How Stadt und Land lets its flats

In short

1. Request the flat with the form on its page at stadtundland.de. You need no account and no documents.
2. The draw. A random generator picks several of the requests for a group viewing. If you aren't picked, an email „Neue Nachricht“ often says so.
3. Book your slot from the email „Einladung zum Besichtigungstermin“, through „Termin wählen“. The invitation alone is no appointment.
4. The viewing. Bring your ID card.
5. The self-disclosure and your documents. After the viewing, the email „Besichtigungstermin“ asks for both. Without them, your application isn't considered.
6. The decision and the contract. Stadt und Land's staff check your documents and decide. The credit check comes just before the contract.

Sources: Stadt und Land, how to get a flat · Stadt und Land's emails to an applicant, September to November 2026

When Stadt und Land's flats go online

In the last 13 weeks, 411 of Stadt und Land's flats went online on its own website, as FlatStrike saw them, in 181 different hours: 99% of them from Monday to Friday, the most on Wednesdays (28%).

56% of those hours were between 11:00 and 16:00. Each hour counts once, however many flats went online in it. If you look for its flats yourself, look on weekdays between 11:00 and 16:00. These are past weeks, not a schedule of Stadt und Land's.

Source: FlatStrike, when each of Stadt und Land's flats first appeared on its website

1. The request

Every flat's page at stadtundland.de has a form under „Kontakt aufnehmen“ (get in touch). It is run by Wohnungshelden, a letting service, and needs no account. Besides your name and email address, it asks:

• how many people move in, and how many of them are children;
• from when you can rent the flat;
• whether the monthly warm rent is at most 35% of your household's monthly net income, yes or no;
• how you heard of Stadt und Land.

A flat that needs a WBS asks about yours too (see "Flats that need a WBS" below). Before you send the form, check the flat's conditions, such as a WBS. No documents go with the request.

Within minutes, the email „Formularbestätigung“ (form confirmation) says your request arrived. Sometimes „Bitte bestätigen Sie Ihre Anfrage!“ (please confirm your request) comes first: then fill in the form through its blue button „Formular ausfüllen“, or your request isn't considered.

Sources: Stadt und Land, how to get a flat · the form on a flat's page at stadtundland.de · Stadt und Land's emails to an applicant, September to November 2026

2. The draw

Often very many people ask for one flat, so not everyone can see it. Stadt und Land collects the requests, then a random generator in its software picks a set number of them and invites them to a viewing. The draw decides only who may view: Stadt und Land doesn't let its flats by lottery.

If you aren't picked, Stadt und Land often writes to say so, in an email „Neue Nachricht“ (new message). An email with the same subject can also say that the flat is already let (bereits vergeben). With so many requests, Stadt und Land says, it doesn't answer questions about them.

Each flat has its own draw: the more flats you ask for, the more draws you are in.

Sources: Stadt und Land, how to get a flat · Senate Department for Urban Development, answer to written question 19/23026 · Stadt und Land's emails to an applicant, September to November 2026

3. Booking your slot

If you're drawn, the email „Einladung zum Besichtigungstermin“ (invitation to a viewing) comes. It is no appointment yet: choose one of the proposed times through its link „Termin wählen“ (choose a time).

The email names no deadline, but the places are limited. For its new buildings, Stadt und Land says the viewing slots go very fast and a flat's listing comes down once they are given. Choose your time soon.

Once you've chosen, „Terminbestätigung“ (appointment confirmed) gives the day, the time and the address, with a calendar file. Can't come? Change or cancel the time through its link „Termin ändern/absagen“. It is a group viewing (Sammelbesichtigung), so Stadt und Land offers no other date of your own.

Sources: Stadt und Land's emails to an applicant, October 2026 · Stadt und Land, Dröpkeweg · Stadt und Land, Johanna-Tesch-Straße

4. The viewing

About a day before, „Terminerinnerung“ (appointment reminder) comes.

Bring your ID card (Personalausweis) and show it to the person in charge. If someone else comes in your place, they need your written authority (Vollmacht): that way Stadt und Land makes sure only the people entitled to view the flat do.

Source: Stadt und Land's emails to an applicant, October 2026

5. The self-disclosure and your documents

Right after the viewing, an email comes with the subject „Besichtigungstermin“ (viewing appointment). If you want the flat, it asks you to fill in the self-disclosure form (Selbstauskunft) through its link „Formular ausfüllen“ and to upload every document needed. Otherwise Stadt und Land doesn't consider your application further.

