Property and Real Estate Agent

Or you wait long enough, the broker contract will eventually expire. I would find out who the owner is somehow, for example by asking neighbors, and talk to him about it.

Exactly, wait until the property is gone then ;)

Our property was "nitpicked" for 8 years... you could have waited a long time for a contract to expire.

If he doesn't have to sell, then your chances are bad. We have had plots of land for sale for years that are too expensive for the location, but the price doesn't change because the seller doesn't have to sell. Eventually, someone comes along for whom it fits, and then they're gone. And the whole price level changes. Five years ago they were way too expensive, now they're just expensive... eventually it fits.

If you don't have anything else and it is THE plot of land for you, then you have to bite the bullet or look for something else.

It always depends, before building we wanted to buy a house, the first price was €425,000 (brokered by the Sparkasse), which was way too expensive for us. After half a year, the house disappeared from the listings on immowelt and others. We thought, yeah, someone must have bought it (we checked offers daily) and lo and behold, after a few weeks the house was back in the listings but already at the price of €379,000, now from a different broker. I knew where the house was located and went there the next day. The couple was going through a divorce, the woman wanted to build new (she already had everything ready with the building permit and so on, just had to "get rid" of the house) and they hadn’t signed a contract with the new broker yet (it was supposed to happen in a few days). We could buy the house without a broker, they agreed to that. Ultimately, we decided against it because for that money you can already build new here with us.

Posting the same question in multiple forums is very bad style.

Posting the same question in multiple forums is very bad style.

Why? If I hope for several different opinions from multiple forums, I don't necessarily find it bad style to post the same question simultaneously multiple times.

When I compare prices, I don't just go to one store either... ;)