What do the parties in Bavaria say on housing?

The AfD wants to make housing cheaper by lowering construction costs, simplifying Bavarian building law and removing taxes on real estate. The property tax (Grundsteuer) is to be abolished entirely, and the real estate transfer tax is to be dropped for owner-occupied homes. The party rejects rent caps and rent brakes and instead relies on more housing construction and support for home ownership.

The AfD wants housing to cost less. Building should become easier and cheaper. The property tax should end. People who buy a home to live in should pay no tax on the purchase. The party rejects limits on rents.

The AfD wants German citizens not to be disadvantaged in access to housing. State intervention in the housing market to accommodate asylum seekers is to stop. In the party's view, immigration makes housing scarce and drives up prices.

The AfD wants to put Germans first for housing. The state should stop finding homes for asylum seekers. German students should get dorm places first. The party says immigration makes homes scarce and costly.

The CSU wants to trigger more private investment in housing, mainly through better depreciation rules and tax deductions. It wants to block new requirements that make building more expensive and to ease conversions and company housing.

The CSU wants more homes to be built. People who build should pay less tax. There should be no new costly building rules. Building permits should be handled online. Companies should find it easier to build homes for their staff.

The CSU wants to merge Bavaria's three state housing companies into one and supply it with capital so it keeps building new homes. Funding for social housing is to continue permanently at a high level.

Bavaria owns three companies that build homes. The CSU wants to turn them into one. This company should get enough money. The state should keep spending a lot on low-cost housing. Rents in state-owned homes should not rise until 2025.

The CSU wants average earners to be able to afford their own home. It calls for an allowance on the real estate transfer tax for first-time owner-occupied purchases and wants to keep Bavaria's rate at 3.5 percent.

The CSU wants more people to be able to buy a home. Buyers pay a tax on the purchase. For a first home, part of the price should be tax-free. This tax should stay low in Bavaria. Families should get low-cost loans from the state.

The Free Voters want more people in Bavaria to own their homes and average earners to be able to afford it again. The state subsidy for social housing is to rise from €500 to €750 per square meter. The platform rejects stricter tenancy law, which the party says drives up prices, and a Grundsteuer C (a property tax on undeveloped building land).

The Free Voters want more people to own a house or apartment. The state should give more money for social housing. Building should become easier. Landlords should get more rights. There should be no new tax on unbuilt land.

The Greens want to replace the cycle of demolition and new construction with a culture of conversion. New buildings would in future only be built with recycled and sustainable materials. Bavaria's building code would become a „Umbauordnung“ (conversion code).

The Greens would rather convert old buildings than tear them down. New buildings should only use materials that are good for the environment. That includes recycled materials. The building rules in Bavaria would be changed for this.

Given high construction costs and a shortage of skilled workers, the Greens want new approaches to affordable housing. A building type „E“ would allow construction with fewer standards, and the requirement to provide car parking spaces would be suspended. Less red tape and digital procedures are also planned.

Building is expensive and skilled workers are missing. So the Greens want to make building simpler. A new building type would have fewer rules. Builders would no longer have to build parking spaces. Building offices should work digitally.

The Greens want to create new housing mainly by building upward and densifying within existing towns. Adding stories and converting attics would be subsidized and approved more easily. The reasons given are Bavaria's high land consumption and savings on land costs.

Every day, many fields and meadows in Bavaria disappear under concrete. So the Greens want to build higher. Buildings should get more floors. Getting a permit for this should be easier. Cities should also become greener.

The Greens want to curb speculation with land. They plan a Grundsteuer C (a property tax on building land) that gives municipalities a tool to steer undeveloped plots. The municipal right of first refusal would also be secured and a state fund for land acquisition set up.

Some people buy building land and wait until it gets more expensive. The Greens want to make that harder. Towns should be able to charge their own tax on empty building land. A state fund helps towns buy land.

The Greens want more barrier-free housing so that people can live independently regardless of age or disability. The building code would set stricter quotas, conversions would get more funding, and shared housing for young and old would be supported. According to the platform, Bavaria lacks about 2.9 million suitable homes.

Bavaria lacks many homes without barriers. The Greens want more of these homes. New buildings should have more homes for wheelchair users. Converting old homes should get more money. Old and young people should also be able to live together.

