Buying a house in St. Pölten
A house in the St. Pölten area usually means the surrounding municipalities. That is exactly where location decides everyday life, because two neighbouring places can be half an hour apart in practice. We compute the travel time to Vienna and to the centre for each location individually instead of calling a municipality well connected.
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19listings
These houses are currently available in and around St. Pölten.
To be honest: with 19 listings we are right at the beginning for houses in the St. Pölten area. That is not enough to compare, and we will not pretend otherwise. What this page does answer is below: what building land costs per municipality, how long the trip to Vienna takes from there and how loud the address is.
3382 Loosdorf++Neuer Preis++ Gewerbe/Gastrobetrieb in zentraler Lage,auf 1.860m² BK-Baugrund!€ 495.00021 rooms
3500 ImbachFamiliennest mit Garten - *gefördert*4ZI - Reihenhaus mit viel Stauraum und 2Stellplätzen!€ 408.463110 m²4 rooms
3243 St. Leonhard am ForstJungfamilienhaus Erstbezug -Doppelhaus, zum Kauf in St. Leonhard / Forst€ 409.118108 m²4 rooms
3204 Kirchberg an der PielachMehrfamilienhaus in Kirchberg an der Pielach mit 3 Wohneinheiten und Nebengebäude€ 269.000250 m²7 rooms
3500 Krems an der DonauKlein aber Fein104 m²4 rooms
3500 Krems an der Donau4ZI-Reihenhaus mit Nebengebäude (Büro) in Grünlage inkl.2 Parkpl.- Eigenmittel + Wbf - monatl. Kosten (BK+Wbf)€ 540.613130 m²4 roomsListings come directly from estate agents and private owners, through interfaces and our own editor. We do not copy portals, and we take no commission.
How many houses are currently in which municipality of the St. Pölten area. The link opens the atlas with all the location data.
The difference is not the number of listings, it is what stands next to each one. For a house outside the city, location matters more than for a flat in it, and that is exactly what no property description talks about.
Not the 25 minutes the train needs from the main station, but the time from your front door to Vienna Central Station, including the walk, the wait and the change. From the centre that is 31 minutes; across all locations in the market the median is 64.
See travel times →The western railway runs through the middle of town, plus the A1 motorway and the S33. St. Pölten is not an agglomeration under the EU directive, so only these main sources are mapped: no zone does not mean quiet here, and we say so.
Open the noise map →The Traisen valley is flat and the city compact, so the differences come from sealed surfaces. We compute the heat load per location from the Copernicus model, and we say that it is a model.
Open the heat map →With a house the land is the larger half of the price. Official building land prices for the city and district of St. Pölten are on our land page.
See land prices →Transfer tax, land register fee, contract drafting and commission add up to a double-digit percentage of the purchase price. On 400,000 euros that is roughly 40,000 euros that no bank finances and that the listing price does not mention.
Two Vienna districts can differ by more than a factor of two, and within one district a single street often separates more than 1,000 euros per square metre. That is why we put the district value next to each listing, not the city average.
A low maintenance reserve is not a saving, it is a deferred bill. Before signing, ask for the reserve level, the last decisions of the owners association and any planned renovation.
A yield promised in the brochure is the seller’s calculation. We only state a yield when we can recalculate it from documented figures, and we say where it comes from.
Transfer tax 3,5 %, land register fee 1,1 %, agent commission at most 3 % plus VAT. All purchase costs →
Not where the map suggests. Wilhelmsburg is 58 kilometres from Vienna as the crow flies and Herzogenburg only 52, yet door to door Wilhelmsburg reaches Vienna Central Station in a median of 66 minutes and Herzogenburg in 85. Six kilometres further away and nineteen minutes faster: what counts is the service at the rail stop, not the distance. The figures per municipality are on our commuting page.
Statistics Austria publishes average prices per municipality and district. We show them on the land page, per municipality where the source allows it and otherwise as a district figure, clearly labelled as such.
Not in Lower Austria. For Vienna, Graz, Salzburg and Upper Austria we show the official zoning per address; Lower Austria runs no queryable service we could connect to. For a house purchase that is a real gap, and we do not paper over it.
Property transfer tax of 3.5 per cent, land register entry of 1.1 per cent, plus the contract and usually the agent commission. Around ten per cent in additional costs is a realistic estimate.
Set your priorities once and the search orders by them: a short trip to Vienna, quiet location, cool summer, budget. No account, no cost.