2.5-room apartment + garage + private entrance + garden, directly next to TU Dortmund & Dortmund Technology Park

Key facts

Purchase price & costs

About this apartment

For sale, commission-free from a private seller, is an excellently and very efficiently laid-out 2.5-room condominium (built in 1995, energy class C) with a genuine unique feature: a completely separate, private apartment entrance.

The apartment is located on the slightly elevated ground floor (raised ground floor) and is flooded with light: The kitchen faces the side of the building, while the two rooms have beautiful, large windows facing the quiet rear courtyard. From the private entrance hallway, you access the spacious kitchen with room for dining, a generous living and dining area, and a separate bedroom. Practical for everyday life: the toilet room and shower room are separate, and the shower room also provides space for the washing machine. The Vaillant brand heating system was completely replaced by a specialist company in 2024.

The multi-family building (built in 1995) is, at around 30 years old, a comparatively young existing property: solid, very robust construction, consistently dry and sustainably maintained, with very good tenants in the building and a committed, professional property management company.

Current status: The apartment is rented and currently generates €520 warm rent per month; together with the garage at +€100, this amounts to €6,000 annual net cold rent from day one (€400 apartment + €100 garage).

Owners’ association and maintenance reserve—the foundation is sound here: a maintenance reserve of around €54,000, documented by the current asset report, exceptionally high for a building of this size; the risk of special assessments is minimal. Continuous, forward-looking maintenance in recent years (including replacement of the drainage pipes), professional, committed property management, very good tenants and a harmonious residential community, with winter services and garden maintenance firmly arranged. Whoever buys here is investing in a financially sound, well-managed and well-organized community.

The target tenant group is literally right outside the front door: employees at the Technology Park / TZDO / Fraunhofer IML / Lamarr Institute (around 13,500 employees in over 300 companies, reachable within a few minutes on foot), as well as students of TU Dortmund (around 33,000), FH Dortmund (around 13,000) and ISM Dortmund (around 3,000). The apartment is the perfect student apartment: 2.5 rooms instead of a shared-room, private entrance, separate toilet and shower room.

Purchase price: €129,500 for the apartment, plus €29,000 for the car garage, total €158,500.

For investors, current and Target at a glance:

Current status: €6,000 annual net cold rent, rented, income from day one.
Furnished apartments near the university and technology park are typically marketed at around €780 including utilities; the garage could prospectively be rented separately for €120 per month, totaling €900 per month.
Target status with a new furnished tenancy: around €10,800 annual rent.

With usual additional costs of approx. €100, this corresponds to €9,600 annual net cold rent, or around 6.1% gross yield on the total purchase price. Calculated for the apartment alone (€129,500, approx. €3,000/m²), the potential net cold rent of €8,160/year even corresponds to around 6.3% gross yield.

The details: service charges €216/month, of which approx. €119 are allocable operating costs (paid by the tenant) and €44.42 is allocated to the maintenance reserve. Effective non-allocable management costs: ONLY approx. €52/month!

Fittings and features, as described

- Separate, private apartment entrance (no shared stairwell)
- Very efficiently used approx. 43 m² of living space; every square metre is sensibly usable
- Light-filled living rooms: both rooms face the quiet rear courtyard and have beautiful, large windows; the kitchen faces the building side
- Flooring: the kitchen, toilet room and central living area are tiled; the smaller room has carpeting
- Separate toilet room and shower room
- Vaillant central heating system, renewed by a specialist company in 2024
- Car garage in the quiet rear courtyard (surcharge, see purchase price details)
- Private basement room with high ceilings of approx. 2.60 m, offering ample volume for storage and bulky items
- Shared use of the well-maintained garden in the quiet rear courtyard, with a garden shed and large terrace, charmingly sheltered behind the garages
- Video surveillance on the property
- Solid, dry building structure, built in 1995
- Energy efficiency class C (final energy consumption 91 kWh/(m²·a)), significantly better than the average of Germany’s existing residential building stock; energy performance certificate valid until February 2029

Other

Commission-free from private seller.

Note regarding the interior photos and floor plan depiction: To protect the privacy of the current tenant and at their request, the interior photos were retouched using AI so that personal belongings are not recognizable. This may result in distortions of the interior furnishings, floor plan, or room proportions. The floor plan depiction was also created in simplified form using AI and, like the interior photos, serves solely for orientation and illustration; it is not to scale and does not constitute a warranted characteristic. The exact dimensions and floor area details are set out in the land register entry, the declaration of division, and the complete property documents, which are available for inspection by serious prospective buyers and will be handed over in full upon purchase. Viewing appointments are expressly welcome and will gladly be arranged. All exterior photos are unedited.

All information is provided to the best of our knowledge, but without guarantee; errors and prior sale reserved. Only the details in the notarized purchase agreement are authoritative. Viewings by appointment; complete documents are available for serious prospective buyers.

Location

Location details

Living in Dortmund’s €300 million sweet spot: The apartment is located in Dortmund-Dorstfeld, on the border with Eichlinghofen, on Wittener Straße at the level of Emil-Figge-Straße.

Hardly any location in NRW is currently developing as dynamically as the area surrounding TU Dortmund: over €300 million is currently flowing into new buildings on campus, including the approximately €90 million CALEDO research building (opened in October 2025) and the Center for Logistics and IT (ZLI), scheduled to reopen in autumn 2026. More than 300 companies with around 13,500 employees are already based at the Science and Technology Campus, alongside Fraunhofer IML and the Lamarr Institute, one of Germany’s permanently federally funded AI competence centers, both in the immediate vicinity. The planned expansion of the H-Bahn to U42 would further improve connectivity. For owners, this means permanently strong and continuing solvent tenant demand right on the doorstep.

TU Dortmund, the Technology Park and TZDO can be reached within a few minutes on foot; public transport is immediately next to the property, while REWE, dm, doctors and restaurants are all within walking distance. At the same time, the A40 motorway interchange is nearby: the motorway can be reached within a few minutes, yet no motorway noise can be heard. This combination of maximum connectivity, walkable infrastructure and peaceful living makes the location the sweet spot.