The Greens want to create 10,000 new social housing units every year that stay rent-restricted for at least 40 years. The state of Bavaria would align its land policy with the common good and hand out its own land only under long-term ground leases. In the party's view, land is not a commodity.

The Greens want 10,000 new social housing units every year. These homes should stay cheap for at least 40 years. Bavaria should no longer sell its land. It should only lease it for a long time. Housing cooperatives should get more money.

The Greens want to curb rent increases more strongly in tight housing markets. The Mietpreisbremse (rent brake) would apply permanently, and the cap that limits rent increases in existing leases would be lowered. Municipalities would get more tools against the misuse of housing for other purposes.

The Greens want rents to rise more slowly. The rent brake should apply forever. It limits the rent in a new lease. Landlords should be allowed to raise rents by less. Rental homes should not turn into condos so easily.

The Greens also want to support home ownership by lowering the extra costs of buying. The real estate transfer tax would drop substantially for a first owner-occupied home, and broker fees would be paid by whoever hires the broker. A bonus would reward renovating and using existing buildings in town centers.

The Greens want to make buying a first home cheaper. The tax on the purchase should drop a lot. Whoever hires the broker should pay the broker. People who renovate an old house in town should get a bonus. Empty homes should be rented out again.

The Greens want to launch a modernization program for all social housing units in Bavaria and invest 500 million euros a year in it. Oil and gas heating systems are to be replaced and buildings retrofitted to protect people on low incomes from high heating costs.

Heating should be affordable. So the Greens want to renovate all social housing in Bavaria. Old oil and gas heaters will be removed. The buildings should use less energy. The party wants to spend 500 million euros every year on this.

The Greens want to let rural municipalities issue simple building orders so that ready-to-build plots are developed quickly. Municipalities are also to get more freely usable money, for example through regional budgets, and funding procedures are to be simplified.

Some plots in villages stay empty for a long time. The Greens want towns to be able to require building there. That way less new land is needed. Towns should also get more money of their own. To get it, they must work with neighboring towns.

The SPD wants to give land owned by the Free State of Bavaria to municipalities and housing cooperatives so that affordable housing can be built there. It sets a target of 80,000 affordable homes per year.

The state of Bavaria owns land. The SPD wants to give this land to cities and towns. Housing cooperatives should get land too. 80,000 low-cost homes should be built there each year.

The SPD wants to enshrine a social land law and a public-interest approach to state property in the Bavarian constitution. The state would stop selling its own land and buildings and lease them out under long-term ground leases instead. A state land fund would help municipalities acquire land.

The SPD wants Bavaria to stop selling its land. The state should lease the land instead, mostly to towns and cities. A new land fund should help towns buy land. This is meant to create affordable homes.

The SPD wants to introduce the Grundsteuer C (a property tax on undeveloped building plots) in Bavaria so that vacant, ready-to-build land is used for housing. It also wants to streamline the Bavarian building code and align it with the national model code to speed up construction of affordable homes.

The SPD wants a tax on empty building plots. Owners should then be more likely to build homes there. Building rules in Bavaria should become simpler. Building permits should be handled digitally. This is meant to make building faster.

The SPD wants the construction sector to contribute to making Bavaria climate neutral by 2035. To that end, sustainable and reusable building materials would be promoted, and renovation would take priority over demolition and new construction.

The SPD wants building to harm the climate less. Bavaria should support wood and other sustainable building materials. Old buildings should be renovated rather than torn down. Used building materials should be passed on through exchanges.

The SPD wants to support socially oriented housing construction with a billion euros of state money and stop cutting state funds whenever the federal government raises its own. Subsidized apartments would stay rent-restricted for 60 years. Cooperatives, municipal housing companies, and families buying a home would also receive support.

The SPD wants to spend more money on affordable homes. Bavaria should provide one billion euros for this. Subsidized homes should stay affordable for 60 years. Homes for trainees, students, and older people should also be built.

The SPD wants no rent increases in state-owned apartments for one legislative term and will press the rest of the housing sector for a temporary rent moratorium. It also wants to ban the conversion of rental apartments into condominiums in tight markets and to act more firmly against the misuse of housing.

The SPD wants no rent increases in state-owned homes for five years. Other landlords should do the same for a while. In expensive areas, rental homes should not be turned into owned apartments. Towns should get better tools against vacation rentals.