Buying a house from a developer - required documents

There can't be an energy certificate yet. Strange sources of information are being used ...

For the developer house, you look at the equipment and room layout, the rest is the builder's business, and that is not the buyer.

Yes, but in the concrete case, the buyer would only find out what the interior fittings look like at the notary. Sorry if I see that negatively. But friends of ours bought like that too and are annoyed every day because the senior boss, when it comes to aesthetics, is stuck in the 90s. For example, a floor-level shower is nonsense to him. It should be the normal 6 cm high shower tray. His exact words: he can shower like that even at his age. Everything else costs an exorbitant price.

but if the house is not yet built, at least one still has the possibility to have a wall inserted or to have a pink toilet added.

Building in coordination with sales development is due to the liquidity reasons of the developer. The motive for the fact that the house does not yet consist of "fallen cubes" at the time of sale is at least not primarily to keep design options open for the buyer. It often happens anyway that the developer grants this to the buyer. But basically, he is shooting himself in the foot and reinforces the buyer's misconception of seeing himself as the builder. And usually, he then also experiences that this leads to the buyer’s desire to roam around the construction site as (as so nicely puts it) "Millimeterhermann."

Anything else costs a defensive price

Therefore, in my opinion, this is the most reasonable approach for a developer.

Here the realtor smelled "a client wanting to make out" in the sense of my analogy and showed the yellow card.

But still, the car salesman shouldn’t immediately get offended if someone wants to know whether the car has a sunroof or air conditioning?

There are also two sales lines in car trading: comparable to a developer’s house is the "stock car," which is already in the showroom and whose equipment cannot be changed anymore. The counterpart to the developer’s house that hasn’t started construction yet is here the stock car that is still in wax in the underground garage. If I want to compose the equipment completely myself, the salesman leads me to a special order. With the construction company (sister company or identical with the developer but a different kind of business), I can also become the client (builder). But precisely not be the buyer and behave like a builder – and I understand every provider who wants to keep this strictly separate.

The question about the construction performance description is "morally" absolutely justified, and in my opinion, it also belongs to the sales exposé (i.e. given before the notary appointment); but it is also a signal "buyer feels like a builder," which the realtor, in my opinion, has appropriately (though not necessarily correctly in every individual case) interpreted.

Of course, you can no longer change the equipment on a car that has already been built – but you can look at the specific car and inquire about the equipment items that you cannot see directly. You can see the existing (or non-existing) sunroof, and any car dealer, no matter how dubious, will tell you the engine type without discussion. Completely independent of the fact that you cannot change either of these. However, this saleswoman apparently acts as if it were an attack that the original poster wants to know about the type of radio system. Wants to know, not change! At least not yet. It’s like being interested in a finished house and then not being allowed to look into the heating room during the viewing…

It is what it is. In terms of an economical handling, the developer can reasonably decide, this is how we build, this and that is extra possible for this and that surcharge. If you like it, okay. If you don’t like it, then simply don’t buy. However, the customer should receive a list of how the building will be constructed. Our old REH was also such a developer project. Back then, before purchase, we received a kind of exposé with the plans from the broker, a kind of basic construction specification for poor people, stating what is included and how it will be. For example, white Raufaser wallpaper inside. Or Ytong plus red clinker bricks, or double glazing, white PVC. Things like that were stated there. Practically nothing was changeable for us. Also, when we bought the house, it was already quite far completed. We were allowed to crawl around the construction site after working hours, but not during working hours. Karsten

You are wonderfully cool

We said goodbye politely and left without exchanging another word.

You did well! We also bought from the developer but received all relevant documents before signing. And there was only one contract, no reservation fee, etc. The first money [to the developer] was paid only after the earthworks began.

We also had a conversation with another construction company, where we were supposed to receive the construction and performance specifications only after(!) signing the purchase contract (Massa Haus). That first meeting remained the only one.

Tip for you: If the location is very important to you, contact the developer directly again, bypassing the saleswoman who showed you the property (call the managing director, express your interest, ask if the saleswoman's behavior was in his interest). If the managing director argues in the same way, then politely end the conversation, delete the number, shred all documents, and forget the whole thing. Otherwise, you can take another look ... no risk, no fun!