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© 2025 IamExpat Media B.V.
Apr 6, 2025
Olivia Logan

Editor at IamExpat Media

Editor for Germany at IamExpat Media. Olivia first came to Germany in 2013 to work as an Au Pair. Since studying English Literature and German in Scotland, Freiburg and Berlin she has worked as a features journalist and news editor.Read more

Germany’s most expensive house sits on an island on the outskirts of Berlin, is worth nearly 80 million euros and is currently for sale.

Germany’s most expensive house worth around 78,7 million euros

Germany’s most expensive house has gone on sale on the luxury housing platform Christie's Real Estate. The house, which is worth around 78,7 million euros, is located on the Schwanenwerder island, close to Strandbad Wansee, in the southwestern Steglitz-Zehlendorf district of Berlin.

The property and surrounding garden spread across 16.038 square feet, has nine bedrooms and eight bathrooms. According to Christie’s the house “goes beyond boundaries in every respect” and “offers an almost surreal setting with its private waterfront, a jetty, a slipway and perfect south-west orientation”. 

The property was built in 2009 and said to have been commissioned by US actor Brad Pitt. Locals on the island are said to have criticised its design, saying the house looks too much like a bunker. Can’t find anywhere in the Ringbahn? Schedule a viewing on the Christie’s website.

Who can afford Germany’s most expensive house?

According to UBS’ Global Wealth Report 2024, the number of millionaires in Germany is increasing swiftly. In 2023, 2,82 million people in Germany had assets and income worth at least one million US dollars, though a far smaller proportion would have the funds for Christie’s 78,7-million euro property.

In Berlin, there are 58 millionaires for every 100.000 inhabitants, making the capital only the eighth-highest German city for its proportion of millionaires per 100.000 inhabitants. Hamburg (one millionaire per every 360 inhabitants), Düsseldorf (171 for every 100.000) and Munich (164 for every 100.000) are the cities with the highest proportion of millionaires.

According to a 2023 report by Berliner Morgenpost, if wealth distribution determined population distribution across the 16 German federal states, half of the entire population would be squeezed into the country’s second smallest state, Saarland. The wealthy half would inhabit the other 15 states.

Thumb image credit: Sina Ettmer Photography / Shutterstock.com

By Olivia Logan