Buying a shell construction - Experiences

is just a gut feeling

because beautiful plots do not grow on trees like leaves and see above, it should not be a KO criterion

As I also said: I see it exactly the same way.

That is not a KO criterion.

how long has it been standing still? I would be selfish and try to push the price down further. Maybe you are the only serious interested party

The standstill is described in the initial thread. About 2 years.

I would advise the OP not to blindly push the price down further. The OP plans: Bring in an expert.

After that, you can see where it still sticks.
Of course something is stuck after 2 years of standstill. You quantify that and then continue negotiating. If no disaster happened during construction, not much will be broken – then the price is also reasonably okay.

You have to see: The house is not tiny. The OPs plan 150K for further expansion + 145K purchase = 295,000. Corresponds to about 1800 euros/sqm. That’s acceptable.

I think they still have some potential to go down, whether 150K is really necessary depends on the OP’s requirements and the necessities to comply with the energy saving ordinance based on the completed shell (but the expert can quantify that well).

Best regards
Thorsten

You have to see: The house is not tiny. The OP is planning 150K for further construction + 145K purchase = 295,000. Corresponds to about 1800 Euro/sqm. That’s okay.

no, nothing about that is okay. The house is already 2 years old with very likely worse insulation. You have to take the house as it is, and some things may no longer be installable (or only with difficulty) (e.g., ventilation system, if the heights no longer allow it, or electric shutters (except for that nonsense of external pre-assembly)). You don’t know the history of the house, something will definitely be wrong. And as someone else already wrote: the demand for such buildings is very low. There’s a reason for that. If you are going to do something like this, it also has to be worth it! 1800€/sqm is definitely not “worth it”. You might as well build and plan completely new. For me, I would only do something like this if you can really save around 50,000€ or so in the end. Here, it also comes into play that the land is only leasehold. Leasehold may be fine for some, but for me from the countryside, that is nonsense (supply/demand for land). If you are really interested, you absolutely have to go with an expert. If there are still doubts, a friend knowledgeable about shell construction is enough at first. Unfortunately, experts are not clairvoyant either and many potential defects are already hidden.