Find land - real estate agent, place an ad?

For us, it was clear from the beginning that we would only build if we found a plot of land in our village.

Internet - 3 plots for sale - on the main street, away from all friends and only through developers - no, then not.
Ask the municipality - nothing - no more plots
ask around - nothing - no one was selling
Asked the mayor - hit - someone who lives abroad would still like to sell their 2 plots. One of them is now ours.

Immowelt, Immoscout, Immonet and Immopool are the bigger ones that you should always keep searching through. Also, feel free to talk to the banks. Sometimes they are the first to know when someone wants or has to sell. Also, simply drive through the residential areas and look out for gaps. If you find something, ask the neighbors who it belongs to and see if the owner wants to sell. We ourselves didn’t want to build at all. For 2 years we searched in vain for a used property. Then we were at a local construction fair. However, there was nothing on offer here either. At the coffee stand, I got into conversation with a gentleman who turned out to be an employee of the building authority. He told me that the response at the fair was very restrained. But that was probably because there are currently few good plots still buildable. However, a decision had just been made to develop a planned building area soon. Only that had not yet become known and it was missed to publish it in the newspaper the week before. I was actually not interested at all, but the gentleman was probably a bit bored and insisted on showing us the map with the plots. When we looked at the map, my wife and I immediately noticed a plot that we really liked. “If you could get that plot, I could even imagine building,” was my quote and my wife nodded. He looked and said that it probably wasn’t a plot owned by the city, but belonged to a private person who had been assigned this plot through a compensation procedure. He said that the owners live further away and might possibly want to sell. He looked up the number in his folder and gave it to us. My wife called there in the evening right away. Still that same weekend we agreed on the price and then bought the plot. Only then did we even start dealing with the topic of building a house. Sometimes you just need a bit of luck...

Local model - otherwise nothing works here at all. Vacant lots and the like have already been requested dozens of times by dozens of people. If you are looking for something in the Munich metropolitan area, you need a lot of luck and good friends who give you the tip first,...

We found our dream plot in September 2013.

Before that, we searched for 2 years. We absolutely wanted a plot with a meadow view without neighbors, but also not in the middle of nowhere.

We checked various online portals almost daily, approached pretty much all local real estate agents, banks, and construction companies. We talked to all the farmers in our desired area, either to see if they had something themselves or maybe knew someone who still had building land. We placed classified ads in newspapers and put up flyers. We regularly rode our bikes around the area and looked for free plots. Then we often rang the neighbors' doorbells and asked who owned the land next door.

So pretty much the whole program.

In the end, we found something in the regional newspaper. There was a relatively hidden private ad. And after a quick check, we snapped it up immediately.

The more specific the wishes or personal demands on the plot are, the more you should invest in the search. According to the motto: "Fortune favors the diligent."
But also don’t become impatient. You don’t want to eventually buy a plot out of desperation that turns out to be a poor compromise, just because you finally want to build.