Konzeptvergabe (Konzeptausschreibung, Konzeptverfahren) is how a German municipality allocates its own land without an auction: the price is fixed in advance and bidders compete only on the quality of the Nutzungskonzept. It is the most important land instrument for co-ops and Baugemeinschaften, because a group can never outbid a developer on price but can outbid it on concept.
- Mechanics: a council resolution sets Grundvoraussetzungen (rent tiers, social mix, ecology) and Auswahlkriterien; bids are scored on a published Bewertungsmatrix; the winner signs a Kauf- or Erbbaurechtsvertrag with covenants entered in the Grundbuch.
- Legal basis: municipal self-government over municipal assets, against the Gemeindeordnung duty to realise the Verkehrswert. The accepted route is to price the covenants in — the below-market price is the consideration for bound rents and use obligations, usually wrapped in a städtebaulicher Vertrag (§ 11 BauGB) — and to keep below-market land to an undertaking inside EU state-aid limits by tendering openly.
- Criteria that favour groups: long rent binding, self-administration, shared space, inclusion, ecology, Realisierungssicherheit — and in several cities tenders restricted to Genossenschaften and Mietshäuser-Syndikat projects.
- Before applying: a legal form (or a signed pre-form), a financing concept, and two to three months per tender.
Open question (not a fact): whether haushaltsrechtliche Verkehrswert duties bar below-market Konzeptvergabe was not resolvable against a citable 2024 BGH decision on 2026-09-10. Treat Festpreis below Verkehrswert as council-resolution practice, not settled case law.
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- erbbaurecht — the tenure most Konzeptvergaben now use instead of sale
- muenchen-konzeptausschreibung — 20–40 % of city plots reserved for co-ops and Syndikat projects
- leipzig-konzeptverfahren-erbbaurecht — Festpreis + 110-year Erbbaurecht at 2.5 %
- frankfurt-konzeptverfahren — 15 % of new Bauland by Konzeptverfahren
- koeln-erbbaurecht-konzeptvergabe — reduced Erbbauzins as the subsidy
- tuebingen-baugemeinschaften — the original Tübinger Modell
- freiburg-baugruppen — a whole new district allocated by concept
- dresden-konzeptausschreibung — sale by Konzeptausschreibung, no Erbbaurecht
- heidelberg-konzeptverfahren — concept allocation on conversion sites
- berlin-konzeptverfahren-erbbaurecht — the city-state version (BIM)
- hamburg-agentur-fuer-baugemeinschaften — Hamburg’s Konzeptvergabe plus Anhandgabe
- gbr-baugemeinschaft — the form most groups bid in
- eg-cooperative — the form most restricted tenders require
- belegungsbindung — the covenant that buys the price reduction