Buying a terraced house from a developer - contract content?

I wouldn't base the assessment of the location on whether it is central or rural. Of course, that's an important matter of personal taste that everyone has to decide for themselves. But there are clearly both good and bad areas within the city as well as outside of it. I don't want to live in the bad ones, either in the city or outside. But in the good ones, I would.

My wife only wants to live centrally, so I'm forced to find good and central locations.

You poor thing

It is the same with us, the woman prefers central locations, the man prefers less central ones.

We think we have found a compromise with both options now.
We evaluated the location based on the distance to the train station and the duration of the trip to Hannover, and as a second point the distance to shopping facilities.

With the terraced house in the middle, the train station is within walking distance (1.1 km), but there are no shopping facilities within walking distance.
With the building plot we could buy, the train station is about 3 km away, but shopping facilities are within walking distance.

For us it is the same, the wife is for central, the husband for not so central.

We think we have found a compromise for both options now.
We evaluated the location based on distance to the train station and travel time to Hannover and as a second point the distance to shopping facilities.

For the terraced house in the middle of the row, the train station is within walking distance (1.1 km), but there are no shopping facilities within walking distance.
For the building plot we could buy, the train station is about 3 km away, but shopping facilities are within walking distance.

When I read that, SL seems to have a special status. Some of us drive less than 1 km to the train station by car to take the train from there.
When I was young, I used to ride 100 m to the video store on my moped myself.
Shopping facilities within walking distance are not even an issue there, even if it is only 200 m, shopping is done by car. But I also think I once read that the driver’s license density among young adults in SL is the highest.

For me personally, location is the combination of good connection to job/city (highway, train, other public transport) along with green/quiet and beautiful (typical single-family house areas, I don’t like apartment buildings, row houses are not really my thing either). The distance to the nearest grocery store doesn’t matter to me at all, especially since the kids arrived we always drive, otherwise doing the big shopping would be much more difficult. On the other hand, at least a primary school is an absolute must in quick reach, preferably within walking distance.

Now let's move away from the location for a moment, something you also have to consider when buying from the property developer: you pay additional purchase costs (about 8%) on the total price (land, house, and ancillary construction costs that the developer has included in the price). With a price of €400,000, that amounts to €32,000 instead of just for the land (e.g., €8,000 if the land costs €100,000). For the (unavoidable) difference of €24,000, you can indulge in some extras.

For this, you do not pay VAT on the entire construction service