Actual costs of a semi-detached house - What is coming our way?

  • Erstellt am 2018-06-20 16:57:55

chico919

2018-06-20 16:57:55
  • #1
Hello dear community,

I am 22 years old and am currently completing my technician training. My goal was to build a duplex house with my brother in 3 years.
It would therefore be a prefabricated house. After internet research, you can find some turnkey duplex houses already for 230,000-280,000€. At first glance, of course, great, but the question arises how many things in the pictures are extras and what these extras cost.
For example, it is described as 2-story, meaning ground floor and first floor, or as 3-story; the base price will probably refer to the 2-story version, so how much would the third floor cost me approximately? But that’s not all, although it is offered turnkey, I am interested in what the whole thing would ultimately cost me if it is supposed to be a mid-range house.
Maybe one or the other can make me an example calculation of what actually lies ahead of me. I would also be interested in what you think of these wooden prefabricated houses regarding heat in summer and cold in winter. For calculation, one could consider a turnkey duplex house without a foundation slab at 240,000€ and a plot of land that has never been built on for 170,000€. Maybe one or the other can now show me what the fun would ultimately cost me, e.g. that you can calculate 30% extras on the house price for certain extras, etc. I hope there is someone here who has already had experience with this. My last question would be, the prices are very different; could it possibly also be that House B charges 70,000€ more but already has more extras from the ground up and nicer tiles, etc.?

I already thank you for your answers
 

11ant

2018-06-20 20:14:18
  • #2
I don’t understand the leap of thought to the prefabricated house, unless you have fallen for the myth that prices would be more reliably calculable there.

Basically, a semi-detached house differs from a detached house only in two points: on the one hand, you save 3m of plot width per house (or 2.5m, depending on the federal state) because one side’s setback is eliminated. This makes the plot linearly cheaper by this reduced width. On the other hand, it becomes more difficult to alter the terrain: where there is no setback, you can’t cut into the ground to adjust to the neighbor’s height.

With your brother as a half-house partner, of course, you have an advantage – in my opinion, best to the extent that you find a common planner, or maybe even the same house provider / building contractor.

Advertised prices are advertised prices; the same amount of deception is practiced in every house type. Turnkey can mean anything or nothing; the difference between a more or less honest "scope of construction services" is slightly greater than between more or less fancy materials.

Three years is a good amount of time to educate yourself – to what extent does it also allow you to fatten your equity?
 

chico919

2018-06-20 20:41:03
  • #3
Thank you first of all for your response, certainly the interest rates are currently so low that land and houses are more expensive, so for savers it is currently a bad time. But next year there will probably already be the first interest rate increases. In 3 years I estimate that we will have around €150,000 saved and the whole thing should preferably cost a maximum of €500,000. However, you mentioned that we shouldn’t be so fixed on prefabricated houses, but I can hardly imagine that an individual house built stone by stone would cost the same. When I think that my parents paid €215,000 in 2006 for 630m2 in a rather expensive area for a house and still had to spend another €70,000 on renovation, they came off very cheaply compared to today’s times. Of course, the big issue is also to find an affordable building plot, then there is more buffer upwards. But nowadays you have to pay almost €200,000 for about 1000m2 of land just for what my parents buy a house for. There is also a massive shortage of building plots in Germany and I definitely don’t want to go far out into the villages. Especially the wooden prefabricated houses are more or less mass-produced and therefore easier and cheaper to build, my big question is however, if this turnkey house costs €230,000, can I then rather easily reach €400,000 or does it stay within limits, for example €270,000-€300,000. There is still negotiation room of 3-5% (~€15,000), which can be applied to extras. Do you happen to know if these house building catalogs list prices for all extras or only possibilities of what can be done and prices on request?
 

11ant

2018-06-20 22:22:50
  • #4
The prefab house industry actually thrives on the fact that you can't imagine that. Some prefab builders even specifically live off the myth that the Pole is dumb and sells his stuff too cheaply. Free yourself from the thought that the construction method is a price factor. Individuality is more of one, but even solid builders have fully calculated and already built models many times over in their drawer. Solid builders are often family businesses, operating regionally and dependent on their reputation where they are. Prefab builders don’t have this "local attachment" and shamelessly talk about prices that, on closer inspection, lead to disappointed customers. And they have salespeople who change employers like underwear. No loyalty or faithfulness grows on this ground. If you have no personal preferences for construction method or material X, Y or Z, then it’s best to inquire broadly accordingly about who gives you the best offer.
 

ypg

2018-06-21 00:00:54
  • #5
There are no floors in the single-family house sector; one speaks of full stories, which also do not really determine the house price, unless it is a single-story building, i.e., a bungalow.
Turnkey does not exist either.
You recognized the foundation slab well: it costs extra for timber frame construction.
The latter is somewhat more expensive than solid construction, stone on stone.

Heat in summer and cold in winter do not play a role in times of the energy saving ordinance, except that one would have to protect oneself from the southern sun through the window.

One calculates 2000/sqm plus incidental construction costs of 30-40000 plus outdoor facilities 10000 plus carport/garage from 5000 plus painter/floor coverings 10-20000 for an [Energieeinsparverordnung]-house plus land.
 

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