, or all sell.

The median construction year is 1970. These houses and flats are older than most of their present occupants were when they moved in, and they bring the questions of their building period with them: heating, windows, insulation, a bathroom missing on the ground floor. 23.4 per cent of people are 65 or older — the lowest share among the Lower Saxony districts in our area, and still almost one in four. Together this explains why so many conversations here do not begin after a death but before it — at a move, at entry into care, at the question whether a second floor is still reasonable.

Share of detached single-family houses, median construction year and share aged 65 and over are weighted means across the 100-metre cells of the 2022 census — each weighted by the reference its definition names (buildings, buildings, inhabitants). A Wahrgut analysis of available data, not an official district figure. The owner-occupier rate is weighted too — by the number of households, an approximation for the dwelling count the grid does not carry.

The guideline land value for residential building land is 298 euros per square metre across the district. Among the area districts we work in, that is the highest value; only the independent city of Bielefeld lies above it at around 381 euros. After that the series falls away: Gütersloh 206, Lippe 138, Herford 133, Hildesheim 120, Osnabrück 78, Minden-Lübbecke 75, Schaumburg and Hameln-Pyrmont 62 each, Nienburg 43 euros.

What that means in practice matters more than the figure. For a house with a plot, the land carries a considerable part of the value here — unlike the rural districts, where almost everything hangs on the building. Two houses in the same condition can therefore differ markedly on location and layout alone. For a flat, by contrast, the land share exists arithmetically but is barely tangible in a negotiation: what makes the price is location, floor plan, storey, lift, the condition of the building and the size of the reserve fund.

That is precisely why a quick glance at a land value table misleads so easily in this region. It names a large number, and the large number lodges in a family before anyone has seen the stairwell. We work the other way round: first the house or the flat, then the assessment, and then the sentence about what that assessment is not. It is not a formal valuation. A formal valuation report is prepared by an independent expert, not by us.

Guideline land value for residential building land across the district — a weighted mean over the 28,072 occupied 100-metre cells of the official guideline land value map. A Wahrgut analysis of available data; not a district figure published by a valuation committee. The comparison values for the other districts are formed the same way.

A large labour market draws people in and sends children away. Co-heirs here often live scattered: a sister in Hanover, a brother in southern Germany, a cousin abroad, and the flat is in Langenhagen. Anyone who says “we will sort this out within the family” in such a setup means it honestly and still underestimates what a time difference and three calendars can cost.

We therefore set the order first, not the pace. The inheritance roadmap establishes who belongs to the community of heirs, what belongs to the estate and which deadlines are running — responsibility for the estate always lies with the local court at the deceased person’s last place of residence, incidentally, not the one where the flat stands. Only once everyone holds the same picture does it turn to value and direction. Where the family remains at odds on a point, an ordered understanding helps more than another round of phone calls. If the flat or house stands empty in the meantime, we look after it for a time: post, heating, a look at how things stand, and in a block of flats the link to the management so that decisions do not pass an unattended letterbox.

Two things help a scattered community of heirs more than any amount of good will. The first is a single account of where matters stand that everyone has in front of them: a list of what belongs to the estate, what has been settled and what remains open. As long as each person holds a different sheet, three people argue about three different flats. The second is an agreed order of decisions. Whether someone takes the property over can sensibly be settled only once value, condition and running costs lie side by side — not at the kitchen table after the funeral, when everyone is tired and one person is already thinking about the drive home.

What holds a community of heirs together in law, and where its fault lines lie, we have set out at length. And the regional page Hanover region describes how we work in the wider area; this page describes how far.

Barsinghausen · Burgdorf · Burgwedel · Garbsen · Gehrden · Hannover · Hemmingen · Isernhagen · Laatzen · Langenhagen · Lehrte · Neustadt am Rübenberge · Pattensen · Ronnenberg · Seelze · Sehnde · Springe · Uetze · Wedemark · Wennigsen (Deister) · Wunstorf

A segment classification exists in the valuation data for these 21; all median values on this page are formed from them. Individual place pages will follow only once enough evidenced statements exist for each — a page that merely swaps the place name helps nobody.

Why our figures can differ from others. We build a district figure from the 100-metre grid of the 2022 census: each cell counts for as many people, buildings or dwellings as it holds. That is not the same as an average across municipalities, in which the smallest village counts as much as the district town. For home ownership the difference is large: averaged across municipalities the Hanover region would come to 61 per cent — although across Lower Saxony 48 per cent of dwellings are lived in by their owners, and the state capital lies in that district. Weighted it is 45 per cent, and that matches the official figures. So we show the weighted figure — and call it a Wahrgut analysis, because we formed it ourselves and it appears in no official publication in this form.

All information is provided without warranty: we have evaluated all data to the best of our knowledge and belief, but we can make mistakes.