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If you want to know the value of your property, you can apply for a market value appraisal from a land value appraisal committee.

You can apply to the Lower Saxony State Office for the Preservation of Monuments for grants for conservation or care measures on cultural monuments in Lower Saxony. The measures may not have started yet and must be approved under building or monument law.

You must apply for a certificate of seclusion if you wish to establish a separate property or assert a permanent right of residence.

The responsibility for hazards from explosive ordnance during construction work lies with the property owners or persons commissioning the construction. Even in cases of suspicion, measures must be initiated, such as a preliminary investigation of explosive ordnance (evaluation of war aerial photographs).

If you make premium-preferred expenditures to promote housing construction, you can apply for a housing construction premium.

If you want to build, purchase or modernise your own home/apartment, you can claim housing subsidies if the requirements are met. The state in which you want to implement your project is responsible for social housing promotion.

For cultural assets worthy of protection, you can apply to the competent certifying authority for a certificate for the tax office on production and conservation measures and their costs.

If you would like to receive information about a monument, you can apply to the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments.

If there is a localized right on a property (e.g. right of way) and this property is divided, it can be certified that this right only applies to certain partial areas, while other areas of the property are not encumbered.

Inspection engineers carry out sovereign building inspection tasks on behalf of the building supervisory authority. Inspection experts are commissioned by the building owner under private law.

Have you provided construction services for a company or a public corporation and construction withholding tax has been withheld on your consideration? Then, under certain conditions, you can apply for a refund of the tax deduction.

If you want to subdivide your parcel ("turn 1 into 2"), a subdivision measurement is required.

Standard land values help you to answer the question of the approximate value of the land in the area you are inquiring about.

The project and development plan can be inspected by anyone.

The Lower Saxony appraisal committees for land values ensure property market transparency for all interested persons through land value determinations as well as market observations and analyses. Get information about the services offered here.

If you carry out a legal transaction that relates to a domestic property, it is subject to real estate transfer tax.

If you have concluded a land lease agreement, you must report this to the competent authority within one month.

Anyone who can demonstrate a legitimate interest may inspect the register of building encumbrances and obtain copies.

The municipal right of first refusal enables the municipality to acquire land for urban development purposes in order to influence its future structural and other use.

Construction sites of a certain size must be notified (pre-announced) in writing to the competent authority at least 2 weeks before they are set up.

You need planning permission for your building project. To do so, you must submit a building application to the (lower) building supervisory authority or the responsible building authority (city, municipality or district). An official site plan from the real estate register is required for this building application.

Are you providing a construction service in Germany to another contractor or to a legal entity under public law and they have to pay a construction withholding tax on the consideration? Then you can apply for an exemption from tax liability.