Additional costs for sloped land with tree coverage

Thank you very much for all the input. I was there again over the weekend. It applies like neighboring development. Around it are all rather old existing houses. The house right next to it is also built up on the hill. I took a closer look at the whole thing again. Towards the street, the property is very steep. I can't imagine that you could drive up there by car and at the top it becomes noticeably flatter. Last summer when I visited the property, you couldn't really see that properly because of all the hedges and trees. Currently, the question for me is rather how to solve the driveway. Because cutting into the slope for the garage will, I think, be very adventurous, as the slope down to the street is very, very steep. There isn't even a sidewalk and the street itself is also very narrow. So the street is so narrow that you can hardly turn around on it.

The incline looks more like in the picture, but the flat part at the top is even longer. But it looks about like that when you stand in front of it. Maybe overall it is flatter, but at the bottom you really stand in front of a wall..

We also have such plots in our street. In all of them, the garage is built into the hill at street level, then there is a staircase leading up to the house.

One of the stairs can also be located inside the basement.

Thank you again for your tips. Since I have a person in the close family circle who should also be able to visit regularly but is not very steady on their feet, it was a wish or actually an absolute requirement for me that the car can be driven right up to the house. Currently, I am considering whether a winding driveway might be feasible, similar to the switchbacks in the mountains. But I think that will probably be very, very expensive.

Expensive and too little space

Thank you for the response. In the meantime, we have another plot in prospect. Significantly less slope, great view without having to build "on top" of the property. Actually not much more expensive either, but 5 minutes further away from "our" town. The only downside: there is an overhead power line running over it. Is that problematic? The mayor says no. What do you say? According to my research, there is nothing conclusive about the health concerns. However, what about the noise level or things we might not have thought of yet?