Sell the asset or take more credit?

So one should artificially keep building land scarce and hold it back for tax-free speculative purposes so that the rabble remains nicely in their cramped rental apartments and the rents remain exorbitantly high or continue to rise?

It is a political opinion that one may have within the framework of the Basic Law.

There would also be the possibility that the state builds apartments, then rents would decrease if there were enough apartments. This does not require building land suitable for single-family houses. Many buildings in the city could simply be added onto.

Now all the land hoarders are crawling out of their holes. I don't want to forbid it at all, I just want to make it financially less attractive :)

At the moment, it is an almost tax-free asset with extremely high returns; after introducing the special tax, it would be comparable to other investments.

By the way, I don't own any undeveloped land and am far from wealthy. I still have an opinion :-)

Oh? You have an obligation to clear and everything, pay property tax for it. Possibly levies for roads, etc. If I put gold, Bitcoin... somewhere, I don't pay anything for it. If someone prefers to invest their money in land and property, that's okay. The state regulates far too much and reaches into everyone's pockets everywhere. But here it's about an individual decision. If the plots are not needed and you could use the money for something more sensible, I am in favor of selling.

Now all the property shorts are crawling out of their holes. I don't want to forbid it either, I just want to make it financially less attractive :)

What do you mean by property shorts?
Often it is like with us or the OP, all the fuss was inherited. And inheritance tax has already been paid enough. Why should I sell now?
a) we don't need the money at the MOMENT
b) one of our daughters might want to build later, or maybe we want a smaller bungalow as a retirement home

Yes, on the one hand I agree, it is an investment, but also an option for later. Bad for those who don't have it, but I don't have a guilty conscience that we do.

Hi, what’s wrong with taking care of our retirement early? If we had enough money, then we would have:

[*]A. built immediately on the coast back then as a holiday second home [*]B. house on the coast as the primary residence, no longer work :), thereby freeing up our (rental) apartment in NRW. unfortunately not possible, since everything has to be financed as well. [*]C. possibly sold the rented house in H. [*]D. bought a large plot of land in some metropolitan area and built multi-family houses and rented them out with maximum returns.

Where would new living space have been created (except in D.)? well, and with B. - but unfortunately not possible. Regards Olli

And inheritance tax has already been paid enough.

No, the allowances are too high for that.