Residential property price index in Frankfurt
Residential property price index in Frankfurt stood at 98.6 in Q2 2026. It is one of the indicators in the vdp property price indices table (Value · Quarterly), with a complete series running from Q1 2003 to Q2 2026. The complete series with an interactive chart, free to download.
This indicator in the vdp property price indices table
| Indicator | Q2-2026 | Q1-2026 | Q4-2025 | Q3-2025 | Q2-2025 | Q1-2025 | Q4-2024 | Q3-2024 | Q2-2024 | Q1-2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frankfurt | |||||||||||
| Residential property | 98.6 | 98.6 | 97.6 | 96.5 | 96.3 | 94.8 | 92.4 | 91.9 | 90.5 | 90.1 | |
| Owner-occupied housing | 95.3 | 95.4 | 95 | 93.9 | 93.8 | 92.4 | 91.3 | 91.1 | 89.7 | 89.5 |
Understanding residential property price index in Frankfurt
Broader than any single housing category, this aggregate Frankfurt indicator merges owner-occupied dwellings with institutional residential rental buildings. The series integrates single-family houses, freehold condominiums, and entire multi-family residential blocks into a citywide composite benchmark. Commercial office buildings, logistics facilities, and retail complexes are excluded, focusing exclusively on properties dedicated to permanent residential living. By combining consumer home purchases with commercial investor acquisitions, this overarching index provides a balanced measure of residential property price movements across the municipal area, utilizing hedonic regression to strip out changes in property quality over time.
Analyzing year-on-year shifts provides the most reliable evaluation of residential property values, muting seasonal transaction lulls, winter registration pauses, and quarterly fluctuations in deed completions. Initial quarterly figures are published on a preliminary basis and undergo planned recalculations as additional notarized transaction records are integrated into the source database from mortgage lenders. Observers must recognize that because this headline index combines diverse sub-sectors, stability in the composite figure can mask divergent price movements occurring between individual owner-occupied apartments and commercial apartment buildings.
Frequently asked questions
- Which residential market sectors are combined within this Frankfurt composite index?
- The series combines single-family houses, freehold condominiums, and investor-owned multi-family apartment buildings within Frankfurt.
- Are commercial office towers or retail properties included in this metric?
- No, this index is strictly confined to residential real estate and excludes all commercial, retail, and office properties.
- How does this headline measure differ from the owner-occupied housing index?
- It incorporates institutional multi-family rental buildings alongside the private owner-occupied houses and apartments captured in the owner-occupied series.