Experience finding plots by asking neighbors

Take a look, for example, here: or enter "Barthel" in the forum search: where he gets the must, I have already mentioned here several times. Or if it doesn’t have to be undeveloped: just follow the garbage collection or drive through the streets on emptying day – that’s the easiest way to see what is uninhabited. You can also find heirs through condolence addresses in obituaries who have no use for a house themselves. I generally expect the least from real estate agents: the land market is similar to the labor market in that market objects are typically not intermediary objects. Which in turn means: the idea of relying on the efficiency of "alternative" methods is exactly right.

Just ask nicely, most neighbors respond friendly. That's how we also got in touch with the owners of some properties. Whether they want to sell is another question. But I advise just to try. Nothing more than "no" can happen.

That surprises me a bit.
In the countryside, everyone knows everyone and also what they are (and what they are looking for).
It should be like that: shooting club, sports club, integration and enrichment of the village community, then it will work out

Not me. With us, there are also many developed plots, just not for sale. Three are being kept free for the grandson from Berlin, the next one doesn’t sell because he doesn’t want direct neighbors, the one after next doesn’t need the money, and there are no interests on the savings account, etc.
Clubs and such only help to a limited extent. Sure, Grandma Erna dies and the plots get sold by the grandson, then it only goes by word of mouth.

Not me. There are also many developed plots here, just not for sale. Three are being kept for the grandson from Berlin, the next one doesn’t sell because he doesn’t want direct neighbors, the one after that doesn’t need the money, and there are no interest earnings in the savings account, etc. Associations and the like only help to a limited extent. Sure, Grandma Erna dies and the plots are sold by the grandson, then it only goes through word of mouth

but exactly this village gossip and chatter informs you. It’s about the building gap “Hauptstraße/Kirchstrasse, do you know anything about it?” Instead of guessing on site at the intersection who you could ask or the neighbor being suspicious about such questions. And yes: exactly that one free plot among 10 unsellable ones is not sold to strangers, but rather to friends

No, but you have to know where the phone number of the grandson is when Erna dies and call before the funeral.

If you ask who owns the property between Huber and Maier, they say it belongs to [der Dorfname unaussprechlich], does not sell.