We re-register your car in Berlin – after a purchase or a move.
€120 with your current plates,
€150 all-in with new plates
With delivery, you pay once everything has arrived.
Phone and WhatsApp in English: daily 9am–10pm
After buying a car or moving to Berlin: we pick up your documents and bring everything back – in Berlin and up to 25 km beyond the city limits at no extra charge. Online, we usually deliver the same day – daily until 10pm, without an ID card with online function; via the office it takes 2–4 working days in our experience. Moved within Berlin? Only your address changes. Call or WhatsApp us in English.
Which case is yours?
Re-registering a car with Zulassungsheld costs €120 with your current plates and €150 all-in with new plates, government fees included. You don't need to go anywhere: we pick up your documents or do everything online. Online, we usually deliver the same day; via the office it takes 2–4 working days in our experience. With delivery, you pay once everything has arrived – in cash or by bank transfer within 7 days of delivery; if we send plates by post, you pay by bank transfer before shipping (when and how you pay). We only start once you have explicitly agreed.
Not sure which case is yours? Send us photos via WhatsApp, and we tell you.
A re-registration (Ummeldung) brings your car registration up to date. It is needed when a registered car gets a new owner or its owner moves to another registration district, and the law says this must be done without delay.1
You bought a used car that is still registered: we transfer it to your name. Often the plates can stay; Berlin distinguishes nine cases, for example Berlin or non-Berlin plates, with or without a new number.2
If you move your main residence to Berlin, the Berlin registration authority becomes responsible for your car.3 Your current number, for example from Hamburg, can stay – then it costs €120. A Berlin number, also as a personalised number (Wunschkennzeichen), costs €150 all-in.2
Moved to Berlin? Ask on WhatsAppThen only your address changes, and your number stays. First you register your new address at a citizens' office (Bürgeramt), within 14 days of moving in.4 We change the address in your papers for €80 all-in; if you want a new Berlin number at the same time, it is €60 all-in, with the new address entered too. In German: address change within Berlin.
We also re-register motorcycles, trailers and motorhomes: a motorcycle costs €135 all-in with a new plate, €120 with your current plate; a trailer costs €135 all-in; a motorhome costs the same as a car. In German: motorcycle registration.
Re-registering a car costs €120 at Zulassungsheld if your current plates stay, and €150 all-in with new plates – after a purchase or a move to Berlin. The government fee for the transfer is included; in Berlin it starts at €17.50 on site, depending on the case, and is €12.20 online.2 5
After a purchase, the Berlin authority asks private individuals for seven documents2; after a move to Berlin, it asks for fewer5. Photos are enough for our first check; for the way via the office, we pick up the originals.
The purchase contract is not on the authority's list.2 After a move to Berlin with your current plates, the authority asks for the application, your ID with proof of address registration, the registration certificate part I and, if due, the HU report; no SEPA mandate and no old plates; part II is not needed, unless your car still has an old-style vehicle title (Fahrzeugbrief) instead of part II.5
What you sign at pick-up: the application and a power of attorney for us, including your written consent regarding the vehicle tax7; after a purchase or for new plates, also the SEPA mandate. Online, you sign the power of attorney digitally with photos of your ID and a code by text message.
We do it in one of three ways: if your current plates stay, Way B or C for €120; with new plates, Way A or C for €150 all-in. Your bank holds the Fahrzeugbrief (part II, car loan, leasing)? Write to us – we tell you how it works in your case. Online: we do everything digitally, you don't have to go anywhere and you don't need an ID card with online function.
If your case can be done online and you want new plates, we deliver them with the papers and the provisional proof of registration (vorläufiger Zulassungsnachweis) – usually on the same day; we deliver daily until 10pm. Not a firm promise.
€150 all-in.
If your plates stay and your case can be done online, we don't even need to meet: you get the provisional proof by WhatsApp, e-mail or as you prefer.
€120, by bank transfer.
Pick-up of the originals usually the same day, within 2–4 hours; hand-in early on the next working day; then, in our experience, 2–4 working days at the office, sometimes up to 7. We deliver on the day everything is ready, also in the evening until 10pm.
€150 all-in, €120 with your current plates.
With Ways A and B, the authority sends the registration documents by post – according to the Berlin registration authority (Landesamt für Bürger- und Ordnungsangelegenheiten, LABO) usually within 7 days; we plan for no more than 2 weeks.8
From our practice: in September 2026, a re-registration after a car purchase, owner from Treptow, online with new plates (Way A): first contact at about 5pm, delivered at 7:30pm, €150 all-in (as reported by the owner of Zulassungsheld, 07.10.2026).
Why re-registrations in Berlin fail: we see the first five points most often in our practice; after them come rules of the authority. Where the authority requires something, the source is given:
That is why we check your photos before we submit anything.
5 out of 5 stars
„Ich finde den service mit der abholung und den bring service genial hat wirklich reibungslos funktioniert. Danke an das team alle sehr herzlich und freundlich sehr empfehlenswert.“
Translated by us: “I think the pick-up and delivery service is brilliant; it really worked smoothly. Thanks to the team, everyone very warm and friendly, highly recommended.”
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Often, yes: after a change of ownership of a car with Berlin plates, after a change of ownership of a car with non-Berlin plates without a new number, and when you move to Berlin.2 Then the plates stay on the car, and the re-registration costs €120. A deregistered car gets a new Berlin number; with two new plates, it is then €150 all-in.2
Yes, if the requirements are met. On your own, you use the authority's online procedure (i-Kfz): you need a BundID account, an ID card or residence permit with activated online function and its six-digit PIN, a card reader or a modern smartphone with software such as the AusweisApp, vehicle documents with security codes (part I issued from 2015; for a new owner or a new number, part II issued from October 2017) and a credit card or PayPal.2 9 The government fee is then lowest, at €12.20.2 With Zulassungsheld, online works via Way A or B – without an ID card with online function.
Prices, times and process: information from Zulassungsheld, as of 07.10.2026; all prices include 19 % VAT. Review and customer photo: Google Business Profile, as of 04.10.2026.
How we produce this information: Zulassungsheld states its own prices, times and process; times such as “2–4 working days” and practice notes such as “from our practice” are based on our experience, not on figures from the authority. Fees, deadlines and rules of the authority appear on this page only with a source and retrieval date. Found a mistake? Write to us at kontakt@zulassungsheld-berlin.de or on WhatsApp; we check it, correct the page and update the date.
Zulassungsheld (page as of ): over 5 years of experience in vehicle registration, according to its owner about 60 to 100 cases a month (as of 07.10.2026), self-employed since 2025 · How Zulassungsheld works and backs up its information (in German)
Want to re-register your car in Berlin? Call us or write on WhatsApp – in English.
We tell you which case applies, which way fits and what it costs. Phone and WhatsApp: daily 9am–10pm.
From a German phone: 0171 998 0551. No WhatsApp? Call us or send an e-mail: kontakt@zulassungsheld-berlin.de
Also in English: Register a new or used car Car deregistration in Berlin Vehicle registration service in Berlin All contact options (German page with an English section)