Buy & sell a swingers club

In a swingers club, exchange takes place between the guests themselves; the operator provides rooms, drinks and infrastructure. A permit under the Prostitutes Protection Act is therefore generally not applicable, as long as no sexual services are provided for payment. Catering law, building law and noise protection law apply instead.

Under planning law, such a business is classed, depending on its exact form, as an entertainment venue (Vergnügungsstätte). Whether it is permissible depends on the local development plan, usually unproblematic in a commercial zone, often not in mixed or residential areas. A binding answer comes from a preliminary planning enquiry.

Currently on offer is a detached commercial building in Villingen-Schwenningen: 576 sqm of lettable space on a 1,064 sqm freehold plot, nine rooms, seven of them with en-suite bathroom and WC, plus a Finnish sauna, an XXL whirlpool, a cold-plunge pool, a bar, a club room, a cinema room, a mirror room, a covered inner courtyard, eight parking spaces and two garage spaces. The building has been run continuously since 1991 as a naturist sauna club and prostitution establishment and is free of existing leases or tenancies. Purchase price €848,000.

A spacious bar area as a meeting point, wellness with sauna, whirlpool and showers, several differently themed private rooms, sufficient changing facilities with lockable lockers, a well-run reception, and enough parking on the property's own land.

This is exactly the room structure often found in existing club properties from the red-light segment. Converting one into a swingers-club concept is therefore often structurally straightforward, though the permit question remains untouched by that and must be asked afresh.

The shape of the plot matters more than the address. A driveway not visible from the road, parking behind the building and no residential development within earshot are the three features that in practice determine peace and quiet during operation.

The same applies at sale as for all properties in this class: no portal exposure, no street view in the listing, documents released only after identification. We approach interested parties directly.

Enquiries come in under buy a swingers club, sell a swingers club, buy a couples' club, or lease a swingers club. There is a linguistic difference between a swingers club and a couples' club (Pärchenclub), but the authorities generally treat both forms the same way legally.

The clean distinction from brothel operations matters: as long as no sexual services are offered for payment, the Prostitutes Protection Act does not apply, and this boundary should be explicitly set out in the business concept and observed in day-to-day practice.