The form is only for people who came to the viewing. The documents Stadt und Land names include proof of income, a letter from your landlord saying you owe no rent (Mietschuldenfreiheitsbescheinigung) and, for a flat that needs one, your WBS.

The email names no deadline, and it can arrive minutes after the viewing begins. Have the documents ready as files before you go. What goes in an application file is in our guide Applying for a flat.

Sources: Stadt und Land, how to get a flat · Stadt und Land's emails to an applicant, October 2026

6. The decision and the contract

Stadt und Land's staff check all the documents and decide who gets the flat. If it's you, you get a confirmation (Bestätigung zur Anmietung), Stadt und Land prepares the contract and agrees a day with you to sign it.

The credit check comes just before the contract. You may bring your own SCHUFA report first: a current one, made for renting, that can be verified online. Stadt und Land doesn't accept a screenshot, an expired report, or a full data copy that holds more than the check needs. Without a report it accepts, it may ask SCHUFA itself.

Sources: Stadt und Land, how to get a flat · Stadt und Land, privacy policy

Flats that need a WBS

A flat that needs a WBS names the kinds it takes in its form, such as „WBS 140 oder 100“. If you have one, the form asks when it was issued, until when it is valid and how many rooms it allows.

Berlin has five kinds, from WBS 100 to WBS 220, by the household's yearly net income. A WBS is usually valid for a year and must still be valid when you move in. Some of Stadt und Land's new buildings, such as the one at Dröpkeweg in Neukölln, are let only to WBS holders.

Not sure whether you'd get one? Our WBS calculator works it out in a minute.

Sources: the form on a flat's page at stadtundland.de · Stadt und Land, WBS · Stadt und Land, Dröpkeweg

No money, and the real emails

Stadt und Land asks no commission and never asks you to sign a pre-contract (Vorvertrag). People sometimes pose as agents for Stadt und Land and ask for a commission: don't pay them.

Its flats are listed on stadtundland.de, on inberlinwohnen.de and on the usual portals. Its emails about a request come from do-not-reply@wohnungshelden.de, in the name of "STADT UND LAND Wohnbauten-Gesellschaft mbH", and their links lead to app.wohnungshelden.de. Most of them have a link to withdraw your interest once you no longer want the flat.

Sources: Stadt und Land, how to get a flat · Stadt und Land, new buildings · Stadt und Land's emails to an applicant, September to November 2026

Questions people ask about Stadt und Land

Does Stadt und Land ask for a SCHUFA report?

Only just before the contract: that's when Stadt und Land checks your credit. You may first bring your own current SCHUFA report, made for renting and verifiable online; otherwise it may ask SCHUFA itself (more on this).

Do I need a WBS for a Stadt und Land flat?

Only some of its flats need a WBS, and Stadt und Land asks you to check before you send a request. It lets its new building at Dröpkeweg only to WBS holders, and about half the floor space at Johanna-Tesch-Straße. If a flat needs one, its form asks about your WBS, and after the viewing it goes in with your documents (more on this).

Do I need an account to apply to Stadt und Land?

No: you request a flat directly with the form on its page at stadtundland.de, with no account. The form and the emails after it come from Wohnungshelden, a letting service; their links lead to app.wohnungshelden.de (more on this).

Does Stadt und Land answer every request?

It can invite only some: an automated random draw picks several requests for a viewing. If you aren't picked, it often writes to say so, in an email „Neue Nachricht“ (new message). For its new buildings, it asks you not to contact its service offices or letting teams (more on this).

What happens after my request?

If you're drawn, the email „Einladung zum Besichtigungstermin“ (invitation to a viewing) comes, and you choose one of its times. If you still want the flat after the viewing, you fill in the self-disclosure (Selbstauskunft) and upload your documents through a link; then Stadt und Land's staff decide and agree a day with you to sign the contract (more on this).

Which documents does Stadt und Land want?

Only after the viewing, through a link in an email: documents such as proof of income, a letter from your landlord saying you owe no rent (Mietschuldenfreiheitsbescheinigung) and, for a flat that needs one, your WBS. No documents go with the request (more on this).

Sources: Stadt und Land, how to get a flat · Stadt und Land, privacy policy · Stadt und Land, Dröpkeweg · Stadt und Land, Johanna-Tesch-Straße · the form on a flat's page at stadtundland.de · Stadt und Land's emails to an applicant, September to November 2026