This is not true. You can query the Grondbuch and it will give you all the necessary information of the owner. Edit: sorry, havent been living in Germany for l

This is not true. You can query the Grondbuch and it will give you all the necessary information of the owner. Edit: sorry, havent been living in Germany for long. Thought it was the same as the Dutch kadaster. Turns out, it's not and my dealings with it have been unusually easy until now. The reason why expropriation isn't used a lot is because it costs a lot of resources.