Buying advice, small house from 1880, renovation

Then it is something that is sold in Germany as a "Schrottimmobilie". Too bad.

The photo of the basement with the supports shows the true value of the house, I would never buy it

Then it is something that is sold in Germany as a "Schrottimmobilie" (junk property). What a pity.

How much is the "good piece" supposed to cost? It seems to me that there is no garden at all?

No, no garden, the plot itself has an area of about 55 m2. Something like that would be fine for us, we have a small weekend house nearby. As KarstenausNRW wrote, the price is 200,000 euros including ancillary costs.

Something is not right here.

In 2020, you had a fairly good salary of 6000 euros with 100,000€ of equity. By now, your wife should be working again, or the unborn child back then is now 3 years old. The equity should have increased somewhat by now. Okay, a downside: cross-border commuter to Switzerland, which limits financing options.

Then: in 2021, a bungalow is planned on a hillside plot and details of the facade enlivening are already being discussed... 2, 3 months later, a floor plan is made for a bungalow on a 400sqm _planes_ plot.

Every time you explain that you come from the construction industry and know your way around here and there, so you already tell us that you can do (almost) everything yourself because you have the knowledge or have architect friends.

And then you come with a junk property (in France), which hardly has any land but has a big “provisional” beam/support in the basement and inside it looks rather lived-in and in need of renovation, but you say that you like the house and are interested.

Why don’t you choose something nicer, something affordable and yet good? Are there really problems with the financing? You were at the Sparkasse back then and received an offer... Despite the higher interest rates, something better should come out than such a disaster?! It doesn’t have to be a new building, but a affordable and well-maintained apartment should be possible, right?

Beautiful half-timbered house and great year of construction. But: Apparently, almost everything here needs to be renovated; a complete renovation is imminent. For that, the purchase price is simply too high considering the missing plot of land. The house isn’t located in Munich or Frankfurt, after all. The picture with the supports in the basement is already suspicious. For a few tens of thousands of euros, it might make sense, but not more, because it will cost a lot of money to renovate the house, even though it is rather small. Surely, some beams will need to be replaced here and there, but those are just small elements of a significantly larger (more expensive) whole. Acquaintances bought a similar property for back then 23,000€.