Halle (Saale) as an investment location for real estate
226,767 inhabitants (31.12.2024) and regional center profile - stable demand base
Halle (Saale) has an official population of 226,767 as at 31.12.2024, providing a reliable 226k tenant base in the largest city in Saxony-Anhalt, while long series place the size in the 226k-244k corridor depending on the census/registry method. The city acts as a regional center with a university, hospitals and service clusters, which ensures diversified demand from students to young professionals to families and supports conservative business cases. Around 2,129,900 people lived in Saxony-Anhalt at the end of 2024, which embeds Halle in a sustainable regional structure with commuter links and demand buffers.
Accessibility and public transport: HAVAG, STADTBAHN expansion and transparent network maintenance
Hallesche Verkehrs-AG (HAVAG) operates a dense tram/bus network with regular timetable maintenance and published line/bus timetables - a structural rental lever for living close to the rail network in city and axis locations. The major timetable change on 2.9.2024 restored regular operations after construction work and optimized connections on all lines-a plus for planning reliability and tenant comfort. The network will be strategically expanded until 2035 via the STADTBAHN Halle program (including extensions on lines 3/8, new lines Heide-Nord and Industriestraße) in order to increase travel speed and comfort-a clear demand and exit lever along the future corridors. Current traffic reports show transparent construction management including SEV phases (e.g. Halle-Neustadt restrictions in summer 2025), which will maintain network resilience and accessibility despite measures.
Urban development and ESG framework: ISEK Halle 2025, inner city development and perspectives
The Halle 2025 Integrated Urban Development Concept (ISEK) has been politically approved and defines guidelines, spaces and measures up to 2025+ as the basis for accessing funding, redrawing the land use plan and coordinated urban renewal. Since 2013, the city centre has been supported by urban development programmes ("Aktive Zentren"/"Innenstadt"), which enhance the old town and adjacent districts and thus make repositioning, ground floor activation and ESG modernization in 1A/1B locations easier to plan. Forecast series discuss a long-term population decline for Saxony-Anhalt up to 2040, but Halle is structurally better placed compared to the rest of the state with urban anchors and recently stabilized offices - an environment in which core properties in city/railway station corridors with strong public transport links and value-add via insulation, windows, efficient heating/PV and floor plan/EC optimisation along prioritized axes enable convincing yield/exit profiles.
Standard land values for Halle (Saale)
The standard land values for Halle (Saale) can be found in the standard land values for Saxony-Anhalt here.