Buy & sell special-use properties

Value here depends less on a price-per-square-metre figure than on three other factors: the planning-law permissibility at the specific location, the structural suitability for the intended use, and a circle of buyers that is small and barely reachable through public portals.

A second point is regularly misunderstood: official operating permits are tied to the operator and their business concept, not to the plot of land. What transfers with the property are the structural and planning-law conditions that make it possible to apply for such a permit at all. Explaining this distinction clearly is part of how we market such properties.

Third is third-party usability. Houses with many individual rooms and en-suite bathrooms can generally also be considered for hospitality and related concepts. Whether a change of use is approvable is decided by the building authority on a case-by-case basis — the first step is a written preliminary planning enquiry, not a purchase contract.

Anyone looking to buy or sell a strip club faces the same starting point as with any other club property: no public listing, a narrow circle of buyers, and a permit situation tied to the location and the operator. Selling a strip club means passing on the structural and planning-law conditions, not the trade licence. Buying a strip club means first checking the plot's permitted use before negotiating price or operator concept. As a specialised real estate agent, we support both sides and keep the property off the portals until a serious prospective buyer receives the documents after a preliminary conversation.

Anyone wanting to buy or sell a special-use property is operating in a market without a portal. Properties range from brothels and places of prostitution to laufhäuser, FKK and sauna clubs, nightclubs, strip clubs and table-dance clubs. Anyone wanting to buy a red-light property first checks location and planning-law permissibility. Anyone wanting to sell a red-light commercial property needs a direct route to a manageable circle of serious prospective buyers. The same applies to club properties and erotic properties. Erotic clubs, table-dance clubs and sauna clubs can only be sold when structural suitability, the permit framework and discretion align. We broker on both sides — for owners who want to sell a special-use property, and for buyers and investors who specifically want to buy a club, brothel or erotic property. For every property, discretion, permit status, location and the limited circle of buyers remain the factors that determine success or failure.

Our brokerage activity extends across the entire German-speaking countries. In Germany that includes Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, Hesse, Saxony, Brandenburg, Thuringia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony-Anhalt, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saarland, Schleswig-Holstein, Berlin and Lower Saxony. In Austria we support owners and buyers in Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Tyrol, Styria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Salzburg, Vorarlberg and Vienna. In Switzerland we cover the cantons of Bern, Vaud, Aargau, Zurich, Graubünden, Valais, Fribourg, Solothurn, Ticino, Lucerne, Thurgau, St. Gallen, Basel-Landschaft, Geneva, Jura, Schwyz, Schaffhausen, Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Uri, Neuchâtel, Zug, Nidwalden, Appenzell Innerrhoden, Obwalden, Glarus and Basel-Stadt. Regardless of the federal state, the same standards apply to every special-use property: planning-law permissibility, structural suitability and a confidential, directly approached circle of buyers.

We are specifically active in the largest cities of the German-speaking region. From Germany that includes Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Cologne, Frankfurt am Main, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, Leipzig, Dortmund, Essen, Bremen, Dresden, Hanover, Nuremberg, Duisburg, Bochum, Wuppertal, Bielefeld, Bonn, Münster, Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Augsburg, Wiesbaden, Gelsenkirchen, Mönchengladbach, Braunschweig, Kiel, Aachen, Chemnitz, Halle (Saale), Magdeburg, Krefeld, Freiburg im Breisgau, Lübeck, Mainz, Erfurt, Oberhausen, Saarbrücken and Mülheim an der Ruhr. From Austria we support Vienna, Graz, Linz, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, Villach and Wels. From Switzerland we support Zurich, Geneva, Basel, Bern, Lausanne, Winterthur, Lucerne, St. Gallen, Lugano, Biel, Thun and Köniz. In each of these cities we first check location and planning-law permissibility before confidentially marketing a special-use property to a limited circle of buyers.

No portal listing with a street-view photo, no signage, no enquiries from the neighbourhood. We approach operators, investors and tenants directly and only release documents after a conversation and identification. Viewings take place strictly by appointment — that is how a real estate agent who values discretion over portal visibility works.

We do not claim or advertise turnover or visitor figures. Whatever operating documentation exists is shown to a serious prospective buyer during due diligence. We label yield figures with their source; they are calculated values, not a forecast or a guaranteed property feature.