Why use the Destatis / ECB index
The Häuserpreisindex (HPI) is Germany's official residential property price index. It's compiled by Destatis (the Federal Statistical Office) and published quarterly, with breakdowns by region (7 major regions) and property type (existing vs new construction, single-family vs apartments).
The ECB distributes the harmonized version of the Destatis HPI through its Statistical Data Warehouse, which is what WealthMap uses for German property tracking.
This is the index economists, the Bundesbank, and the ECB use to assess the German housing market. It's the right benchmark for tracking the value of a property you already own.
How WealthMap tracks German property
Enter your German property: region (Berlin, München, Hamburg, etc.), property type (apartment or single-family), purchase date, purchase price. WealthMap applies the Destatis HPI change for your region and property type since your purchase date.
Example: a Berlin apartment bought in October 2018 for €420,000. The Berlin apartment HPI rose roughly 45.8% by January 2026. WealthMap shows your current value as €612,400 with a +45.8% gain.
Data is pulled from the ECB Statistical Data Warehouse on-device. No subscription. No third-party scraping. Your property data never leaves your phone.
Regional breakdowns
Destatis publishes the HPI for 7 major German regions and the 7 largest cities individually. WealthMap supports all of them: Berlin, Hamburg, München, Köln, Frankfurt am Main, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, plus seven regional aggregates.
If your property is in a smaller town, WealthMap uses the appropriate regional aggregate automatically.
Beyond German property
WealthMap supports 16 currencies and 40+ countries. If you're a German resident with property abroad — a holiday home in Mallorca, a flat in Vienna, an apartment in Prague — WealthMap tracks each property against its own country's official index. Your dashboard aggregates everything in EUR (or your base currency of choice).