Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

I think that would roughly be my question as well: Could you imagine buying a house without massive discounts with 15 years of remaining contract term? 10 years? 5 years? 1 year?

It can be done - but no bank will finance it. The leasehold contract would have to be extended in advance.

A few more words about price increases...

Xella is raising prices by about 20% as of 1.1.22.
Brickworks as well. Here are a few excerpts from the price catalogs (officially published on the homepage): 2022 and 2023. Prices have increased by up to 80% - especially perforated bricks for interior construction...:eek:
I have marked the bricks we used in red. Of course, not all interior walls were built with 11 cm bricks. For load-bearing walls, we used the 24 cm TS 1.2, for the garage the 17 cm TS 1.2.
I am curious what the shell construction would cost us in 2023?

A little back to the topic: We finally received our 80m boreholes this week, will casing and connect them probably only next year. For those interested. Such a geothermal heating system (Novelan, when it only runs on the heating rod, a cold week like the last one is/was) easily runs 750kW —> with us around 35€/day Now please feel very sympathetic!!

That's how heating up works. You shouldn't use the drill holes for that anyway, even if they were connected, as they are not designed for this extraction capacity. The drilling fox will then promptly cancel the warranty.

That's how heating up works. You probably shouldn't use the boreholes for that anyway, even if they were connected, as they are not designed for that extraction power. The drilling fox will then promptly void the warranty.

From my experience, I'd say that's nonsense.
I also heated up my house without the heating rod (instead of the screed program, I simply set 40° supply temperature) – but it was summer – so it's individual.
As long as you keep an eye on the temperatures, everything is fine.
It saved me €600 in electricity, small amounts add up during house construction.

Doesn’t leasehold inevitably lead to maintenance backlog at some point? As soon as it’s inherited by the next generation, you start wondering whether investment XY still makes sense based on the remaining years, right?

Why? It’s your house after all. You’ll do it just like with any other property. Fortunately, we don’t live in a time when leased land necessarily reverts back. It’s more often extended. And you get the corresponding value if you don’t want it anymore. For a well-maintained house, that’s more than for a ruin.

where the contract still runs for about ~25 years or less, that was more like a "hmm, no, I think rather not" for us

That would roughly be my question too: Could you imagine buying a house without massive discounts with 15 years left on the contract? 10 years? 5 years? 1 year?

I definitely wouldn’t do that. I can imagine that you could then sign a new contract. However, then with different conditions. But actually, the houses are used up by then anyway. Leasehold is based on the age of the houses.

"Railway buys up land"

Oh dear, we have that problem here too! Well, not us, but in our area. ........... There are levers you can use if construction costs are too high: buy a small starter property, rebuild later semi-detached house on a smaller plot build smaller, omit unnecessary rooms, smaller plot buy a used house and renovate yourself forego this and that fancy stuff two-family house with rental build later build on communal land build on leasehold All of these have their justification for one or the other. Just because something isn’t an option for you or suitable doesn’t automatically mean it’s worse than what you have. It’s different and each of these enumerations can have advantages for others.