When are flats listed in Berlin?
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We recorded 3,172 new listings from 10 Berlin landlords and noted when each one went online, between 25 May 2026 and 7 August 2026. The result is a guide to when checking is worth your time: almost everything happens on weekdays between 10:00 and 16:00 — and two landlords ignore that completely.
The hour of the day
59% of all listings appear between 10:00 and 16:00 — six hours out of twenty-four. The single busiest hour is 11:00 with 11.4%. Between 19:00 and 07:00 almost nothing happens, and what does comes from two landlords in particular (below).
The day of the week
At weekends the market stops. Saturday and Sunday together account for 2.8% of all listings. If the weekend is the only time you have to search, you are searching during the quietest hours of the week.
Every landlord has its own window
There is no shared rhythm. degewo publishes in the morning, Gewobag in the afternoon, Berlinovo puts almost everything online at 11:00. And two landlords sit entirely outside office hours, where nobody is awake to look.
The flats nobody sees
Two landlords publish exactly when nobody is looking:
- Vonovia — 84% between 02:00 and 08:00, peaking at 04:00
- Adler — 70% at 15:00, 30% at 23:00, nothing else
Adler is the extreme case: 70% of its listings appear at 15:00, 30% at 23:00, and not a single one in the other twenty-two hours. That is not a distribution, it is two batch jobs. We checked whether it was an artefact of our own observation: we look at Adler every five minutes, around the clock, and 38 of roughly 28,000 checks did not complete. The pattern is real.
So when should you check?
Searching by hand, you get the most out of the windows above: weekdays around 11:00 and again around 15:00 puts you in front of most landlords. For Vonovia you would have to look at 4 in the morning; for Adler at 23:00.
That is where doing it by hand ends. Ten landlords, ten different rhythms, two of them overnight — and according to our other study, almost one in four listings is offline again within four hours. WohnAutopilot checks every few minutes, including at 04:00.
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Listings per hour (table)
| Hour | Listings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | 4 | 0.1% |
| 01:00 | 14 | 0.4% |
| 02:00 | 26 | 0.8% |
| 03:00 | 25 | 0.8% |
| 04:00 | 41 | 1.3% |
| 05:00 | 25 | 0.8% |
| 06:00 | 16 | 0.5% |
| 07:00 | 60 | 1.9% |
| 08:00 | 121 | 3.8% |
| 09:00 | 168 | 5.3% |
| 10:00 | 274 | 8.6% |
| 11:00 | 362 | 11.4% |
| 12:00 | 311 | 9.8% |
| 13:00 | 267 | 8.4% |
| 14:00 | 312 | 9.8% |
| 15:00 | 349 | 11% |
| 16:00 | 237 | 7.5% |
| 17:00 | 220 | 6.9% |
| 18:00 | 161 | 5.1% |
| 19:00 | 46 | 1.5% |
| 20:00 | 27 | 0.9% |
| 21:00 | 12 | 0.4% |
| 22:00 | 23 | 0.7% |
| 23:00 | 71 | 2.2% |
Method
The data. 3,172 listings that appeared between 25 May 2026 and 7 August 2026, across 10 landlords.
The first day is left out on purpose. When we began watching on 24 May 2026, a lot was already online. Those 286 listings carry our start time rather than their own, so they are not counted. With them, the busiest hour would read 15:00 instead of 11:00, and 18% instead of 11% — that would have been the headline, and it would only have described the day we started.
How precise the hour is. We record when a listing first became visible to us; no landlord publishes the moment it actually went live. We look at each landlord regularly — how often is shown in the table above. So a listing may have been online up to one interval before we noted it. Across a six-hour window that changes nothing; for a single minute it would, which is why no claim about one is made.
Period and time zone. Eleven weeks of one summer, Europe/Berlin throughout including the summer-time shift. This is not a year-round pattern.
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