The 50 most expensive stations of the Berlin U-Bahn

The figure shown is not an income but a land value: the official Bodenrichtwert published by the Gutachterausschuss für Grundstückswerte Berlin for the reference date 01.01.2025, divided by the zone's Geschossflächenzahl (GFZ), its permitted floor-area ratio. That gives euros per square metre of permitted floor area, computed only over residential valuation zones (use class “W”), 812 of them across the city. Why divide? Raw land value per square metre of ground is mostly a density measure: a tenement block in Mitte is worth more per square metre of ground than a villa plot in Dahlem, even though Dahlem is the more expensive place to live. Dividing by the floor area that may be built there is what makes the two comparable, and it is standard German valuation practice. So this measures what the ground under a neighbourhood is worth, not what the people living there earn, and certainly not what the people using the station earn. Germany publishes income only at Bezirk level, twelve districts for 175 stations, far too coarse to rank stations. The top of the ranking brings together two very different kinds of expensive ground. One is wealthy residential Berlin in the south-west, along the U3: Podbielskiallee (€4,750), Dahlem-Dorf, Freie Universität (Thielplatz) and Oskar-Helene-Heim (€4,500 each), plus Krumme Lanke (€3,500) and Neu-Westend on the U2 (€3,750). The other is prime central government and tourist ground, where Hausvogteiplatz and Museumsinsel both reach €4,800, the network maximum, followed by Brandenburger Tor, Bundestag, Unter den Linden and Potsdamer Platz (€3,000 each). Both are expensive ground, for completely different reasons. The gap to the cheapest end of the network (€500) is a factor of 9.6. Two caveats come with it. The Bodenrichtwert is published in rounded steps, so values repeat: these 50 rows carry only 19 distinct amounts, and within a group sharing one value the rank order means nothing. And 74 of the 175 stations sit in no residential zone at all, so they take the value of the nearest one; for Oranienburger Tor that zone is 1,099 m away. Downtown in particular, the figure describes a residential area nearby rather than the station itself. The ranking covers the 175 U-Bahn stations of lines U1 to U9, all 175 of them priced.