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In your first 12 months in Frankfurt, you'll make decisions about taxes, insurance, property, and schools that you can't take back. Most expats figure that out after the damage is done.
The wrong tax class ties up €6,000+ per year at the Finanzamt instead of in your account. Pick the wrong insurance and you're locked in. Start your exit planning 11 months late and the Finanzamt keeps money it shouldn't. These aren't scare numbers. They're what a €10,000 to €50,000 mistake looks like when nobody warned you.
That's what Landed Frankfurt prevents.
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Plan From Home
Read Before You Move
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Tax
What Your Frankfurt Relocation Package Is Actually Worth After Tax
12 min read
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Before you decide
Is the move worth it
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Finance
Cost of Living in Frankfurt: What It Actually Costs in 2026
8 min read
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Before you land
Lock in school, suburb, insurance
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Family
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International Schools Near Frankfurt: FIS, ISF, and Every Option Compared
12 min read
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Housing
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Bad Homburg, Kronberg, Königstein, Oberursel: Where Finance Expats Actually Live
10 min read
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Health
Private vs. Statutory Health Insurance in Germany: The Expat Decision Guide
9 min read
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Once you’re here
Set up on the ground
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Setup
Opening a Bank Account in Germany as an Expat: What Works in 2026
7 min read
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One email a week about expat life in Frankfurt's Taunus suburbs. The kind of things you'd otherwise figure out six months too late.
- Neighbourhood profiles with real numbers
- English-speaking doctors, tax advisors, Kita contacts
- Anmeldung, visa, Kita: step by step
- Seasonal guides to the Taunus region
- Expat meetups, hiking groups, and Taunus market dates
- Free mini-guide on sign-up: Your Frankfurt First Week
Quick Start
Frankfurt Expat Starter Kit
€19 one-time
Your first 90 days hide a handful of deadlines that won't wait. This 60-page playbook is the map: which decisions come first, and in what order. Anmeldung, bank account, insurance, school, tax. Three checklists you can print and run in parallel.
- Anmeldung: what to bring, where to go
- Bank account before your Meldebescheinigung arrives
- Health insurance: public vs. private explained
- School and Kita registration timelines
- First-week checklist with addresses and links
Digital Guide
Frankfurt Expat Guide
€149 Early Bird (then €249)
The financial decisions that cost expats €10,000 to €50,000 when they get them wrong, usually without seeing it coming until years later. 12 chapters on the money side of your relocation, from tax setup to exit planning.
- Tax class, RSUs, and dual-income setup. The wrong configuration ties up €6,000+ per year in avoidable withholding.
- PKV vs. GKV: a break-even analysis by family profile instead of guesswork
- The untaxed compensation components worth €5,000 to €15,000 a year that you probably didn’t negotiate
- What each Taunus municipality actually costs: rent, property tax, Kita fees, commute
- An exit timeline. Most expats start 11 months too late.
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Custom Integration Report
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Decide your suburb and school before you sign a lease or a contract. A relocation plan built around your family, your budget, and your timeline. You fill out one questionnaire. We deliver the answers within 5 business days.
- One suburb recommendation matched to your commute, school needs, and budget
- School and Kita options for your children's specific ages
- English-speaking doctors, dentists, and a Steuerberater who files expat returns
- Monthly cost breakdown for your family size
- A 90-day action list so you know exactly what to do when
Who's Behind This
Written in the Taunus, by someone who lives here
Landed Frankfurt is written by Leonie M.-Link in Bad Homburg. The towns, the schools, the Kitas, the Finanzamt: home turf, not research territory.
I'm not a relocation agent and I don't sell insurance or funds, so no commission decides what ends up in these guides. Expat friends and neighbours kept asking the same questions about schools, tax classes, and where to live. The answers grew into this site.
Every fact gets checked against two independent sources before it goes live. When the rules change, the guides change.
2+Sources Behind Every Fact
12Guide Chapters on Money Decisions
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Questions
Frequently asked
We built Landed Frankfurt for finance and consulting professionals (and their families) relocating to the Frankfurt area, specifically the Taunus suburbs: Bad Homburg, Kronberg, Königstein, and Oberursel. If you're on a 3 to 5 year assignment and want to skip months of trial and error, start here.
No. All content is in English, all recommendations point to English-speaking professionals. We also show you exactly how to handle the moments where German is unavoidable (Bürgeramt, Kita forms, landlord contracts). We give you the templates and workarounds expats actually use.
No. We cover the specific suburbs and communities where finance professionals actually live. Not Berlin nightlife or Munich beer gardens. Every recommendation covers the Taunus region specifically: names, addresses, firsthand experience.
The 60-page Starter Kit (€19) is a 90-day playbook: four parts covering arrival, your financial and legal setup, bureaucracy patterns, and building your social life, plus three checklists (Week 1, Month 1, Month 3) to run in parallel. It gets you through the critical early steps in the right order. The Expat Guide (€149 Early Bird) is not a bigger version of the Starter Kit. It covers a different problem: the financial and legal decisions that cost €10,000 to €50,000 when you get them wrong. 12 chapters on taxes, insurance, pension, investment, compensation, real estate, and exit planning. It does not repeat neighbourhood profiles or school directories (those are free on our blog). Start with the Starter Kit when you arrive. The Guide is for when you want to make sure the money side is right.
You get a 20 to 30 page PDF with one suburb recommendation, school and Kita options for your children, doctors, dentists, a Steuerberater, a monthly budget plan, and a 90-day action list. Everything matched to your family. How it works: you fill out one questionnaire about your family size, children's ages, budget, and priorities. We do the research. You get the report within 5 business days. No calls, no meetings.
Two reasons. We live in the Taunus, so we know the towns, the schools, and the Finanzamt from the inside, not from a brochure. And we don't work as insurance brokers, mortgage advisers, or fund salespeople, so no commission decides what we tell you. A relocation agent sorts your visa and your flat. A bank adviser points you at the bank's own products. We tell you what we'd tell a friend, in plain English, and you make the call. We do use a few affiliate links for services we'd pick ourselves, always marked, at no extra cost to you.
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