Age-appropriate bungalow 150 sqm Mecklenburg Vorpommern

Hello everyone,

we intended to have a 150sqm bungalow with a double garage built solidly. The plot of land has been reserved (costs with notary €135,000). A brief overview of our history: We currently live in our 270sqm house on a 1200sqm plot, an old building from 1900. We extended it by 60sqm in 2014. Our current property is paid off.

We want to sell the house for private family reasons (my husband's family lives next door) and immediately build a retirement-appropriate home. Additionally, we are now only three, soon two, so the house is way too big anyway. We are in our mid-50s and of course speculate that the house sale will cover the costs for the new house.

We are still unsure how exactly to proceed.

We have now first obtained an estimate for the shell construction, i.e., masonry, roof, double garage, screed, etc.

The construction company wants €295,000 for that... I find that extremely expensive... all other trades come on top of that. We live in Mecklenburg Vorpommern.

I would be very grateful for suggestions and tips.

What is the question now? Whether the shell construction is too expensive?

These are the current market prices. If it's too expensive, just leave it and continue living in the paid-off property.

We added 60sqm in 2014.

so the house is way too big anyway.

You don't have to understand that, right? But whatever. I would say, even as of today, 295,000 EUR for just a shell construction is very high, but if I read there is screed included, that already goes beyond, so put your money where your mouth is, then maybe something can be said. Otherwise, just ask other providers or the architect (who actually designed the plan for the current offer?).

So I have (or will have been paid) about 220,000 EUR for 164m² net floor area, 2 full floors in Poroton, monolithic with a hipped roof (cold roof, insulation on intermediate ceiling, nail truss construction and concrete roof tiles), on strip foundations, floor slab, screed, gypsum plaster inside and silicone resin plaster outside, as well as colored plaster in the base area with a construction contract from early 2020.
The following extras are included in this amount: I took half a row of bricks more than standard for this turnkey construction in the ground and upper floors respectively and end up with a finished floor height of 2.62m and 2.65m: 3,800 EUR.
Excavation surcharge due to 0.7m additional soil replacement: 4,600 EUR.
With a gable roof I could have saved approximately 3-4,000 EUR.
And all of this in Berlin.
Now a bungalow is relatively more expensive and I had to hear from experts at the construction site that my construction is rather cheap than inexpensive, but still I would consider your offer expensive, depending on what exactly the parameters are.

Many thanks first of all for the answers ☺️ And yes, the question is whether the shell construction alone is too expensive?